Miscellaneous

Sep 11, 2008

Store the Web in a box with the 4TB Bit-Torrent iPhone Friendly Buffalo NAS

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous No comments

Forget 1TB - Buffalo have launched another NAS, this time with a whopping 4TB of space (enough to cram the whole Web inside it - well, the bits without video and images at any rate!). Not only that, it also comes with RAID 5 support for serious speed, and connects to virtually anything, thanks [...]




Sep 8, 2008

Pull my finger Apple

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Apple were not amused when this developer sent them his application for consideration. They deamed the “pull my finger” joke to be too boring for their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Apple told the developer:
“We’ve reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod [...]




Aug 2, 2008

HDTV Armour to the rescue

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HDTV armour

You might as well paint a giant target on your lovely HDTV if you have a Nintendo Wii. Accidents can happen but the costs are huge; if the screen on your TV cracks you will need to replace the whole TV. TV Armour screen protectors are crystal clear, optical grade plastic screens that fit TVs [...]




Aug 1, 2008

How to use your iPhone as a wireless modem

Posted by Daniel in Apple, How To, Miscellaneous, Portable Gadgets No comments
tether you iPhone

You are out and about with your laptop and want to access the internet, maybe to write a blog entry or you have some other work to do. Slight problem, there are no WiFi hotspots anywhere near you! You could do the stuff on your iPhone but it lacks a decent text editor and it [...]




Aug 1, 2008

JVC Gumy Air Earbuds

Posted by Daniel in Audio, JVC, Miscellaneous No comments

JVC has just announced an addition it is Gumy line which what they are calling “Gumy Air”. Not sure if I could take a pair of ear bud headphones seriously if they are called “Gumy Air”, it brings visions of them sticking in my ear like chewing gum and providing crummy or gummy sound. But [...]




Jul 29, 2008

Giant inflatable backyard theatre won’t let you down

Posted by Daniel in Featured, Home Cinema, Miscellaneous, Technology No comments
Cinebox inflatable theatre

Movie nights with friends and family won’t be the same again with Open Air Cinema’s 9′x5′ CineBox Home Backyard Theater System. This product has a real “Wow” factor: wow when you see it erected in your garden; imagine inviting your friends over to watch the game, or a film, and leading them straight through the [...]




Jul 28, 2008

Griffin Wireless Sound System not quite as high-tech as you’d think

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous, News No comments

Griffin have released the Griffin Evolve Wireless Sound System, which sounds like it’s a nice piece of high-tech equipment designed to take on other wireless sound systems such as the Philips Streamium range or the Sony Giga Juke.
Sadly, its nothing of the sort. What you get instead is a set of speakers and an iPod [...]




Jul 23, 2008

Cowon P5 - Bluetooth and Mobile TV in a premium PMP

Posted by Mike Evans in Cowon, Featured, Miscellaneous, Portable Gadgets, Video and TV No comments

Cowon have announced the new Cowon P5 Personal Media Player. Actually, “Personal” may be pushing it a bit, as the thing is so huge it comes with its own remote control! Coming with a huge 5″ touchscreen capable of showing 16.7 million colours at an 800 x 480 resolution, the Cowon P5 is aimed [...]




Jul 21, 2008

How to build a crap wireless audio streamer

Posted by Mike Evans in Miscellaneous, News No comments

Wireless audio streamers are becoming increasingly common (at least we hope they are, otherwise this blog’s buggered!), but there’s one thing they all have in common - price. Although they’re undoubtedly useful gadgets to have, particularly if you’ve got a decent sound system and all your tunes are on your PC, they’re not [...]




Jun 28, 2008

Reshape your pits to squeeze 42GB on a DVD

Posted by Daniel in Bluetooth, Media Receiver, Miscellaneous, News, Technology, Video and TV No comments
Reshape your pits

Japanese researchers have been hard at work fiddling with discs and they have come up with a way to multiply the capacity of a CD or DVD by 9 fold. The researchers have managed this magnificent feat by reshaping the pits on the media surface, which are normally flat, into ‘v’ shapes.
Unfortunately you won’t be [...]