Author: Katherine Hannaford
Shiny Video Review: The Zink inkless printer
I’m sure you know that printers aren’t the world’s most exciting tech product to review (although I’m sure Gary over at Idiot Toys would disagree), however when the video above is presented by perky, bubbly Zara, it makes for positively hilarious watching.
The Zink will retail for £99…
Shiny Vidcast: Georgia runs through the week's hot tech stories and products
It’s our very first vidcast, courtesy of Georgia, one of the two winners of our LG-sponsored competition. In the above vidcast, she runs through the week’s hottest tech stories, and shows us some very special gadgets, including the Pleo and some other kit they saw out at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month….
Quit waiting around for the hoverboard, jump on yesterday's dream technology today – MP4 video watches
MP4 watches! It’s basically the technology we thought we’d be using by now, back in 1996. “Imagine the day you can – how’s this for laughs, Doogie – watch video on your wristwatch! Oh man, imagine that! Porn on your wrist!”
Porn, indeed. Feast your eyes on these seven contraptions that will not only give your wrist a strange sweaty odor when you take it off each night, but allow you to watch MP4s on the move as well. Oh, and tell the time too I suppose…
1.) Firebox watch (top left) – with 2GB of storage capacity, not only can you watch movies on its 1.5″ 260K OLED screen, but also listen to MP3s and view photos. Charging is completed by plugging the watch into your USB slot on your PC, giving you eight hours of video playback. £59.95.
2.) Vavolo watch (middle left) – as with the Firebox watch, it’s got 2GB of memory, and allows for video playback and photo-viewing on the 128 x 128 pixel screen. MP3 and WMA playback is also a feature, as is digital recording. $99.99…
Put that dusty Apple floppy drive to use, make an amplifier mod outta it
Some bloke over at Hacked Gadgets has taken his hand out of his underpants, and put it to good use – making an amplifier out of an Apple floppy drive.
It shouldn’t come to too much expense, and you’ll be able to pick up a 5.25 floppy drive fairly easily from eBay or even your shed if you save relics from your IT past. Finally – a suitable way to…
Shiny Video Review: Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360
Our gaming man, Simon Munk, recently checked out Lost Odyssey, which came out a week ago on the Xbox 360. Take a look above for his thoughts on the RPG…
Over at SXSW, Lou Reed had a Perfect Day moaning about digital music
The curmudgeonly Lou Reed Walked On The Wild Side yesterday at the Texas SXSW conference about digital music, shocking no-one with his audiophilic opinions about how “technology is making things worse”. We always knew he was a moaner.
He went on, telling the audience of tech-savvy hanger-ons that “if you are one of those people like me who like ‘good sound,’ you need good speakers, a good stereo, and (as an artist) your price of recording goes up, because you need a good mic, good cables…If you don’t like good sound, go with MP3.” Ouch, Lou, you really do have a Rock And Roll Heart, eh?
According to Lou, “people have…
Shiny Video Review: external DVD drive from Brando, for the Eee PC
I recently wrote about the external DVD drive from Brando, which claims to work on the Eee PC, but at the same time only on Windows Vista, XP and 2000. Strange, I thought. So, I got one in from Hong Kong and put it to the test, which you can see above…
Acer's Gemstone Blue Aspire 6920 notebook features, yep, a Blu-ray drive…
Acer’s adding to their Gemstone series of laptop, with a cornily-named ‘Gemstone Blue’ model, or the Aspire 6920. Hmm, blue, I wonder why they called it blue…?
Oh, I see. It features a Blu-ray drive. How apt.
Available in 16″ and 18.4″ options, they have 16:9 1080p screens as you’d expect with a Blu-ray drive, 1.5Ghz Penryn processors, 320GB HDD, and 512MB NVIDIA 9650m GS graphics. Not forgetting the 6-in-1…
Colour your faucets crazy with the IWOOT glow flow tap
There’s a strange obsession here at Tech Digest, for taps with coloured LED lights. Yes, I don’t understand it either, but at least the diehard faucet fanboys can now rejoice that the UK market has not been left out of the lucrative affordable-coloured-taps world.
The above contraption turns your stream of water into a coloured ‘waterfall’ according to retailer I Want One Of Those, and due to the inbuilt temperature sensor, it changes between red and blue depending on whether your kids are wasting hot or cold water that hour.
At £14.99, you could afford…
Shiny Video Review: the best noise-cancelling headphones, from Sennheiser, Bose, JVC and Creative
I’ve been traipsing all over central London for you today, testing four pairs of noise-cancelling headphones, the HA-NC250 from JVC, some Bose Quiet Comfort 3 cans, the PXC-350 from Sennheiser, and finally, the Creative Aurvana X-Fi.
How do they fare on public transport in London? Check out the video above, where I test them on the tube, the overground train, a double decker bus, and walking around Piccadilly Circus. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I *did* say “King’s Cross St. Pancreas”. I am a doofus…
