Month: September 2006
YouTube Video of the Day – Disco Dancing, Finnish Geriatric Style
Holy mother of Jeebus… what happens when you let two old people loose on telly to teach the world how to Disco dance? Well, you get a dry delivery, and a pair of coffin dodgers prancing around to some expertly…
Sony to introduce e-book reader and online store
Sony will launch its Portable Reader System PRS-50 e-book reader in the US during October, alongside an online digital book store with some 10,000 DRM-protected titles for purchase and use on the machine. Whilst specs are sketchy at present, it…
iZak – a portable media device for movies and music
Another new portable media device on the market, this time it’s iZak, a PC and Mac-friendly device that stores your music, movie and data files to view on any TV. Available as a 40GB or 80GB drive, iZak connects…
Gya – memory and reflex games from a meteorite
Big in Japan and threatening to be big over here this Christmas is Gya – a meteorite-shaped gadget that test your memory and your reflexes. The story of Gya (Japanese for "scream") is typically far-fetched – "a meteorite has…
Buffalo offers secure backup with Drivestation Duo drives up to 1.5TB
Buffalo Technology has launched its DriveStation Duo USB 2.0/FireWire external hard drive, with capacities of 500GB, 800GB, 1.0TB and 1.5TB. It’s the first Buffalo storage device to feature both FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces. It incorporates configurable RAID…
Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger become one
Good news if you use Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger and have friends on the other service – you can now contact them directly after the companies announced an agreement of interoperability, creating the world’s largest IM network…
Holy cosplay, Batman! It's a tailor-made Batgirl costume on eBay!
Been invited to a Batman fancy-dress party, and can't find a thing to wear? It's a common problem, as you can imagine. You get down to the local costume shop to find they've only got one Joker outfit left,…
T-Mobile offers Motorola KRZR K1 and exclusive champagne Samsung E870
Two new mobiles available from T-Mobile in the UK – the Motorola KRZR K1 and the Samsung E870 in an exclusive champagne colour. First up is the KRZR K1, previewed here back in July and offered by T-Mobile with…
Sony launches stylish VAIO C-Series – colour co-ordinated notebooks
Never mind the specification, the new Sony Vaio C-Series is all about looks, with the notebook available in a choice of colours, along with matching designer bags. There are five colours to choose from "to complement your style and…
New E-Card Scam Threat
If you get any emails purporting to contain an ‘E-Card’, most probably from an admiring female, think very hard about clicking on it, better still just delete it. Obviously it’s a scam since you’ve never heard of the person…
