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  • Apple iPhone Launch Goes Hyperbolic

    Apple iPhone Launch Goes HyperbolicThe most over-hyped event in the history of consumer electronics offered plenty of troubling insights into what happens when over-excited tech geeks come into contact with the object of their lust.

    Starting with a mass public countdown on the street, the iPhone Launch TV channel coverage showed slavering first buyers for the iPhone gleefully charging into Apple’s New York Soho store and being treated like celebrities, with their every move being captured by banks of photographers and cameraman.
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  • iPhone Madness: Live Web TV Channel In NY Shop

    iPhone Madness: Live Web TV Channel In NY ShopWe’ll be sooooooooo glad when today is over. This blessed iPhone launch is just getting totally out of control.

    The latest daft part of the over-coverage is that Mogulus, providers of online video tools, are running a dedicated iPhone Launch TV channel.

    Watch it after the jump
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  • Virgin Media: BBC iPlayer Via TV First

    Virgin Media: BBC iPlayer Via TV FirstVirgin Media tell us that they “will be the first” TV service to offer the BBC iPlayer service through their STB and remote control – rather than through a computer.

    Following yesterday’s Official launch of the BBC iPlayer, we thought this would of interest to follow up.
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  • Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury Festival (Part 2/2)

    Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury FestivalIn Part One, we gave you the run down of what gadgets we decided to take along to Glastonbury 2007, now you can find out how we got on with them.

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  • BBC iPlayer To Finally Launch

    BBC iPlayer Finally LaunchedThis morning, BBC boss Mark Thompson announced that the corporation’s long-awaited iPlayer on-demand TV service would launch, as an open public beta, on 27 July this year.

    Unveiling details of the peer-to-peer download service, Thompson predicted that the iPlayer (nee iMP) would be “at least as big a redefinition of broadcast TV as colour TV was 40 years ago.”
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  • Adrian Westaway: Magic Light: RCA 2007

    Listen to the Interview – [audio:https://digital-lifestyles.info/media/audio/adrian-westaway-magic-light-RCA-2007.mp3]

    Adrian Westaway: Magic Light: RCA 2007Adrian Westaway’s project, Magic Light, lets you guide a light to a different location merely by waving your hands in the direction you want to move the light.

    The lack of ‘interface’ means that there’s no age restriction, as using it is as simple as moving your hand around.
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  • Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury Festival

    Taking Gadgets To Glastonbury FestivalLeaving the safety and relative sanity of our London office for a six day soiree at Glastonbury, we thought carefully about what gadgets to pack. Being veterans of Glasto – and all too familiar with the minging mudbath of 2005 – we made sure to pack ample waterproof clothing and bring along plenty of plastic bags for wrapping up our gadgets against the inevitable rain.
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  • iRiver W10 Reappears As A VoIP/Media Player

    Seemingly metamorphosing at a rate of knots as the iPhone rumbles over the horizon, iRiver’s W10 media player has re-emerged again as a sleek all-in-one media player.

    First seen in March 2006, the W10 appeared as a UMPC-like clamshell gadget running Windows XP with a 5in display and a 60GB hard drive for storage.
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  • Manhunt 2 Is “A Fine Piece Of Art”

    Manhunt 2 Is A Fine Piece Of ArtManhunt 2 has been hanging around the news all week long.

    It started off with being banned by the BFFC for sale in the UK, now it’s being called a “fine piece of art” by the game’s publisher, Take-Two.

    The game, written by Rockstar Games, must be liked by the chairman of Take-Two, as he is now on record say that he “Fully” stands behind the game.

    More extensively he release a statement saying

    “The Rockstar team has come up with a game that fits squarely within the horror genre and was intended to do so,” he continued, “It brings a unique, formerly unheard of cinematic quality to interactive entertainment, and is also a fine piece of art.”

    So there.

  • Friday Video: Domino PCs

    Friday Video: Domino PCsHere’s the Friday funny video of the week.

    Two young bucks have tried to make the most out of a huge amount of PCs that must have been hanging around the office.

    It looks like they must have been left alone over a weekend and given this, decided to get creative.

    It’s been around for a little while – it was uploaded late April – but given the language used “dot com crash,” it sounds like it was at least a few years back.

    None of this diminishes the entertainment we think you’ll get from watching it.

    Watch it after the jump
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