24th November 2006 Archive

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eBayer offers 60GB PS3 for less than a dollar

Ticked the wrong box?

Want an 60GB Sony PlayStation 3, a pile of games, a Blu-ray Disc and an extra game controller for a mere 99 cents? or would you rather take pity on the poor eBay who - apparently - set his 'Buy Now' price to $0.99 rather than his starting price. It's an easy mistake to make, we suppose. But then the seller should beware just …

Consoles 24 Nov 2006, 09:27
Yes! It's the gold ingot USB hub

Pieces of eight. Piece of eight

At a mere ¥5,980 ($52/£27/€40), it wouldn't be too hard to snap up a stack of these Japanese gold ingot-styled eight-port USB hubs to re-create that robbing the Bank of England and/or Fort Knox experience in your own living room. The manufacturer's smartly weighed each block down with enough metal to yield a gold-like weight …

Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Nov 2006, 09:57
Fitfone wins innovation award

Top of the podium for fitness phone

A new mobile-based health and fitness assessment aid has scooped the top prize at the NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme. The FitFone Exercise Physiology System is embedded into a mobile phone and facilitates remote health and fitness assessment. It measures an individual's fitness level using personal statistics such …

Phones 24 Nov 2006, 10:01
Sapphire unveils 'ultimate' ATI graphics card

Zalman cooling on board

Graphics card maker Sapphire has announced an AMD ATI Radeon X1950 Pro-based board that it pledged was not only on average five per cent faster than cards fitted with the same GPU but also much quieter too. The Ultimate Edition X1950 Pro clocks the GPU to 580MHz and its 256MB of GDDR 3 video memory to 1.6GHz. Cooling comes …

Bits 'n' Chips 24 Nov 2006, 10:21
UK sets iTrip FM transmitter legalisation date

Gadgets must still meet CE-set specs

Griffin Technology's iTrip and other iPod-oriented FM transmitters will become legal on 8 December, the UK's wireless regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed. On that date, extensions to the Wireless Telegraphy Act, which currently bans the use of iTrip-like devices, will be updated for the iPod era. There's a catch: the only such …

Media players 24 Nov 2006, 10:38
HTC's HSDPA 'BlackBerry beater' appears on web

Cavalier rides in

HTC's 3G-enabled follow-up to its S620 - aka 'Excalibur', aka Dash - BlackBerry-like Windows Mobile smart phone has made an early, unscheduled appearance on the web as a pair of piccies and details of its specification. According to a mole cited by Italian-language site SoloPalmari.com, the new device, codenamed 'Cavalier', …

Phones 24 Nov 2006, 11:28
Hackers debut Mac OS X adware

iNuisance

Miscreants have created a proof-of-concept sample of adware that targets Apple Mac OS X users. iAdware might, in theory at least, be silently installed onto Macs, running itself each time an application is loaded, anti-virus firm F-Secure reports. The malware takes advantage of unspecified security weaknesses in the OS to load …

Mac 24 Nov 2006, 12:36
Aigo F029 digital video wristwatch

First Review The world's first wearable PMP?

How small can personal media players go? Right down to the size of a wristwatch if you believe Chinese manufacturer Aigo, which this month launched a PMP that matches its large-screen siblings on features yet is designed to be worn on your wrist. Heck, it'll even tell you the time. A case of miniaturisation gone mad? Maybe not …

Media players 24 Nov 2006, 13:27
Sony sounds clammy Cyber-shot warning

Cameras may not cope with steamy environments, apparently

Kindly refrain from snapping steamy, passionate piccies of your partner with certain older Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras, the consumer electronics giant has asked buyers this week. It turns out the cameras' LCDs may run into trouble in warm, humid environments. According to Sony, the problem may affect more than 1m cameras …

Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Nov 2006, 15:22