Month: September 2009
Are these the iPod Touch G3 and nano G5?
However CNET Australia's editors have since back tracked a little and wonders that they might be fake. Well we'll know soon enough. Whoever is responsible hasn't forgotten to add the cameras…
Big plans for next gen COOL-ER ereader
While the COOL-ER is light, skinny and easy to use and quite the equal of its small group of direct rivals, the ereader market is about to get a lot hotter.
Pets Eye View – a camera for your dog or cat's collar
The Pets Eye View Camera is a very small snapper that takes 640×480 pics and is designed to be attached to your moggy or hound's collar.
Top five Apple iPod/iPhone Rock and Roll event rumours
You can bet Apple's press announcement tonight is much more about technology, product evolution and branding than hairy blokes with guitars. Still nevertheless with a few hours to go the jury is out on whether tonight will be like The Smiths reforming and playing Wembley or a Chas and Dave reunion gig in your local pub.
What happens when you mate an umbrella with a light saber
It is basically your bog standard Mary Poppins style brolly, but with one key difference – the central shaft is a mini light saber.
Leave video messages on your fridge with the Digital Video Memo
You plonk in it on your fridge and then when you want your partner to feed the dog/buy milk/break down forever as you have run off with the milkman etc you leave a short video message.
IWOOT brings Ion's iProfile vinyl to iPod turntable to the UK
The turntable is basically a step on from the USB turntable of yore – the key differences is that it cuts out the PC. So users plonk their iPod/iPhone in the slot, start playing the record and the device converts the record's sounds into MP3 audio files.
Palm announces Pixi – but bet we don't see it in the UK
The phone itself is a chocolate bar style handset that is apparently Palm's thinnest so far. Its feature line up – two mega pixel camera, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphones socket, 2.63inch touch screen – suggest this is aimed more at consumers rather than corporates. It does however keep the full QWERTY keypad of the Pre.
LG goes Android too – the Etna handset spotted in Berlin
Apparently it is a low-end handset, which pits it nicely against yesterday's Android handset the HTC Tattoo, and features a QWERTY keypad, a 5 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth and a three inch screen.
Beatles on iTunes – are you really that bothered?
I am guessing that anyone who has an iPod probably likes music and viz a viz probably has at least a few of The Beatles albums in their collection on CD. Ok, so iTunes might be good for grabbing a few of the good tracks from the weaker albums like Beatles for Sale, but really is this big event – don't think so.
