Sky’s on-demand service just changed its name to the not-entirely-unfamiliar-sounding Sky Player, as well as adding live TV from Sky News and Sky Sports.
Archive for May 15th, 2008
Sky re-badges Anytime as Sky Player, adds live TV
IKEA invades The Sims
Got your twee little Sims house set up? Now you can fill it with IKEA furniture, and make your modern townhouse even more like everyone else’s!
Yep, IKEA has licensed its ludicrously-named furniture designs to EA, letting you pack your virtual dolls house with all manner of Swedish furnishings.
Ray powered Robot
Ownership of this deskbound butterfly will involve the purchase of specialist tools to assist in construction, but once you’ve mastered this fairly simple kit there’ll be no stopping your progress.
SlingModem makes place-shifting easier than ever
Not content with blasting your TV to your laptop, mobile or any other device over the internet, Sling Media just unveiled the SlingModem, an all-in-one internet and TV receiver, plus Slingbox!
Creative takes the hassle out of live music
Let’s face it - physical concerts are a bit rubbish. First you have to actually get there, you’ll probably get stuck behind some idiot wearing a stupid hat and then you’ve got to queue for the toilets. Creative feels your pain, and instead is offering you the chance to download your live music action for [...]
Samsung’s Bang & Olufsen-powered muso-phone
Feast your eyes (and ears) on Samsung’s new F400 music phone. Up front it might be more of the same from Samsung’s style-conscious designers, but inside it’s got the guts of a Bang & Olufsen sound system.
Samsung to show off super-speedy TV
The race for the fastest TV’s has begun. Samsung are all set to show off their new telly tech capable of producing images at 240 Hertz, making the current 120Hz HDTV’s look like your grandma’s prehistoric boobtube.
Robot for the thrifty
Program-a-Bot looks like a fairly standard issue bipedal bot yet it punches well above its meagre thirty quid price tag.
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