Category: Wireless home
Wi-Fi LCD TV from Philips
The Philips 23iF9946 is a 23" LCD screen sporting a 400:1 contrast ratio, 450cd/m2 brightness and 176 degree viewing angle, it also has a built in FM tuner . However, though this little telly might appear ordinary, it also boasts…
The Bluephone from BT
Face it, most of us are never more than 3 feet away from our mobis at any one time and if it wasn't for the few pounds saved,we'd probably do without landline phones entirely. Realizing this, BT started work on…
LG's 'Revolutionary' X-Wave enhanced TVs
Ah, the blissful feeling of having your new LG Flat-Screen TV taking its pride-of-place opposite the sofa… What the #%?! You’ve forgotten to wire it into the sound system! No matter, this LG 21" or 29" TV has the new…
PC sofa for lovers
Fancy cuddling up to your loved one while divvying around with your expenses docs? No me neither, but for those who really can't bear to be parted from their significant others for more than just a second, Bluebroc has…
microsoft short on CES news
Each year CES's curtain raiser features microsoft CEO Bill Gates and assorted celebrity guests, rally the troops with some big predictions for the New Year a rash of product announcements. While this year Gates had plenty of good news…
Philips wireless music system
Philips is taking a shot at the multi-room audio server system market with its Wireless Music Centre system. Set to launch in April the apparently easy to install solution includes a main unit with a 40 Gigabyte hard disk…
Multi-room iPods
CES witnessed a couple of neat innovations from Sonance, the company which has probably more than any other worked the hardest to integrate the Apple iPod into multi room home audio systems. Last year the company unveiled the iPort,…
Internet phone calls from your normal phone
Actiontec is touting something called the Internet Phone Wizard which apparently enables your existing landline to make and receive those free internet phone calls via Skype Technologies. Previously you would have needed two separate phones. The company claims that the…
Philips gets into the PC market
More signs of convergence in the home computing/home entertainment market. Philips has gone and released a home computer in association with Dixons. Apparently, it’s "a further step forward in realising [Philips’] Connected Planet vision" which sounds like something a…
Home Cinema goes wireless
Philips' Connected Planet range, originally shown back in January at CES, will be arriving in the UK next month. The products form a home entertainment system that can communicate wirelessly with your PC, allowing you to send content over from…