Month: August 2005
MIT's Jerk-O-Meter
Another week, another wacky invention from the much loved MIT media lab. Its recent highlights have been the Bluetooth Squirrel and the Mobile Phone Surveillance system, both of which are well on the way to giving the institute a reputation…
Did Microsoft invent the iPod?
Microsoft might not have entered a product of its own into the lucrative MP3 player market yet, but it seems that the megacorp is making fresh efforts to take its piece of the pie nonetheless. Actually it all gets a…
Logitech's Gaming Keyboard
Although Logitech has always released high calibre hardware, it was only recently that it set its sights on the gaming community with the launch of the MX 518 gaming mouse. Now in addition to other new gaming mice, the…
PSP movies aplenty
It turns out that one of the few benefits to Sony's enormous delay of the launch of the must-have PSP is that it has given plenty of time to get plenty of UMD movies on the shelves. In fact the…
Eye Toy: Kinetic unveiled
The Eye Toy: Kinetic, unveiled at this year's EIEF, is perhaps the most unusual angle that you could take Sony's Eye Toy in but one that really might work well and breath fresh life back into those old Eye Toy…
Today's top tech stories from the US
Five sizzling pieces of technology news from the good old US of A. Vaja i-volution Sony PSP Leather Case Review (I4U): So what benefits does a case almost as expensive as the PSP itself hold? microsoft wants a piece of…
Telewest announces 2Meg broadband for £17.99
Clearly Telewest doesn’t want to be left behind in the race for faster broadband. Earlier this week NTL announced it was launching 10Mbps broadband in 2006. Now Telewest is, somewhat predictably, upping its speeds (though not to 10 Meg yet). …
3 boasts first Sony Ericsson handset
Sony Ericsson's debut on the 3 network shows some really neat handset design. The K608i shows off the sleek styles that SE has built up a reputation for and also manages to slip 3G technology into a handset that weighs…
Naysayers put Nokia N90 in doubt
The Nokia N90 is perhaps one of the most eagerly awaited handsets of 2005. Billed as much as a camera as a phone the clamshell design handset takes 2.0 mega pixel images, features advanced Carl Zeiss optics (the first for…
Details of Cowon iAudio M5 emerge
Cowon has revealed some info on its HDD MP3 player that is the successor to Tech Digest favourite iAudio M3. The iAudio M5 also has the slim design that made the M3 standout and it weighs in at just 145g,…
