Struggling to afford the downpayment on a new iPod shuffle? Well, if things are that tight here’s some good news. You can now buy an MP3 player for, get this - a tenner. The 24g Ebuyer Ecoman delivers all the usual features including MP3 playback and in-ear phones. What you don’t get are rechargeable batteries […]

Is it finally the end of the road for the oft-maligned MiniDisc? It certainly seems that way, judging from the recent activity at the MiniDisc Community Forums. Though not exactly a hotbed of anti-MiniDisc activity, one member points out that at Sony

Alera’s new media destruction device cross cuts DVDs, CDs, Credit Cards, and ATM Cards into small unusable bits, preventing unauthorized use. The DVD/CD Shredder Plus XC can also shred 5 folded sheets of paper. The device has auto start, auto stop, reverse operation and is equipped with a slide out 3.5 Liter basket with a […]

In an new effort to combat piracy, The Walt Disney Studios will utilize an encryption technology from Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, for 2005 DVD awards screeners. Disney will use the tecnnology starting from this year’s Oscars and believes that it would solve the problem of leaked movies. Other studios may follow Disney’s lead […]

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“3″ is offering its customers (it now has 3.2 million subscribers) cash to share their video clips. Users send in thirty second video clips which are then uploaded to the ‘See Me TV’ channel for other 3 customers to view. Each time a clip is downloaded by a 3 customer the performer gets paid 1p, […]

Toshiba and the rest of La Familia HD DVD must thought they had this one on lockdown, but Paramount Pictures announced yesterday that they

Casio has debuted their attempt at integrating an LCD screen with some speakers. They haven

According to MobileMag, Ericsson and SeaMobile have struck a deal to bring 3G wireless voice and data service out to sea, reaching cruise lines, ferries, yachts, container ships and offshore oil and gas facilities. On Ericsson

Sony and SanDisk were showing off the new Memory Stick Micro M2, measuring 15 x 12.5 x 1.2mm (1/4 of the Memory Stick Duo). The format has a theoretical maximum of a whopping 32GB of storage capacity which, if true, might make us momentarily pause from our normal

Those crazy kids over at the gadget prolific Brunel University have produced another must have item to add to your collection of smart shoes and HUD swim goggles. Student Rosanna Kilfedder has a spiced up take on the solar purse minus the whole emphasis on charging your gadgets. Instead, the Sun Trap handbag focuses the […]

Nicholas Negroponte has been promoting this idea of the $100 PC for the developing world for a while now, and he

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