We’ve no idea why anyone would want an Ikea-branded mobile phone service, but flat-pack furniture freaks will be able to sign up to a branded Ikea service from Friday.
The Swedish furniture kings will be offering a mobile phone package to the 1.4 million members of its loyalty programme after the company snagged a deal with mobile phone group T-Mobile.
Back in the day, musicians on the road had to make do with scribbling on the back of beer mats when inspiration struck, but thanks to Tascam’s GT-R1 Portable Guitar/Bass Recorder, musos can lay down the licks in a tick with this pocket sized, high end digital recorder
Looking a bit like it’s mated with a mini-Cyberman, the GT-R1 is a high quality, portable audio recorder for capturing your ‘licks’ to MP3/WAVE at 48/44.1 kHz, 24-bits uncompressed.
The unit comes with a backlit 128 x 64 graphic LCD and and a 1GB SDHC memory card, leaving you ample time to throw some shapes and lay down your finest hammers ons, pull offs, slides, whammy bar wobblings and note bendings.
The SDHC slot means that you can add higher capacity cards letting hit your vibrato and go for a bite.
The unit comes with multiple effects built-in, no less than 55 preset rhythm patterns and packs a cunning “trainer” function which allows axe-wielders to rock along to their fave tracks at their choice of speed — without changing the pitch.
The Tascam comes in a rather pleasing orange/red finish which looks like it could survive being stepped on by drunken drummers or being hit by Derek Smalls’ codpiece enhancer.
There’s no UK release date planned yet, but the Tascam GT-R1 will be out in Japan on August 26th, with a retail price around £160 ($310).
We can’t wait to get our hands on an Android OS-based handset, and it looks like our wait may soon be over.
According to Hui-ming Cheng, Chief Financial Officer at enormo handset makers High Tech Computer (HTC), the company will start shifting their first Android-based handsets to ODM clients in the fourth quarter of this year, band on schedule.
Punters are failing to feel the love for the shiny new high tech Blu-ray format, with many happy to stick with their trusty old DVD players, according to a recent survey.
In a survey of 1,000 consumers, ABI Research found that over half had “other priorities” to shelling out for a Blu-ray player, although just under a quarter said that they were likely to buy one sometime next year.
It’s all well and good strutting around town with your snazzy slim’n’light ultraportable laptop but if there’s no optical recorder lurking inside you’re going to feel a bit of a chump when you need to back up content or access material on CD or DVD.
Hurtling down the new product chute at high speed is version two of Adobe’s popular photo-editing and organising suite, Photoshop Lightroom.
The company is hoping that with booming sales of high-end SLR cameras, enthusiast snappers will be looking for more sophisticated methods of sorting, categorising, editing and tweaking collections of images scattered over their bulging hard drives.
Dell have now released more details about their new Studio Hybrid mini-desktop PCs, and we’re liking the look of them even more.
With a case barely larger than an external DVD burner, the Hybrid can be set up in vertical or horizontal configurations, with a warm glowing blue Dell logo reminding you where your money went.
DAB radiomeisters PURE have announced the latest update to their EcoPlus range, the Pure ONE Elite radio.
Hoping to lure your wallet into a spend-frenzy with its rounded corners, shiny chromed controls and tactile soft-touch finish, the Elite comes in black or white finishes and packs the usual large dose of Pure goodness for £70.
With a swishy YouTube video freshly sent out into the wild (UPDATE: Sadly now marked private), Dell has given the hype machine a nudge to ready the masses for their new Studio Hybrid small form factor desktop PC.
Claiming to be 80 percent smaller than a typical PC, the Studio Hybrid comes in no less than seven different interchangeable colours to reduce the risk of unfortunate colour clashes with your new curtains.
According to a recent study, the humble computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years to be usurped by fancy-pants touch screens and facial recognition systems.
That’s as maybe, but we still need one to get around our Thinkpad laptop right now, so we invested in the wireless Logitech VX Nano, a sleek black and dark grey number with natty rubberised side panels and slinky contours that feel good to the touch.