Everybody knows the Wii has an immensely clever motion-sensing remote for controlling its games, but did you know it can be turned to other uses? Yep, researcher Johnny Lee has used the cheap white plastic stick to create a cut-price interactive whiteboard (usually costs a few grand, here about £25) and a motion-tracking headset that [...]

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Got a sparkling new Blu-ray player but don’t know how to unleash the format’s awesome audio abilities? Then you need to invest in a 7.1-channel surround amplifier like Denon’s newly-launched AVC-A1HD, which takes the raw audio data, decodes it and belts it out in ultra-crisp, ultra-powerful lossless surround sound.

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There’s been no official deal between Sony and the BBC, but a gifted PS3 fanboy has worked out how to hack his beloved console to watch the Beeb’s popular catch-up TV service. Wii owners have been enjoying top BBC shows since Nintendo struck a deal to host the service, but there’s been no word of [...]

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Good news for coffee and Internet addicts: now you can get an injection of free Wi-Fi when you go for your next caffeine fix at Coffee Republic. A wireless broadband connection while you sip watery coffee has been a carrot dangled by all of the globalising coffee chains, but until now, none could resist the [...]

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Psystar is cheekily marketing its latest PC as “OpenMac, the Apple alternative” and recommending Leopard for an operating system. OpenMac is made from regular PC components and looks like an ordinary tower, but its creators are describing it as “a PC that works just like a Mac with Apple’s latest operating system OS X 10.5.” [...]

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Serial Bluetooth-botherers Plantronics have just ripped the covers off the Discovery 925, a wireless earpiece that looks a step up from the average plasticky jabber-tool. The V-shaped frame curves round to follow the contours of the wearer’s face and there’s also noise reduction gubbins going on, which is nice, but really the main reason to [...]

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Just when you thought UMPCs had gone the way of the dodo, Sharp launches an all-new mobile computer toting not only an LED backlit touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard and Windows Vista Home Premium, but it’s the first ever mobile device to feature speedy Intel Atom 1.3GHz processor!

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If we got our hands on an early copy of GTA IV we’d be playing it right now instead of writing this - but luckily not everyone is as selfish as us. Some fortunate wag has already bagged what appears to be a 100 percent legit copy of the Xbox 360 version and instead of [...]

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