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  • VCR2PC: USB VHS Player For Digitising Your VHS Tapes

    VCR2PC: USB VHS Player For Digitising Your VHS TapesRemember when we broke the story of the USB tape deck?

    The latest bit of USB kit for digitising your media from Firebox is a USB VHS machine.

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  • Teac Reference DR-H300DAB DVD Receiver – Review Part 1

    Compact receiver packs hi-fi performance and DVD playback in a stylish package.
    Teac Reference DR-H300DAB DVD Receiver - ReviewLooking dapper with its old-school looks, stylish brushed steel finish and promising oodles of hi-fi goodness is Teac’s DR-H300DAB DVD Receiver.

    Aimed at space-strapped folks looking for a lorra entertainment without the need to fill up the room with half of ton of cables’n’components, the DR-H300DAB packs a CD player (CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, PictureCD and DivX; 3.11, 4.x, 5.x) and a DAB/FM RDS receiver.

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  • Motorola S9 Review: Stereo Bluetooth Headset pt 2 (Score 72%)

    This is the second part of the review. Yesterday we introduced the Motorola S9 review of the wireless headphones and covered the remote media controls.

    Motorola s9 Bluetooth headphone ReviewUse as a phone headset
    Pressing the call button when you’re listening to music automatically pauses the track and any voice-dialling commands that you utter are passed over to the handset, dialling the number, if configured.

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  • Motorola S9 Review: Stereo Bluetooth Headset

    Motorola s9 Bluetooth headphone ReviewWe’ve been using the S9 stereo bluetooth headset from Motorola for quite a long time now.

    The concept behind them is intriguing – being able to enjoy music without having to deal with the wires that normally get caught up between headphones and the music player – but they’re more than that. You can step backwards and forwards through the tracks and make and receive phone calls.

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  • PA Case: Motorised Suitcase Becomes ‘Weightless’

    PA Case: Motorised Suitcase Become 'Weightless'We’ve all struggled with getting our luggage to co-operate with us, having to persuade it that it should go in the direction we want it to.

    A UK company, Live Luggage, has decided to take on this problem with their PA Case – a motorised suitcase. (more…)

  • IFA 2008: Continued Evolution

    IFA 2008 AnticipatedOne thing is clear, IFA, _the_ European consumer electronics show, knows how to put on a show and how to entertain.

    If you’ve been to the show in Berlin that runs between the end of August and that start of September you’ll know what we mean – it’s huge and the companies that exhibit there really go to town to make their stands special.

    It’s also very popular with over 100,000 trade visitors from 93 countries visiting it last year. (more…)

  • Highest Popping Toaster: Exclusive Video And Slow Mo Of World Record

    Highest Popping Toaster: Exclusive Video And Slow Mo Of RecordYou may have heard about the Highest Popping toaster in the world and the intention to get it into the record books.

    We were at the RCA yesterday when the devices creator, Freddie Yauner, 26, launched himself (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) into the Guinness Book of Records with his bonkers over-powered toaster.

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  • Optoma Pico Projector: Handheld Midget

    Optoma Pico Projector: Handheld MidgetProjections company Optomo has announced a pocket-sized video projector.

    A long time back, Texas Instruments, or TI as it’s commonly referred to as, made the decision that they’d be a big player, if not the largest, in the world of video projectors.

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  • BMW: Flexible Skin On The Z8: The Future?: Video

    BMW: Flexible Skin On The Z8BMW are thinking differently about cars. They’ve been busying themselves for the last six years with an under wraps project called GINA – “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptions.”

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  • Onkyo X-NX10A Audio System Packs 80GB HD

    Onkyo X-NX10A Audio System Packs 80GB HDWe’re liking the sleek lines of the new X-NX10A audio system from Onkyo, which packs a built-in HDD.

    The attractive looking mini hi-fi bears a strong resemblance to the well received Onkyo CS515DAB micro system, with the addition of the hefty LCD colour screen now parked on the front of the unit.
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