Grab your red and green glasses: video sharing site YouTube is dabbling in the third dimension, testing out 3D videos on the site with a bunch of viewing options for different 3D systems. Want to know how to get increased depth perception with your happy slapping clips? Read on and see!
July, 2009
The HTC Hero isn’t even in stores yet, but news of another smartphone from the Taiwanese tech company is here: a curious clamshell called the HTC Leo. The brand new blower has more in common with a Nintendo DSi than any mobile, thanks to its dual screens. Intrigued? Read on to find out what we know so far.
UPDATE: Oh, pigs don’t fly after all. The RIAA exec now says he didn’t use the word “dead” in the interview. We hope the RIAA hasn’t gone and put its head back in the sand though, even if it’s not willing to admit this much officially.
Toshiba’s not the only one making a quiet u-turn today: the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the long time defender of DRM software on music downloads, has finally admitted that the practice of adding restrictions to tracks you download is “dead”. Well, that didn’t take long. Only a good ten years, but what’s a decade between friends, right?
A UK Kindle may be coming up fast, but the Elonex eBook has hit British Borders bookshops already, and we’ve got one to prove it. It may be lacking the iPod nano-esque colours of the Cool-er and the big name reliability of the Sony Reader, but can the screen – and the books on offer – help it stand out from the crowd? Read on and find out in our hands and eyes-on!
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong planting his feet on the moon, Sky has decided to come over all interactive. The pay TV powerhouse, whose recent MJ tribute was an HD winner, has cobbled together an awesome Interactive Solar System which you can prod and poke right now over on skynews.com.
Tsera may not be a multinational corporation like Apple with revenues in the billions, but that’s not stopped it from taking the Cupertino company to court, claiming it swiped its control technology for the iPod. Not only have Steve Jobs and co allegedly been pilfering, but Microsoft, iRiver and a whole host of competitors. It’s a battle of David versus several Goliaths, but is it all destined to end in tears?
Toshiba has finally given in and surrendered to Sony, now it’s planning to start shifting its own Blu-ray players. We always suspected its XDE DVD player was a bit of a desperate stop gap but would you part with your own money for a Toshiba Blu-ray player, especially given that Tosh’s own UK CEO thinks Blu-ray is going to be outdated by downloads anyway?