Tag: tech Digest
Shiny Video Review: Scandyna's Micropod and Drop speakers
Alex and I pop on some Tears For Fears and listen to the audio quality of these new Scandyna products, the Micropod and Drop models…
Shiny Video Review: Logitech MX Air surface-to-air mouse
Susi’s love-affair with ultra-clever mice continues as Logitech bring us a mouse that works as well in the air as it does on the desktop…
CNN taking presidential debates to YouTube
The new CNN Debates channel is up on YouTube right now, letting you (if you’re American, presumably) put questions to the current US presidential candidates in video format.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi of Rez and Lumines creates Virtual Tokyo for Second Life
The other week I mentioned briefly in our Daily Tech Hotlinks that Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the creator of games such as Lumines and Rez, is developing a Virtual Tokyo for Second Life. Anyone familiar with his work will know he’s an UTTER genius and probably deserves the Japanese equivalent of a Knighthood. Which is probably something similar to a special limited edition Hello Kitty figurine or appearance in a hentai cartoon.
Anyway, Famitsu, that gaming bible only the Japanese are privy to, announce recently…
Shiny Video Interview: Kat chats to Richard Warmsley, Head of Internet on the Move at T-Mobile UK
Last Thursday I grabbed a few minutes to chat with Richard Warmsley, Head of Internet on the Move at T-Mobile UK, about their Web ‘n Walk, Music Jukebox and other services available to customers. And also to tease him about his straight-to-the-point job title. Hey, it’s better than Communications Manager, non?…
Hello, Hello Kitty Robo
If no one else understands you, Hello Kitty Robo might be able to help. It has a microphone for listening to your crazed whispers, plus, being a dependable robot, it won’t then post all your secrets to the internet.
Kitty has stereo cameras for face recognition, so hopefully it can see when you’re crying and rotate one of its moving arms to attempt something approaching a reassuring hug…
YouTube Video of the Day – Once Upon A Time In The Woods
This is a great little rotoscoped animation created by Ben Arthur featuring his little brother in an unscripted piece about his former life. Sounds weird but it’s actually fantastic. Things like this is the very reason why YouTube is a great idea.
Shiny Video Review: The Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Sony PSP pitted against one another
I somehow managed to twist Gary Cutlack’s arm and forced him into his video debut for Tech Digest. If you’re a fan of his gaming-related rantings over at UK Resistance and gadgets…
A "high concept" media player
Of course, in the tech blogging scene, “high concept” is slang for “practically unusable and very unlikely to ever come out this side of Korea”.
This high-concept MP3 player from Chinese designer Can-Hong Huang (yes he can!) is torch-like in design…
