Month: June 2006
Evesham's new 20.1-inch HD-ready widescreen LCD TV for below £350
Evesham has introduced an HD-ready option for those on a budget – a 20.1-inch widescreen LCD TV. The set features a wide viewing angle of 140 degrees, along with a brightness of 300 cd/m, a contrast ratio of up…
Donate your spare computer (cycles) to climate change
Sound advice over at Hippyshopper about how you can help with the prediction of climate change. It's all to do with distributed computing – networking thousands of individual computers into one big hive computer. The BBC is asking you…
Motorola's Dolce & Gabbana-styled RAZR V3i now on sale
Previously featured on Tech Digest, this gold-coloured version of Motorola’s RAZR V3i clamshell handset, co-branded by Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana, is surely the must-have for the chav (or chavette) in your life. And now they can have…
Freeware Picture Compression Viewer
If you regularly need to change the compression settings on your JPEG picture files, so you can send them in emails or use them web pages, for example, then you know it can be difficult to quickly see what…
EU Tax on Emails and Text Messages
A tax on emails and SMS text messages has been floated once or twice in the past but now the Eurocrats seem taking the matter a bit more seriously by setting up a EU Parliament Working Group, chaired by French…
Microsoft's OneCare security packages launches
Microsoft has now officially launched its OneCare security product in the US, with other territories set to follow. The product brings anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall programs into one package for the equivalent of £26.50 per year to cover up…
Are gadgets leading to teen obesity?
Apparently our kids aren't healthy – and technology's to blame. That's according to new research from the British Dietetic Association, which claims that British teens spend two and a half months every year in front of a TV, PC,…
LG's "cutting edge" washing machine with designer looks
There’s so many challenges in our world today, but rest assured, LG is on the case for at least one of them – to create a washing machine that isn’t a plain colour. And thankfully, in conjunction with the…
GEAR4's ProControl – use your iPod through your TV or home stereo
Another gadget to use with iPod in your living room – this time from GEAR4, which has introduced the ProControl, an AV connection kit for the iPod that syncs, charges and links your player to your TV or home…
Samsung's YP-U2 – the miniature MP3 player
Samsung has launched the YP-U2, a fairly budget addition to its MP3 player range with direct USB connectivity, not unlike Apple's shuffle. Samsung quite rightly point out that the direct USB plug eliminates the need for cables, with the…
