Category: Wireless home
One Minute Video Review: Philips Living Colours
Philips showed off some concept designs this week at their Sense and Simplicity event, as well as some products which will be released soon. This is their Living Colours product, which promises to transform the ambience of your house through…
One Minute Video Review: Parrot Photo Viewer
I took a look at the Parrot Photo Viewer, which is designed to display photos from your phone or other Bluetooth equipped photo device. You can pick on up for £150 here. …
Sonos adds musical alarms and improved internet radio to its wireless music systems
We've covered Sonos a number of times in the past. It's a music system that hooks up to amplified devices in any room of the house, allowing streaming of your music to each device from your PC or any…
Yay or Nay: Apple "iTV"
Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's plans for superiority over your living room TV by telling us that "iTV" (work in progress on the name) will be available from early next year. Yay or Nay to the iTV? Is iTV, coupled wirelessly…
Apple's grand plans: iTunes, movies, iTV, home entertainment Appleised…
Steve Jobs delivered a speech yesterday that initially sounded like a basic product and software update but became a glimpse at Apple's plans for moving into the living room. Here's the highlights: iTunes 7 We expected an upgrade to the…
Solwise HomePlug Ethernet Adaptor – home networking through your home wiring
Solwise has introduced the HomePlug Ethernet Adaptor, which streams a home network over your home wiring, with speeds up to 200Mbps. The HomePlug Adaptor can support full multimedia home networking throughout the whole house including simultaneous High Definition (HD)…
Friday interview: HP Labs' Huw Robson on how Memory Spots will revolutionise your digital media habits
Tech Digest first wrote about HP’s Memory Spot technology in July, when it was announced. It’s basically a tiny piece of silicon that holds megabytes of data, and can be wirelessly interacted with using a special read-write device. It’s…
Monday interview: Amino's Mike Leigh on taking Internet TV back to the living room
In some ways, YouTube is just a big melting pot of stuff you've already seen on normal TV. I spent 20 minutes in tears of laughter at a succession of 'animal falls off furniture' clips last week (yes, I…
IFA 2006: Philips' second generation wireless hi-fi – the WACS7000
Being a sad old music lover with a huge pile of CDs I was naturally the core target market for Philips WACS700 wireless music center which debuted last year. Although I thought it worked well, I had a few…
IFA 2006: Daewoo plan for wireless high-def TV
A whole host of manufacturers have recently been teaming up with MetaLink, a company that specialise in wireless media streaming technology based on the draft 802.11n specification – the next generation, higher-bandwidth wi-fi that should have sufficient capacity to stream…
