Author: Stuart Dredge
Onkyo launches LS-V501 one-box home cinema system
It’s about time I upgraded my home cinema system. The Betamax player is beginning to show its age, and as for the black-and-white telly… Anyway, one solution is Onkyo’s new LS-V501, a one-box 2.1-channel DVD receiver/speaker system.
WIN! A video blogging internship at Shiny Media via the LG Video Media Talent Award
Shiny Media is the publisher of Tech Digest, and is a bally nice place to work. And no, I’m not being paid to say that. Well, I am, but you know what I mean. Anyway, the point is, would you like a chance to work at Shiny Media too?
Coke teams up with Joost for Web TV widget
Exciting news if you’re a Joost user: you can now send clips from the Telly 2.0 service’s channels to friends. But weirdly, Joost has teamed up with Coca-Cola to do it.
Brunton SolarRoll charges your gadgets using solar power alone
Solar power is The Future when it comes to charging up gadgets. If only so us poor geeks don’t need an entire drawer bulging with different plugs and chargers for all our devices. And while it’s early days, Brunton’s SolarRoll is a glimpse at that glorious future.
Swarovski Mickey Mouse MP3 player ramps up the tack factor
You can’t keep a good mouse down, especially if he could be a bit more bling. We’ve written about iRiver’s Mickey Mouse MP3 player before, which has been extremely popular in Asia. Now the company is following it up with an even more bling model.
Having your own DNA Portrait is cool, but is it art? (Clue: yes)
Wouldn’t it be great to have your living room wall adorned with your very own DNA. No, I don’t mean weeing on it or daubing your name in blood. I’m talking about the bespoke DNA portraits produced by a firm called DNA 11.
Wolfking Warrior Xxtreme keyboard is just scary
Yikes! I haven’t been this afeared of a keyboard since the time I saw that health & safety video about exactly how many nasty bacteria are lurking under my QWERTY keys. Not that bacteria would even dare venture onto Wolfking’s Warrior Xxtreme keyboard, which is pictured above.
eStarling launches connected photo frame with its own email address
Korean firm eStarling has launched an eight-inch photo frame with 128MB of internal memory, Wi-Fi for transferring your snapshots on, and a screen resolution of 800×600 pixels. That’s not the interesting part though.
Amazon Kindle e-book reader: it's official!
Amazon has finally announced its Kindle e-book reader, via a front-page story in Newsweek magazine, which is (possibly) an ironic comment on print not being dead after all, at least not if you want a friendly puff-piece for your new gadget.
Buy the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Grail on eBay
No matter how many bleeding-edge zeitgeist-hugging startup ideas I come up with, nobody’s prepared to throw several million quid at me to make them a Google-sized success. If only there was some elixir of webbyness that I could drink to improve my chances of becoming a Web 2.0 millionaire… And lo! There is! Someone’s selling the ‘Web 2.0 Grail’ on eBay, which should be just the thing…
