8th May 2007 Archive

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• SlouchPod gaming chair

  Exclusive Review Park your posterior on this puppy, plug in and play

  If your home entertainment system is almost complete - Sky Plus is set, the games console is comfortable and the HD DVD player is in place - but getting down to an hour or two of some serious gameplay means rearranging the furniture, then the aptly named SlouchPod could be the solution. It is, in essence, a glorified bean …

  Consoles 8 May 2007, 13:28

• Pioneer pitches cut-price Blu-ray Disc drive

  Read only

  Pioneer has launched its bid to dominate the Blu-ray Disc drive business with a drive set to retail for just €250 ($340/£170) including taxes. The catch: it's a read-only drive, at least as far as HD media go. The Japanese giant said it would offer two versions of the drive, one for computer manufacturers, the other for …

  Storage 8 May 2007, 13:57

• Nvidia guns for integrated GPUs with $50 GeForce 7 board

  Nvidia has rolled out its latest entry-level graphics chip, a GeForce 7 series product it hopes will win business back PC vendors choosing to stick with GPUs integrated into chipsets, and to persuade punters with low-cost PCs to do the same. The GeForce 7200 GS is only a DirectX 9-class GPU, but it's Windows Vista Premium …

  Bits 'n' Chips 8 May 2007, 14:21

• Apple LED backlight order points to MacBook Pro make-over?

  Sooner than expected

  Apple's anticipated line of displays fitted with LED backlights could be turned on sooner than expected: next month, if testimony from industry insiders is to be believed, and quite possibly for an update to the 15in MacBook Pro laptop, we'd add. According to a Think Secret report, Apple ordered 100,000 15.4in LED-backlit LCD …

  Mac 8 May 2007, 14:45

• Sony Ericsson waxes lyrical over 'nature-inspired' handset

  It's alive with energy. Apparently

  Inspired by its "design team's love for the materials and colours found in the natural world", purple prose merchant and occasional phone supplier Sony Ericsson has thrust a new, gold-coloured slider, the S500, on the unsuspecting American phone-buying public. That said, the S500 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset, so it …

  Gadgets and Gizmos 8 May 2007, 16:34