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Tech Digest & Shiny Shiny at The Gadget Show Live 2009!
Ladies and gentlemen, gadgets girls and gadget guys, I’d like to announce that Tech Digest will be working with The Gadget Show as their online partner at The Gadget Show Live exhibition at the Birmingham NEC 17th-19th April 2009. Nice, eh?
So, what does this mean? Well, for one you get a chance to win FREE TICKETS here on TD. Secondly, it means that you won’t have to travel all the way to Vegas in January or Berlin in August any more if you want a gander and, more importantly, a first hand play with latest bits of kit the tech world has to offer.
Thirdly, and best of all, is that we’re not only going to be covering it left, right, centre, backwards, forwards and inside and out but also we, and the sisters from Shiny Shiny, will be running six live shows each day at the How To Theatre…
YouTube Video of the Week: motion controlled mp3 player – good gadget, great vid
I’m not sure I’d actually want a motion controlled mp3 player but I’d certainly like the skills to make one. I get the feeling it woudn’t be such a clever gadget on the move but I love the SD card loading…
SHINY PREVIEW: Philips 21:9 Cinema Super-Widescreen LCD
News of the Philips Cinema 21:9 TV splatted out onto the web about two weeks earlier than the Dutch masters would have liked, so the event yesterday afternoon was always going to be a little underwhelming. All the same, we sent Susi down to brave the canapes and bring us back what few extra details Philips were prepared to share, as well as a little footage of the sucker too.
RUMOUR: Dell entering the smartphone race next month
Before we get rolling on this one, I should say that I’m a little skeptical personally but men and women who spend their days stroking their beards and, well, whatever women stroke when they’re deep in thought, seem pretty convinced that Dell is going to get into mobiles from February.
In fact, it’s not just any beards and beardettes that think it to be true, it’s the top most hairy ones over at the Wall Street Journal and Engadget too, even though Dell has publicly said that they won’t be…
New use for old tech #1: Phone box aquarium
Come on. How many people use these things anyway? I can probably count the number of times I stepped into a payphone last year on one of the Venus de Milo’s hands and if I did happen to, it was probably to relieve myself.
Yes, I suppose some might consider me a snob with my monthly contract phone but even the most impoverished of PAYG users would probably get more out of their 50p to top up rather than putting it into the greedy old telephone box.
So, luckily, two French designers, Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino, have shown what we can do with these redundant street obstructions by turning one of them into an aquarium…
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Huawei E176 USB dongle – SIM-powered 7.2Mbps mobile broadband
For something I was a little nonplussed to read about when I first received the news, I’ve got to say I was mighty impressed with the Huawei E176 HSPA mobile broadband USB stick. It’s the kind of kit that makes up your mind about getting an unlimited data package on your phone…
RUMOUR: Olympus to launch two Micro Four Thirds cameras in March
Remember this? Well, it seems that the Olympus concept Micro Four Thirds camera wasn’t just a concept. Word is on the intertubes that it’s called the Olympus M-100 and it’s going to be launched in Las Vegas in March along with a second model known as the M-1.
No picture on the M-1 as yet but we’ve got specs on them both…
First PAYG BlackBerry in UK coming to Orange
Orange has announced they’re to be the first provider in the UK to launch a BlackBerry on PAYG.
It’s a surprisingly progressive move from a company I accused of showing no ambition just the other day and it’ll see the popular BlackBerry Pearl 8120 for sale at £145 with internet access at £5 per month. Hard to tell how long…
Super-thin Sony Bravia ZX1 ready for sale – Bravia EX1 & 200Hz Z4500 on shelf too
Now that I’ve booked my flights, hotel, planned my shopping and rid myself of the anger of the £3,489 Sony XEL-1 OLED from this morning, I can tell you about their other Bravia TVs that’ll be hitting the EU shortly.
Sony Bravia ZX1
First up is the super thin 9.9mm LCD Bravia ZX1 we saw at IFA in August last year. It’s the one pictured above.
As promised it’s a 40″ panel with a frame rate of…
Boston audio get serious with their Horizon i-DS3 iPod speaker system & wireless sub
I don’t much like iPod docks but I can’t resist high end audio, so I’m going to do the good thing and entirely smother that small voice of hatred inside me by referring to the Boston Horizon i-DS3 as an iPod speaker system. See, no mention of that other four letter word even though it has one on the top and the “i” at the beginning of the product name to indicate that that’s what its sole purpose is.
Fortunately, it becomes less and less dock-like (despite completely being one) the more you find out about it. Now, as nice as the image above is, it’s not the whole picture. I only chose it because it’s red. The real story lies after the jump where you can witness the additional subwoofer…
