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Sony XEL-1 OLED TV available in UK but cheaper to fly to America to get it
So after about a year or waiting, teasing and generally proving that theirs is the best, the Sony XEL-1 razor thin 11″ piece of OLED TV loveliness has finally hit the shops here in the UK.
The 3mm thick panel can be yours for just £3,489. One, two, three, hurray! Thanks Sony. Thanks for charging us in Europe well over the odds for something you can pick up in the States for $2,499 (£1754).
In fact, it would be cheaper to fly to New York City…
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Lucy plays backgammon on the LG KF300
It’s not all dream phones and gadgets you can’t afford in this, the Chinese New Year of the credit crunch ox. No. That’s why we sent Shiny Shiny‘s Lucy out to take the LG KF300 out for a spin, or the “Big Flipper” as she called it. Don’t ask…
TECHNOLOGY DEATHMATCH: Vodafone vs Orange vs 3 vs T-Mobile vs O2
With Mobile World Congress 2009 just around the corner, it’s very easy to get caught up in all the new, exciting and utterly misjudged handsets the manufacturers are set to unveil. But before you dive in to pick up your phone I urge you to take your time deciding which network you choose to subscribe to. After all, what use id your iPhone 3G if there’s only GPRS coverage down your road?
So, today on Technology Deathmatch, I move from hardware to software in the kind of sidestep to left you’d expect watching Knightmare only this time we’ve a much better chance of actually getting somewhere. So, without any further ado, it’s Vodafone vs Orange vs 3 vs T-Mobile vs 02…
Bob Turek's Body Stereo – speakers to steam up your specs
Detroit designer Bob Turek’s been focusing his work on “transforming the way we view the objects we make music with”. He also happens to have made a stereo from naked people and that’s what the Body Stereo is all about.
It’s easy to take his latest piece as titillation but actually I’d quite fancy having this 36″ x 18″ x 12″ audio art creation sitting on my shelf. I don’t suppose sound quality was the first thing…
Crunch Watch: Philips announces 6,000 job cut
Philips is the latest casualty in ongoing global meltdown or their employees are, more specifically, as the European tech giant announced 6,000 redundancies today.
The cuts come after the Dutch company released figures of their first quarterly loss in six years seeing profits sink to €1.47 billion in the red. That sounds like the kind of sum that could end all things Royal Philips Electronics but then given that this time last year they made about the same amount…
SHINY PREVIEW: the wonderfully waterproof Sanyo Xacti VPC-WH1 camcorder
Take one bucket of water, one Xacti VPC-WH1 camcorder, one blogger and you’ve got yourself a preview of just how well Sanyo’s waterproof video recorder works when submerged.
Hang on lads, I've got a solution – man solves the Italian Job cliffhanger, Tech Digest points out why it won't work
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a wonderful thing. I’m not sure how they decided it was within their remit to run a competition to solve the cliffhanger at the end of the Italian Job but I like to think it’s the sort of thing they ponder during their lunch breaks only.
Around 2,000 people put forward their solutions but it was a gentleman by the name of John Godwin, of Godalming, Surrey, who was named the winner and right after I’ve told his idea, I’ll explain why it just won’t work…
Dell Mini 10 hits the shelves courtesy of Tesco
Sneaky old Dell has done it again, although this time it was really Tesco that let the cat out of the bag with the launch of the expected Dell Mini 10 netbook.
The mobile computer, which according to the trusty old Dell pencil sits somewhere between the Minis 9 and 12, was slapped up in a product page on the supermarket mammoth’s website with a price tag attached for £349 or the same in…
Abeltech DPA-702 wireless security system – the MI6 of photoframes
Whether you want to use it as a baby monitor, for home security or just to spy on your housemates, the Abeltech DPA-702 wireless surveillance system looks like a lot of fun or at least a good way to make digital photoframes a hell of a lot more interesting.
The camera itself is not the highest of quality shooting 15fps at 480 x 240 or 24fps at 320 x 240 but then it’s probably best not to clog the 2.4GHz wireless transmitter…
Ray Flash hotshoe flash converter – turns a standard one point into a ring of fire
I hate flash photography, largely because it’s complicated and never gives me the results I’m after but also because it involves using very expensive equipment and that rather hurts after you’ve already shelled out on a heavy, expensive DSLR.
So, instead try something like the Ray Flash. It’s cheap, in photography terms…
