Category: Features
REVIEW: Rocketfish Rocketboost Wireless HD Audio Starter Kit
Home cinema kits are all well and good for delivering that booming Hollywood sound, but they also cause more headaches than they're sometimes worth when it comes to leaving lengthy trails of unsightly wires around the room as you try to set up rear surround speakers. This Best Buy exclusive, the Rocketfish Rocketboost Wireless HD Audio Starter Kit, may however have an affordable answer to your wireless speaker woes.
IFA 2011 Best in Show video round-up
The annual IFA tech show in Berlin has come to a close for yet another year, after bringing plenty brand new gadgets and gizmos to the table to start saving for. It's a massive show, packed with everything from…
REVIEW: iRobot Roomba 780 robot vacuum cleaner
The future promised a lot, and while robot butlers and hovercars are still pipe-dreams, robot vacuum cleaners are very much a reality. Hot on the heels of its IFA 2011 unveiling, Tech Digest got to spend some quality time with our very own clean-freak R2D2, the iRobot Roomba 780 vacuum cleaner. Read on to see whether or not it's time to send the Dyson to the dumpster.
INTERVIEW: Electro legend Jean-Michel Jarre on his 11ft AeroDream iPad dock
Tech Digest got a little starstruck at this year's IFA 2011 conference, as we got to meet electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre. The electro star's presence caused quite a stir at the show, not least of all thanks to…
REVIEW: ViewSonic V3D245 3D monitor
Like it or loathe it, it seems 3D is here to stay, be that on your living room TV, your local cinema screen or even in your pocket on a mobile device. 3D's near-imminent ubiquity even extends to the office, with 3D an increasingly common feature of the latest PC monitors. Just like all other 3D gadgets though, 3D monitors can be a pain to set up with multiple compatible devices needed, as well as needing a fair amount of cash to being with. ViewSonic's latest offering, theV3D245, aims at both affordability and ease of use with it's built in Nvidia 3D Vision transmitter and accompanying glasses. But is it any good?
Skylanders and Tatty Puppy: Toys and videogames on a collision course this Christmas
In many households, video games have become the natural successors to traditional toys. With gaming hardware becoming ever more advanced, the corners of our childhood imaginations that previously could not be matched by a videogame can now be brought…
Another tech titan departs: Anna Leach bids farewell to Shiny Shiny
Forget Steve Jobs's resignation; the real news over at Shiny Towers today is that we bid a sad farewell to Anna Leach, long-time editor of Tech Digest's web sibling ShinyShiny.tv. After resisting its advances for what must have felt…
Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO
Steve Jobs has resigned from his role as Apple CEO, handing the position over to current COO Tim Cook. Jobs now takes the position of chairman of the board, following a lengthy period of leave due to health reasons. "I…
REVIEW: Orbitsound T12 v3 soundbar
UK audio specialists Orbitsound return with their latest re-vamped T12 Soundbar, the T12 v3. Have they perfected the "spatial stereo" wizadry to kill off audio sweet-spots for good? Read on to find out.
VIDEO PREVIEW: BlackBerry Curve 9360 hands-on
We get hands-on with the super-slim BlackBerry Curve 9630 at today's exclusive London launch event. Can this QWERTY-packing, BlackBerry OS 7 touting handset bring RIM back from the brink? For more info on the BlackBerry Curve 9360, and a…