The invites are out and the event is now official, Apple will be hosting a music related event on 1st September in San Franciso, USA. Top of the rumour tree is a new iPod Touch, and this fourth generation is whispered to be the most social of iPods yet.
Fresh with their success with the Boxee Box, NVIDIA have been showing off the prowess of their Tegra2 chip that powers it, and talking about some of the devices that other manufacturers are working on that will also be powered by the Tegra2. One such developer is Notion Ink, who have revealed a prototype tablet [...]
CES 2010 always brings out the bizarre, but a company called Touch Revolution are taking it to the extreme. They’ve been showing off a microwave and washer/dryer, both equipped with the Android OS. Android, I’m sure you know, is Google’s open source operating system that’s been installed on dozens of smartphones, tablets and laptops. Never, [...]
Wireless vinyl – now there are two words I never thought I’d see together! The gorgeous looking sound system you see here could have come straight from the pages of an old 1970s B&O catalogue on how the music systems of the future (i.e. 1995!) might look. It’s called the TRIA, and it’s an oddly [...]
Sony is rumoured to be launching a new touchscreen Wi-Fi-equipped Walkman at CES 2009 in the New Year. The new Walkman will be designed to take on the iPod Touch, and will feature a 3″ OLED touchscreen display with enhanced colours. It’ll also feature Wi-Fi for browsing the Web, watching YouTube videos, and downloading MP3s [...]
If your significant other is just as much a gadget freak as you are, then you might want to think about the Twinned MP3 player. As you can see from the pic, the Twinned is actually two MP3 players in one,and can snap apart so that you both get one half of the device. Each [...]
Seems like this week is 3D TV week! Hot on the heels of the Philips 3D BluRay player comes news of stunning new 3D TV technology from Victor Company of Japan (aka JVC) and Japan’s NICT. The new display is a full HD TV that can display 3D images without the need for special glasses. [...]
Hitachi have been showing off a prototype of a new, and gloriously named Hitachi Wooo camcorder at this year’s CEATEC Japan 2008 exhibition. The new Wooo is an HD camcorder with built-in WiFi that can stream live HD pictures to your TV over your WiFi connection. The Wooo also supports the increasingly-popular DLNA, which is [...]
Philips have been showing off their new and amusingly-titled Philips WoWvx technology, which is a 3D TV technology. Before you groan about dodgy looking glasses, Philips’s approach can be used both with and without glasses. It’s what the company’s calling “2D-plus-depth”, meaning it’s not true 3D, but just 2D images with the illusion of depth [...]
Here’s something you don’t see every day – mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson are working on a top secret wireless audio system. Details are scarce at the moment (and pictures, annoyingly, even scarcer), but apparently the new audio system will feature 2.1 audio with subwoofer, FM radio, bass and treble controls (which you’d kind of [...]
