Author: Katherine Hannaford
Samsung announces their 10.2-megapixel L210 digital camera
Not too much information about this point and clicker from Samsung, but it had me at ‘oooh that’s a nice shade of red’.
Yes, sometimes it’s as easy as that to impress me. With a 10.2-megapixel sensor and ISO of 1600, it has a 3x optical zoom which doesn’t particularly thrill, plus the all-important Digital Image Stabilisation, Intelligent Face Recogntion, and a…
LG announces BE06LU10 external Blu-ray rewriter and HD DVD-ROM drive
LG’s mobile phone department may be going from strength to strength, but with their recent announcement that they won’t be giving up on the HD DVD format, the situation on that side of the company will be going through some tough times in the coming months.
The Korean giant is putting its money where its mouth is, with the release of the BE06LU10, an external Blu-ray rewriter and HD DVD-ROM. With read speeds of 6x for both HD DVD and Blu-ray, it also…
LG eyes up the world's fourth-largest mobile phone manufacturer title
The situation at Motorola may be dire, however over at LG’s headquarters in South Korea, they’re popping bottles of bubbly and blowing on party-streamers like they’ve just won the jackpot.
Which they have, to a certain extent – it looks likely that the company is set to become the world’s fourth biggest handset manufacturer, due to successes like the Prada and Viewty handsets of last year, the latter selling one million units. They’re…
Shiny Video Preview: Sony Ericsson G700 and G900 mobile phones
The other week I showed you a couple of handsets from Sony Ericsson, which were non-working prototypes. Today, I’ve got another couple similar ones, the G700 and G900, which will be out within the next few months…
Sony's MEX-BT3600U in-car CD tuner stereo system will let you roll with your homies in style
Sony has rolled out a new in-car CD tuner, the MEX-BT3600U, which’ll let you play from a USB-enabled MP3 player, stream your choons via a Bluetooth compatible Walkman jobbie, or play from one of those roundy silver shiny discs you have littering the floor of your car. Remember those?
In addition to those features, it can also be used as a Bluetooth headset of some description, with Bluetooth-enabled handsets allowing for hands-free calls via the microphone on the head unit’s front panel.
Controversially, the MEX-BT3600U…
With nine valves and four line-inputs, the Fatman iTube 452 amplifier will impress even your deaf neighbour
I know there’s a rich pool of valve amp fanzoids out there which will be delighted to hear Fatman has added another model to the archives, the iTube 452 stereo amplifier.
Priced at £1,499, it’s distinctly more expensive than their predecessors, but with the nine valves and four line-inputs, you’re definitely getting more orange-glow for your buck. There’s 45 watts of power per channel on the iTube 452, and whilst it may have a ubiquitous lowercase ‘i’ in the model name, when hooked up to a CD player the quality promises to be richer and deeper than before…
Pour your own beer from your kitchen cupboard, with this CDA beer dispenser
One for the blokes, or just anyone that enjoys a good pint of yeast, this beer dispenser from CDA can be installed in any standard kitchen cupboard, perhaps under the sink, instead of those useless spray-bottles of Cif. Who needs cleaning products, anyway?
It’s 60cm tall, and illuminates your midnight beer-pouring antics with its soft blue LED glow. Included in the kit is a CO² cylinder, along with a keg adaptor, temperature gauge and pressure gauge. What’s not included is Berocca, which you’ll be needing the morning after, let me assure you. It costs £1,155…
Call Oliver's Army! Elvis Costello is shunning the CD and favouring the vinyl/digital download method
Cor, speaking of craggy musicians with plentiful ear hair, Elvis Costello hasn’t gone quite as far as Billy Corgan with his next musical release, but his announcement regarding Momofuku is still a lot more radical than his conforming peers’ business models.
His first album since 2004 will be released only on vinyl, ignoring the popular yet slightly defunct CD format, and will contain a code which’ll allow for a digital download of the album…
Shiny Video Preview: Philips' range of Sonicare toothbrushes
Toothbrushes. They’re not exacty the most interesting technology around, but when Susi clapped her eyes on these new Sonicare electronic models from Philips, it was enough for her to melt into a puddle of quivering goo. Check them out in the video above, and if you fancy any of those germ-busters, your toothy-pegs will be looking…
Shiny Video Preview: Philips' GoGear range of MP3 players
You just saw Susi taking a look at the Design Collection of TVs from Philips, now how about the GoGear MP3 player range? I mentioned one of them, the SA52, the other day which has 4GB of storage and can play…
