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B&W Zeppelin gets a little brother
Going mini seems to be the flavour of the moment. After Nokia unveiled the N97 Mini recently, now it’s the turn of everyone’s favourite zeppelin-shaped iPod dock: introducing the B&W Zeppelin Mini! ...
LG GW620 joins the Androids!
Welcome to the Android party LG. The LG GW620 (catchy name!) is the company’s first ever Android handset and boy it’s a sexy slider! ...
Asus eBook reader could have two colour screens
If we have one quibble with the typical eBook is that it doesn’t really resemble a book as such. The Kindle, the Sony Reader, et al, are all more like electronic pages – single A4 or A5 sheets of…
Is Apple going to kill the iPod Classic tomorrow?
It is one of the 21st Century’s most iconic designs – rectangle, little screen, big circular control wheel. The iPod Classic is the current iteration of the basic iPod audio player, but if rumours are…
Pure Siesta Flow wakes you up with DAB
DAB radios seem stuck in a limbo where they are either too big or too expensive. Its hard to justify buying a boxy radio you can’t carry around with you when you could get similar functionality from a…
Apple approves Commodore 64 for iPhone
Retro gamers rejoice! Apple has finally approved the Commodore 64 emulator app for the iPhone, opening up the possibility of playing loads of classic C64 games on the 3G and 3GS. But its not just fans…
Lady Gaga launches blinged-up headphones
Like portable music? Like Lady Gaga? Like shiny objects? There are several ways you can combine these interests – playing Poker Face on a tinfoil-wrapped iPod, for example – but the one the good Lady…
Spotify Mobile rocks iPhone and Android
Music streaming service Spotify dropped a big hint via Twitter that today would be a “Big Day”, and they weren’t kidding. We had been expecting some kind of announcement about the Spotify iPhone app,...
Lenovo ThinkPad puts laptop keys on your desktop
The Lenovo (nee IBM) ThinkPad keyboard is a proper design classic. Lovely, full-travel typing on a titchy little keyboard that couldn’t possibly fit in such a small laptop – but somehow does. Lovely….
Samsung laptops get the X Factor
We’re starting to lose count of how many products have been named ‘the X-series’. Well the latest to get the X factor is Samsung’s new range of slimline laptops – the Samsung X-Series. ...
Toshiba joins Blu-ray party... finally!
The Toshiba BDX2000 is not so much the final nail in HD-DVD’s coffin as the final clump of earth shovelled on top of the coffin after it’s been buried. That’s right, Toshiba – the staunchest of HD-DVD…
Philips working on Cinema 21:9 3D!
We loved the Philips Cinema 21:9 television. So you can imagine how ecstatic we were when the big P used its press conference in IFA to tout a Philips Cinema 21:9 3D offering! ...
