Month: July 2006
Virgin Digital's Music Download Starter Pack
Aimed very much at first-time downloaders, Virgin Digital's Music Download Starter Pack offers all the basics of music downloading – including the player, free downloads and basic instruction – all in one box. Each Starter Pack contains a digital…
Hot Pix and Kittens Eliminate Robots
You know those web site forms where you have to prove you are human and not some robotic program by reading crazy shaped or distorted letters and numbers and copy them into a box? Well, that's called Text Captcha…
Lock Your PC with the Matrix
There are various secure and very sensible ways to lock your PC when you are away from your desk but here's one Propellerhead has found for fans of The Matrix. This small system tray application, called Matrix Screen Locker…
iTrips to be legal by year end in UK?
Yes, we know they're for sale in the UK already – but the use of an iTrip (or similar variation) is still illegal in this country. However, that could change by the end of the year. The UK's communications…
SIM2 Grand Cinema HT305E DLP HD projector
We could play "guess the object", but the title gives it away. Yes, it’s a projector, or specifically, the SIM2 Grand Cinema HT305E DLP HD projector, which is featured over at HDTV UK. It’s a very stylish way to…
The I-Deck – an old-style gramophone dock for your iPod
Possibly the quirkiest iPod-related gadget I've seen in a long time is also one of the most mysterious, with litle known about the I-Deck except for its basic functionality and the name of its British designer – Michael Kennedy…
Rock offers free Wi-Fi access with The Cloud
We’ve covered The Cloud previously – it’s a Wi-Fi service based around several "hotzones" in the UK (usually populous city centres). And if you pick up a Rock PC, you can try for the service a month absolutely free….
Slipstreamz – safer listening on your bike
We recently featured the iBikeMount, a mount for fixing your iPod to your bike. The only problem with the unit and traditional earphones was the problem of traffic noise being blocked out as you cycled – not really very…
Go fishing with your iPod
If there’s one sport that I would never expect to enbrace technology, it would be fishing (or "angling" as it’s more formally known). But I’m wrong – fishing has entered the digital age this week as TV channel Discovery…
Ride-Em Robo
It's the one we've all been waiting for, the first rideable Robot, from the Korean company Robo 3. According to the RealTechNews report the company is also developing a girl robot and a veritable menagerie of animated creatures. The…
