Category: Top stories
Italdesign's Batmobile-apeing VAD.HO concept car
Lordy! Would you look at the VAD.HO concept car, which is being shown off at this week’s Geneva Motor Show? It uses drive-by-wire joystick controls, and has video screens at the front and rear to show Angelina Jolie DVDs important information.
Buy music downloads direct from the bands you love
Well, this is the theory, anyway. In practice, Pedlr is more for the unsigned bands who you might love, if only you had a way to buy their songs, rather than just hit repeat on their MySpace player.
Inch Perfect: the vibrator that's made to measure
I don't have to tell you why Inch Perfect is different to your average sex toy – check the pic. It's got markings representing an imperial AND metric ruler, which retailer LoveHoney says will give you an accurate measurement of…
Sony's GDC PS3 speech leaks… allegedly
Eavesdroppers, huh? What are they good for? Well, finding out secret-squirrel stuff about games consoles for starters. GameDrift reports on a mole who listened in on Sony's Phil Harrison rehearsing for his GDC speech this week, in which he's expected…
Is Microsoft's 150MB limit for Xbox Live Arcade games a bad idea?
Bigger is better. More is marvellous. Larger is lovely. This, at least, has been the attitude traditionally adopted by game developers, who as soon as they're given more processing power, better graphics and more spacious storage media, rush to make…
BSkyB v Virgin Media: What the Blogosphere is saying
It's great fun when media moguls go to war. Well, great fun for everyone except us consumers. At least, that's the case in the current stand-off between Virgin Media and BSkyB, where a squabble over how much Virgin should pay…
Virgin Media versus BSkyB: 'supercomplaint', compensation, ratings
The war between Murdoch's Sky and Branson's Virgin Media continues to rumble on, and (unsurprisingly) consumers are the ones most suffering. Sky pulled a number of their most popular channels from Virgin Media last week after Virgin refused to pay…
Transformers: Optimus Prime voice-changing helmet
Cor. And, indeed, lumme. If you've been expecting all manner of marvellous merchandise to come out alongside the Transformers movie this summer… well, you won't be disappointed. Check out this Optimus Prime voice-changing helmet, which when worn converts your dulcet…
Top 10 gadgets that are due a revival (Nos 1 to 5)
What with the Walkman duking it out with modern-day brands like the iPod, it seems timely to spotlight some other retro gadgets that could make an impact in 2007. In the world of consumer technology, 'retro' tends to just mean…
Does the Walkman brand still hit the right notes with consumers?
Stuart Dredge writes… Once upon a time, Sony's Walkman was the most powerful music technology brand in the world. Everyone knew what a Walkman was, it was one of the most desirable and fashionable devices around, and it arguably changed…
