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Apple unveils new faster, sleeker iMacs
Apple has launched its new range of iMacs, dropping the 17 inch model and focusing on the 20 and 24 inch screen sizes.
The white surround of the last Core 2 Duo iMac has been replaced with ‘professional’ aluminium and glass enclosures. It now boasts up to a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo chip, 500GB hard drive, 8x speed double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory, and iSight camera.
The virtual worlds of the future will be built on LIES
Gary Cutlack writes…
There’s a particularly infuriating story up on The Register at the moment, in which virtual world ‘visionaries’ make things up about the future.
Some man reckons that within ten years, something a bit like Second Life will “dwarf the web” and offer an experience that requires “hundreds of millions” of computers to keep it running.
Opinion: Don't bring back Tomorrow's World – it was RUBBISH!
Stuart Dredge writes…
The BBC has moved quickly to deny rumours that it’s planning to revive Tomorrow’s World, its science show that ran for 38 years before being mercifully put out of its misery in 2003.
Nokia launches Prism collection with Nokia 7900 and 7500
Nokia has launched its Prism collection – handsets aimed at ‘style-conscious’ folk who perhaps value looks over specification.
Win a Doctor Who R/C Dalek Battle Pack from Prezzybox and Tech Digest!
Yup, we’ve teamed up with Prezzybox, the online gift boutique, to hand out one Dalek battle pack to a lucky Tech Digest winner.
You can ‘seek’, ‘locate’ and ‘annihilate’ to your heart’s content with the remote control Dalek, and aim your weapon at an opponent’s Dalek’s Infrared sensor and ‘exterminate…exterminate!’ When hit five times, the Dalek will scream ‘ARGH!’ and an explosion will be heard…
Adidas rumoured to be teaming up with Samsung for sports phone
It’s apparently called the SGH-F110, and will be an Adidas-branded mobile with a heart-rate monitor linked to its music-playing application, allowing it to blast Napalm Death at you if you AREN’T TRAINING HARD ENOUGH YOU LAZY LITTLE MAGGOT! Or something.
Sony's three-in-one VHS/DVD recorder with HDMI set on sale
Sneaking out under the radar from Sony is this three-in-one VHS/DVD recorder, which saves a bit of space and cabling by allowing you to transfer VHS recordings to DVD with a touch of a button.
Shiny Video Review: Myvu Personal Media Viewer for iPod
Alex whips off her specs and is transformed into an ice-cool comic book superhero. In her imagination. She also tests out some space-age specs that broadcast small screen iPod videos on a virtual big screen…
Opinion: Panorama fight video expose proves the web needs policing
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
It takes a lot to shock me and I thought – having worked on and with the internet for the past seven years – that I knew the majority of its positives and negatives. But I’m truly appalled by BBC1’s Panorama investigation into real-life violent videos uploaded onto the web.
Shown on the channel last night, reporters looked at the people who film the sickening scenes, those who have fallen prey to the stupidly named “happy-slapping” attacks (do you see the victims smiling?) and it also focused on the firms allowing such videos to be shown to millions of cyberspace viewers…
The 101 best Facebook applications in the world today
Facebook applications are the best thing since MySpace widgets sliced bread, as any fule kno. What’s more, they’re mushrooming by the day, as companies and individual developers alike catch on to the potential of having their content splashed over (potentially) millions of Facebook profiles.
