Tag: Home
The Wattson tells you how much electricity you're wasting, Sherlock Holmes
This pretty purple product isn’t designed to just sit on your shelf, glowing away ambiently like there’s no tomorrow, it actually has a very noble place within the household. It can lower your bills, gasp!
The Wattson from DIY Kyoto lets you see into the future, telling you how much your electricity bill will come to if you continue using the same amount of energy, and glows purple if you’re doing well, but…
Velodyne's MicroVee subwoofer – careful you don't lose it!
It may look like a minimal foot pouffe from a suitably-wanky Shoreditch boutique specialising in Art Deco furniture, but believe it or not, that little black box is actually a subwoofer. As you probably would’ve garnered from, err, the title of this post.
The MicroVee subwoofer from Velodyne measures just 9″ x 9″ x 9.6″, but that doesn’t mean the sound…
IEC's vision for home appliance communications: it's good to have a talking washing machine
IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) has developed a new specification designed to allow various networked home appliances to communicate with one another, and with you. The complicatedly-named Home Network Communication Protocol over IP for Multimedia Household Appliances specification really boils…
Rumour: PS3 Home virtual world set for 11th October launch
Sony’s Home virtual world is still one of the more intriguing aspects of PS3, in that it could turn out to be a monster success or an utter flop. Which in my view makes it a brave and laudable thing to launch. Not that it’s launched yet: Home is still in beta.
However, Sony’s latest release dates announcement has Home pegged in for a “tentative” release date of 11th October on the PlayStation Network. The beta must have gone well, because that fits in with Sony’s original roadmap for its virtual world.
Denon DN-HC4500 promises DJ's intuitive performances from digitally-stored music
With the rise in music being stored digitally on MP3 players and computer hard drives, Denon has launched its DN-HC4500 DJ computer performance controller, designed to enable both professional and bedroom DJs to get a more intuitive feel to their music mixing.
It’s a USB MIDI/audio interface and controller, offering low latency ASIO (highly important when working with live audio), and OS X Core Audio support. Audio wise, it features 24-bit processing, plus a USB 2.0 audio interface with 2-channel stereo output, and 44.1/48/96kHz sampling.
E3: PS3's Home virtual world gets mobile and social networking features
If you weren’t excited about Home, Sony’s Second Life-like virtual world for PS3… well, you should be now. At the company’s E3 press conference, Sony announced some killer new features for Home, including a mobile client, and social networking elements.
2007 Tech Trends No. 4: Virtual Reality
Fourth in a series of posts highlighting Tech Digest’s pick of big technology trends for the second half of 2007…
Sadly, old-skool virtual reality isn’t going to make a comeback anytime soon, despite the joys of heading down the arcade to put on a big visor and flail about while a sniggering crowd looks on.
Denon launches iPod-friendly S-81DAB stereo system
Denon has a new compact stereo system on the market – the S-81DAB stereo system – with an ease of use aimed at the family and full iPod integration as standard. The system has been specifically designed to be…
