In part one we rated the Palm Centro, the Asus Eee 901 netbook and LG GSA-E5ON portable CD/DVD rewriter as travelling companions. Read on for our round up.
Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini
With only 12GB of storage available on the Eee 901, we needed to back up our precious photo files on to this handy USB portable hard drive (as well as backing up to a 16GB memory card in the Eee).
Continue reading Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part Two)
In what has to be a last gasp, make or break move, Palm have announced that they will be announcing their long overdue new operating system at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
We’ve just spent a fortnight in New York, and being the tech freaks we are, we dutifully packed our bags full of out latest gadgets. Sadly. not all of them managed to impress. Check out our report to find the winners and losers.
Continue reading Our Gadgets On The Streets Of New York (Part One)
Teams of industrial cleaners were called for to deal with the oceans of drool that encircled our desks after checking out the hugely desirable new HTC Touch 4G handset.
Barely bigger than an iPhone, the HTC Max 4G packs in a ton of top notch technology, with the same massive 480×800 pixel 3.8″ touchscreen display as seen in the HTC HD.
Continue reading HTC Max 4G – World’s First GSM/WiMax Mobile Phone
The BBC, ITV and BT have announced a proposal to create an “open environment for broadband connected digital television receivers.”
It’s an initiative open for all UK public service broadcasters, device developers and other ISPs, which they hope will lead to a new generation of subscription free devices, carrying free to air channels and a huge selection of on demand TV services like iPlayer and ITV Player, as well as the potential for films, shows and interactive content from a range of other providers in standard and high definition.
Continue reading BBC, ITV & BT Announce Open Broadband STB Project
We really, really wanted to get along to the first HomeCamp event – which covered the now-realistic world of automating your home.
Due to a change of circumstances on our side, we couldn’t make it. Much to our relief IBM Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer Dr Andy Stanford-Clark (who you may know from his house that Twitters) said he’d cover it for Digital-Lifestyles’ readers. Thanks Andy!
A couple of Saturdays ago I went to the first “HomeCamp,” at Imperial College in London.
HomeCamp was an “unconference” (a conference where the participants decide what form and content it should have, on the day) to look at areas of home energy monitoring and home automation.
If you’re like me, you won’t have heard of Arduino. Outside this sphere of ignorance there’s a whole lot of artists who not only love Arduino, but are passionate about it too.
If you’re in the “What the hell is Arduino?”, this book gives you a good guide to what it it and what can be done with it.
Arduino comes from an educational background and is a combination of open source hardware running open source software, enabling the control of ‘things.’ These ”things’ can be assembled allowing quite complex circuits to be constructed.
Continue reading Getting Started With Arduino: Book Review (70%)
In yesterday’s instalment, we loved the Ricoh, Panasonic and Lumix. Read on for our conclusion today of the best high-end digital compact cameras.
Continue reading Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part Three)
In Part One of our search for the hottest high end digital cameras, we finished by looking for something to beat one of our favourites, the Olympus XA.
That camera was the Ricoh GR, which, like the XA, offered a fixed, wide angle lens in a compact package.
Continue reading Christmas Guide: Seeking The Perfect High-End Digital Compact Camera (Part Two)
With Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC) company – makers of T-Mobile’s G1 Google Phone – upgrading sales forecasts to hit one million units by the end of 2008 (and account for 4 percent of all smartphones sold in the US during the fourth quarter of 2008), we thought it might be an idea to post some links to new and available software.
Continue reading Android: Round Up Of The Best Apps For The T-Mobile G1