Category: Wireless home
Wireless baby monitor
Here at Tech Digest we are huge fans of baby gadgets. We can't wait for the day when the broadband buggy complete with video screen and a 3G-powered web browser arrives. Until then we'll have to make do with devices…
Prismiq media player
Among the newcomers at this year's CES was a company called Prismiq. It paraded a $299 Media Player/Recorder that uses 802.11g to wirelessly transmit video in a home network. Uniquely it boasts software that enables consumers to record TV…
NTL launches broadband channel
A few years back, before the launch of broadband, BT and the big cable companies were hatching plans to deliver broadband web portals packed with exciting streams and downloads including music tracks, football highlights and interactive educational content. Nice…
New landline service targets BT customers
A new home phone landline service launched this week promising to deliver huge savings to BT customers. Swedish company Tele2 reckons customers switching to its service will pay 80% less than they would if they were using BT. Apparently consumers…
Bluetooth gets useful
So far we haven't taken too much notice of Bluetooth products. Apart from wireless links between PDAs and phones and cordless headsets, it seems a technology still waiting for a killer application. Well, there are products lined up for…
Wi-fi Hi-Fi from Digital Fidelity
Digital Fidelity has announced a wi-fi equipped music server that can be controlled anywhere in the home with a Dell PDA. Called the Hush AVX Music Centre, the company claims it runs much more quietly than other music servers…
'Proper' TV over the net from microsoft
microsoft boss Bill Gates has promised software that will deliver both 'standard' and 'high definition' television to consumers TV sets via broadband Internet connections. However the majority of Britons with broadband won't be able to tune in as their…
New PlayStation arrives
Six months after announcing it was to develop a souped-up version of the PlayStation Sony finally delievered the PSX to the world at the CEATEC exhibition in Chiba, Japan on Monday. Aimed at consumer electronics buyers rather than hardcore…
The Internet fridge is back!
Start saving for LG has exclusively revealed to Tech Digest that a new version of the near-legendary Internet fridge is heading for the stores in 2004. The original fridge was a huge American style cool box that featured a…
Hauppauge goes streaming
And here comes another streaming device. We saw it at IFA but didn't get round to writing about it. Still here it is as it is coming to the UK later this month. It is the Hauppauge Network Media…
