Tag: sports
Robopong – for the lonely table tennis enthusiast
Do you ever find yourself staring forlornly at the Ping Pong table in your garage at 3am? Wanting to bat a table tennis ball about, but feeling that it might be a bit antisocial to wake up your neighbor for a quick knockabout? It’s your lucky day. Robopong is a robot that’ll fire up to 200 table tennis balls at you. It’s heavily configurable – you can adjust the angle, speed and frequency of the barrage, and it comes with a remote control that lets you adjust these variables from the comfort of your side of the table…
Nokia celebrates move to personal navigation with mass sports sponsorship
Nokia has decided to mark the continued drive to put personal navigation and mapping applications on their mobile handsets by sponsoring a rash of sporting events this year.
Apparently, this sponsorship will show just how easy it is to enhance your day-to-day journeys by using Nokia’s navigation services…
Meet the British version of the Tesla Roadster: the Lightning GT sports car
We’ve been raving on about the Tesla Roadster in recent months, all the while unaware the Lightning GT was bobbing around on the surface as well.
British made, the luxury sports car is actually packing a whole heap of electric-powered goodness under the hood, including NanoSafe technology, which enables the batteries to hold 85% life after…
The UK Scout Association goes web 2.0 for their Kids Outdoors website
After discovering through the largest survey so far that children and teens are spending less time than ever outdoors, the Scout Association has brushed up on their web design skills and launched their Kids Outdoors Campaign today, complete with spiffy web 2.0 flourishes.
They’ve got videos! That you can upload and share yourself! Share your photos of your kids getting sporty! They’ve got blog posts! They’ve got a tag cloud! They’ve even got a little log-in section on the top right-hand side, so you know they know you know they know their stuff! It’s just a shame about the poo-green colour scheme.
Their aim is to raise £10million…
Maplin introduces Sporty Cam for recording the action on the piste
Apparently it’s going to snow in the UK later this week – so even if you’re not heading for the European slopes, you might get some use out of the Mini Pocket DV with Sporty Cam nearer to home.
Joost to enter live-streaming market early 2008
Now that Joost has opened the floodgates and are allowing minions in willy-nilly, they’ve announced a huge incentive for people to join up. From early 2008, they’ll be live-streaming TV in the US, as well as their usual pre-packaged video fare.
Sadly it looks like it’ll start out streaming sports first, and then hopefully enter the full-blown television…
GEAR4 launches five more cases for new iPod nano
One thing GEAR4 definitely do well is pump out cases for the new range of iPod. Following their ambitious claim to be first to market with accessories for the latest iPods, they've already released four cases, and are now…
The Lightning GT – an electric car you wouldn't be ashamed to be seen in
While electric car buffs are a bit busy getting excited about the upcoming Tesla Roadster, British based Lightning Car Company has come out with a blinding little sporty concept of its own.
The Lightning GT’s stats are amazing – 0-60 in four seconds…
Today on Tech Digest: TVonics Freeview recorder, Virgin Media sports news, Ask.com revamp and more…
THE BIG THREE Video review: TVonics DVR-250 Freeview recorder Virgin Media close to inking deal for sports news channel Review: Ask.com's revamped Ask3D search engine THE NEXT FIFTEEN Creative's miniature Zen Stone player now available in the UK Are dancing…
Virgin Media close to inking deal for sports news channel
The whole mess that is Virgin Media versus Sky is still rumbling on, but at least there could be some good news for Virgin Media’s sports fans.
It’s being reported that Virgin Media are likely to sign a deal in the next few weeks that will create a new sports news channel. The most likely partner is Setanta Sports, though this hasn’t been confirmed.
