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  • Pure-Fi Mobile Speaker System Streams Sounds From Your Pocket

    Pure-Fi Mobile Speaker System Streams Sounds From Your PocketIf you’re fed up battling with cables that tangle up quicker than a confused Cobra after a crateful of Carlsberg, Logitech’s Pure-Fi Mobile speaker system could be the perfect carry-around for you.
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  • Pace Get 2nd Gen BT Vision Box Deal

    Pace Get 2nd Gen BT Vision Box DealPace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.

    Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing — that the contact should go to Pace.

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  • Vita Audio R4 Music System With iPod Dock

    Vita Audio R4 Music System With iPod DockThe world is full of iPod docks, but we have to say this one from Vita Audio looks a little bit special.

    Such is the vagaries of audiophile fashion, the R4 Integrated Music System sports the kind of wood finish that was the pinnacle of coolness in the 70s, a bit naff in the 80s, firmly in ‘old fogey’ camp by the nineties, but come the naughties and people can’t get enough of that woody, walnut veneered look.

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  • Harmony 785 Advanced Universal Remote: Review (87%)

    Review (87%)It’s great having a living room stuffed full of the latest gadgets, but with just about every gizmo coming with its own easily-lost remote control, parlour games of “hunt the ruddy remote” and “where’s the chuffing battery gone?!” have become commonplace in some homes.
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  • Louis Savy: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: Audio Interview

    Louis Savy: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: Audio InterviewThe London Sci-Fi film festival is on this weekend and sounds like it’s well worth a visit after we spoke to Louis Savy, the Festival Director, last week. They’re tying up with Archos too to show some of the short films.

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  • Archos Portation: Product Run Through: Audio

    Archos Portation: Product Run Through: AudioWhile we were at the Archos launch in London last week we had a run through of the Archos Portation.

    It’s a free plugin for owners of the Archos TV+ which lets you stream live TV from your TV+ to a laptop, Symbian phone or handheld Archo 605 or 705 with DVR station if they’re equipped with the £30 plugin.

    Think of it as a free Slingbox with your Archos TV+.

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  • Samsung CLP-315K Colour Laser Printer Claims “World’s Smallest” Tag

    Samsung CLP-315K Colour Laser Printer Claims It doesn’t seem that long ago that our office used to rattle to the deafening sound of a chunky monochrome dot matrix printer producing its highly variable printouts, but if proof were needed of the onward march of technology, check out Samsung’s new bijou colour laser printers.
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  • Philips DVD Micro Theatre MCD299

    Philips DVD Micro Theatre MCD299 If you’re the kind of person that is happy to sacrifice a bit of sound quality in exchange for some serious pose value, then Philips’ new MCD299 micro home theatre could be just the ticket for your a la mode living room.
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  • Brando ‘Button Badge’ USB Pedometer

    Brando 'Button Badge' USB Pedometer Folks keen to lose a bit of excess lard with a bit of pavement pounding, and keen walkers hungry for information about their perambulations might be interested in the latest curious USB gadget to be dreamt up by the hyperactive boffins in Brando’s ever-busy labs.
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  • Wii Fit Tour Analysed and How Consoles Do Get You Fit

    Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.

    When the Wii Fit was recently launched in the UK, it was reported as selling out pretty much instantly, which grabbed a few headlines.
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