Posted by Andrew Tingle on May 5th 2008 | 1 Response

Buffalo have announced their new and completely uninspiring VH-MU01 USB handset with integrated noise cancelling that serves as a Skype phone as well as sporting Fusion IP compatibility, for those of you in Japan and, whilst we don’t doubt its functionality, we cannot help but wonder about its (apparent lack …

Buffalo VH-MU01 USB Skype Fusion IP VoiP Phone

According to reports surfacing in the German press, a German inventor by the name of Werner Nickel, who was initially working in the United Arab Emirates on a project that employed worm excrement to grow radishes in the desert (we couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried) has developed …

Abrams Tank with AR1 Paint 2

Fujitsu have announced the immediate availability of their LifeBook U810 mini and ultra-portable LifeBook T2010 convertible tablet PC/notebooks featuring integrated access to the AT&T BroadbandConnect High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network promising ‘the highest speed data wireless GSM WAN connection available in North America’.

Fujitsu LifeBook U810 Mini & LifeBook T2010 Ultra-Portable Notebooks

Dell has confirmed that it has ceased shipping two models in its Vostro laptop range, specifically the Vostro 1310 and 1510 models, after a customer – whose vigilance is obviously somewhat more finely tuned than Dell’s own quality controllers – pointed out that the keyboard’s entire lower row was …

Dell Vostro 1510 Laptop

Digital Foci have announced that their new multi media ‘Image Moments 8’ IMT-083 digital photo frame is now available offering a 8” SVGA 800 x 600 LCD with 500:1 contrast ratio, MP3 and MPEG 1/4 file format compatibility, integrated stereo speakers and a not to shabby 450MB of internal memory.

Digital Foci Image Moments 8 Digital Photo Frame

Whilst cell phone wrist watches are by no means anything new, few – if any –boast quite the degree of highly distinctive and deliciously glorious retro space age styling as this U200i UFO watch which not only serves as a touch screen time piece and a cell phone, but also …

U200i UFO Cell Phone Wrist Watch

The LCD TV Association, a global non-profit, marketing trade association ‘formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers’ has announced its new GreenTV initiative which, it hopes, will serve to reduce the power consumption of LCD TV units by at least 30% and result in LCD …

LCDTVA Logo on LCDTV

We’ve been here before, of course, what with Sony’s Stan Glasgow indicating, back in March, that talks between Microsoft and Sony were underway with respect to developing a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 – something that was consequently denied in a somewhat unequivocal fashion by Aaron Greenberg (see …

Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive

Hitachi has confirmed that their ultra thin HDTV units, which measure a mere 1.5” in depth, come in screen sizes ranging from 32” to 47” and which caused a considerable commotion at this year’s CES are hitting the US market in a series of staggered releases.

Hitachi Ultra Thin 1 point 5 HDTV

Perhaps its just us, but we cannot help but feel that a designer somewhere (in China) forgot to take their medication before coming up with this monstrosity of a desktop USB speaker system – but what really surprises us is that another someone somewhere actually thought that someone else (who …

Birds Nest Stereo USB Powered Desktop Speakers
Posted by Andrew Tingle on May 1st 2008 | No Responses

Mvix have announced the immediate availability of their new MV-2500U Ultra Portable hard disk drive based media center which ‘provides the joy of watching your favorite videos, movies, music and family photos on your TV or home-theater projector’ courtesy of a pocket sized, easily transportable device – though the actual …

Mvix MV-2500U Ultra Portable HDD Based Media Center