Shiny at IFA 2008: Sony's Cyber-shot T500 – 10.1 megapixels and 720p movie clips

Susan here is impressing her friend with the new Cyber-shot T500, which Sony has just revealed at IFA 2008. The minuscule snapper boasts a spec-sheet-pleasing 10.1 megapixels, plus the ability to record videos at official HD Ready 1280x720 resolution, in MPEG4 AVC/H.264 format, for proper HD playback on the widescreen TV of your choice -…

Demi Lovato, Sennheiser and the Jonas Brothers burn it up on tour

Up until an hour ago, I'd never heard of Demi Lovato ("Demi who?"). As always, a quick trip to trusty source Wikipedia cleared all that up. I can now tell you she's an American actress, singer and songwriter who has starred in Disney movie Camp Rock alongside the Jonas Brothers. She's also due to star…

Shiny at IFA 2008: Trekstor to launch not one, not two, but three MP3 players

Trekstor call themselves 'the leading manufacturer of high quality MP3 players', but has failed to impress me in the past. This could all be about to change with the release of three brand spanking new MP3 players currently on show at IFA - the vibez Flash, i.Beat organix and i.Beat Nova. First up, the vibez…

Pure grabs a piece of the internet radio pie

Those radio manufacturers over at Pure have been providing us with nicely designed, quality sounding radios for a while now (give or take a few ugly ducklings). The latest radio to join the group is the retro looking Evoke Flow DAB digital radio. Not only is it a rather dashing piece of radio equipment, it…

Hands-free cigarettes

If you were thinking this post is about some kind of lazy/technological way to smoke cigarettes without the use of your hands, you'd be wrong (but wouldn't that be great). It's actually about a headset shaped and decorated like a packet of Marlboro Reds. One for the smokers me thinks. It seems unlikely any non-smoker…

Go bananas for the uber cute monkey USB card reader

If you're going to have a card reader, you may as well opt for one with a bit of pizazz. If I had this USB card reader, I'd name him Steve (there's not enough monkey's called Steve and it beats USB Monkey) and take him everywhere. We'd even go on little adventures together solving crimes…

Guitar Praise: Unite your love of god and guitar hero

Are the malevolent subliminal messages and satanic lyrics featured in rock music a bit too evil and riddled with sin and darkness? Did it prevent you making the Guitar Hero purchase coz you're a bit more of a gentle soul who would love to rock, but not to the likes of AC/DC or Metallica? Fear…

Samsung to make the internet on your TV a reality

The internet's been on one hell of a journey. It's gone from PCs to laptops, to mobile phones and now directly to your television set. And we've got Samsung and Yahoo to thank for this great step forward in the online world. Although they're saving the official announcement for IFA this week, it's thanks to…