Gizmodo: Kevin Christley—Night before last was the annual CES Unveiled, a press-only party where journalists got a preview of the best of the upcoming products featured in the show as well as the winners of the Innovations 2005. The room was a bit small, but there were plenty of interesting finds, if you could squeeze past the huge crowd. AMD […]
CES Unveiled
Coca Cola’s New Clothes
PSFK: We love watching Coca-Cola grapple with what it considers a ‘health’ trend, one they reckon they missed the first time around. After we found out that C2 was dropped from launch in the UK we were surprised to find out about “Wellness from Coca-Cola” – a new line of “healthy drinks” popular in Japan. They’re stylish and feature exotic […]
Art
Trendsetters: If you need more evidence that art is hot, you need look no further than last week’s Art Basel Miami Beach show, which attracted an eclectic mix of collectors, artists and glitterati from all over the world to the already sizzling surroundings of South Beach. While the visceral appeal of art is always high, it has reached even greater […]
More Sega PC USB Controllers
Gizmodo: Sega has released more USB controllers for PCs, available in a variety of new colors, including the always sassy pink. I’ve never been a Sega controller man, myself, preferring the SNES pad on the whole, but I think it’s fantastic that companies continue to release controllers from years past, despite a wealth of conversion dongles that let you use […]
Top Technology Trends for 2005
Small Business Trends: The Death of Distance – “Telecommuters and remote workers are closing in. Recent improvements to enterprise voice-over-IP (VoIP) are promising to make the concept of location irrelevant.” The article points out that users of enterprise VoIP are finding out the cool things that can be done with it, not just the cost savings. Those cool things — […]
Vodafone To Encourage Customers To Shift To 3G Handsets
JapanToday: Vodafone KK President Shiro Tsuda said Wednesday the Japanese unit of British cell phone service company Vodafone Group PLC will encourage its customers to shift to third-generation handsets for faster data communications. “Vodafone will offer its last 2G handset next year and no more 2G later,” Tsuda said. Vodafone has lagged rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp in […]
Knomo Bags
Tech Digest: The fact that Knomo won Shiny Shiny’s Accessory award at our awards evening the other week (yes, we know we promised to stop banging on about them, but we lied) will give you a clue that we’re great fans of the bags. We’ve not actually covered them on Tech Digest yet, and since the company is promising to […]
Why Which? is wrong about 3G
Mobile Digest: If you’re looking to buy a 3G phone this Christmas, Which? would advise you otherwise. The company has pronounced 3G not suitable for human consumption since there are too many problems with network coverage. The bulkiness of 3G handsets was also given as a reason to ignore 3G and stick to smaller, more reliable 2G handsets. Thing is, […]
Alienware Area-51m 7700 Reviewed
Gizmodo: Alienware machines are overpriced and over-hyped, but you’ve got to admit, when they go top-end they usually do it right. Jason Cross over at ExtremeTech reviews their latest desktop replacement laptop, the Area-51m 7700, and it’s pretty impressive—as it should be, since it forgoes most laptop parts and actually uses desktop chips crammed inside its not-so-portable 12-pound chassis. What […]
Wireless iPod Coming Soon
MP3digest: At both MacExpo and CES Ten Technologies displayed the naviPlay – a Bluetooth wireless adaptor that allows third-generation iPod owners to ditch their earphone cords. Basically its transmitter plugs into the iPod while its adaptor can connect with any type of headphones or speakers. Its battery will run for about eight hours before it needs a recharge – spookily […]