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22nd August 2007 Archive

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  • Boblbee offers sunny side up music

    Solar powered Apples

    Lapping up the Sun’s rays to power our consumer gadgets is all the rage. The latest solar-powered device is called the Boblbee and promises to both charge and protect your iPod. You may run out of food and water whilst out and about, but the Boblbee will ensure that you never run out of enough juice to power your iPod. It …

    Media players 22 Aug 2007, 10:20

  • T-Mobile, Orange and O2 land Europe iPhone deal

    It'll all be over by Christmas

    T-Mobile, Orange and O2 are to sell the iPhone in Germany, France, and the UK respectively, according to the Financial Times. The paper also reports that the operators have agreed to give Apple 10 per cent of all revenue generated from iPhone users. The companies concerned have dismissed the story as speculation and rumour, …

    Phones 22 Aug 2007, 10:37

  • How to get TV on your Mac

    Feature Watch and learn

    Will Apple ever equip its Macs with TV tuners? Plenty of users have asked it to, and Apple's own Front Row software would certainly make a smart user interface for a DVR. But as Apple's Apple TV set-top box shows, the company's more interested in persuading consumers to pay to download TV shows from iTunes than watch broadcast …

    Mac 22 Aug 2007, 11:02

  • Li-Ion battery design 'flawed'

    Careful now...

    It won't come as much of a surprise to Sony, but the present design of lithium-ion cell batteries that power our consumer electronics is flawed, according to Japanese researchers. The startling announcement has been made by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which claims that such batteries must be redesigned to avoid further …

    PCs 22 Aug 2007, 13:16

  • Intel shows off X7900 CPU

    More grunt for your money

    Intel today officially debuted its long-awaited X7900 CPU. The Core 2 Duo Extreme dual-core processor was unveiled at the 2007 Games Convention in Germany and is Intel's highest performing notebook CPU to date. The X7900 is clocked at 2.8GHz, contains 4MB of L2 cache and runs on an 800MHz FSB. Intel said the CPU also features …

    Bits 'n' Chips 22 Aug 2007, 13:51

  • Belkin wrestles with wireless HDMI

    1080p goes wireless

    Belkin is pitting itself against some of the HDMI industry’s fiercest heavyweights and planning to launch a wireless version of the technology. However, Belkin doesn’t plan to base its technology over Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and is keeping its lips, well, fairly shut until CES in January. A representative from the company …

    Networking and Wireless 22 Aug 2007, 15:08

  • Hear the bullets zing with Logitech's gaming speakers

    Sounds good to us

    If your wrists crack like an OAP’s and your back aches from hours spent in the chair, then why not go the whole hog and invest in an ear-blistering gaming speaker system. The latest set from Logitech promises to deliver an immersive gaming experience and to even identify the direction of bullet fire. The PC and Mac compatible …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 22 Aug 2007, 15:28