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1 Feb 2012
B&O Play Beolit 12 Airplay Wireless Speaker System

Top-notch AV fiddlers Bang & Olufsen have unveilied a new brand recently called B&O Play.  The new brand is not going to be a poor man’s B&O (sorry!), instead a range of products which integrate with consumer electronics and take design inspiration from art, fashion and furniture.

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11 Jan 2012
Victorinox’s £2,000 Swiss Army Knife with 1TB Flash Drive

This week at the CES conference in Las Vegas, Victorinox unveiled a new range of their iconic Swiss Army knives featuring a new tool – a flip-out flash drive.

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27 Oct 2011
Nokia Lumia 800

Nokia’s latest attempt to take on the iPhone is now available to pre-order.  The Lumia 800 (shipping in November) is a strikingly designed smartphone running Windows Phone OS 7.

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22 Oct 2011
Lighter Cufflinks

Both a very cool gadget and a serious fire hazard, these cufflinks are fully operational miniature petrol lighters.

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5 Jul 2011
iBamboo Speaker.  Really.

Surely one of the weirder ways to amplify your iPhone’s puny speaker is to stick it into a piece of bamboo and let the sound resonate through the woody tube like some sort of hi-tech didgeridoo.  However, if that idea floats your boat you might just be interested in the iBamboo.

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4 Mar 2011
Apple iPad 2

On Wednesday Apple announced the eagerly-awaited successor to it’s hugely popular (if initially deemed pointless) tablet computer.  The creatively-named iPad 2, set to go on sale in the UK on 25th March is a logical progression from the first version, and looks set to become the must-have gadget of 2011.

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1 Mar 2011
Mix in style with the Hoerboard Scomber Mix DJ Table

DJs: Looking for an alternative to that wobbly pasting table which makes your records skip all over the place?  Perhaps your other half is fed up of your decks sat in the corner of the living room uglying the place up?  This might be just what you need…

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4 Feb 2011
Throw away the cables with the Altec Lansing inMotion Air

While it might be rocking some seriously 80’s styling, the inMotion Air from Altec Lansing could still be just the ticket for bringing your music collection kicking and screaming into 2011.

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18 May 2010
Rock out with Grandad…

Sometimes a gadget comes out that makes you think “Why wasn’t that invented a hundred years ago?!” In this case it pretty much was, albeit not as an iPhone accessory.  What you’re looking at is the iVictrola – essentially a gramophone attachment for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

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27 Jan 2010
The Apple iPad – “Magical & Revolutionary”?

Apple announced their much-hyped tablet computer a few hours ago, dubbed the “iPad”.  It’s pretty much an oversized iPod Touch, down to the App Store lock-in and inability to multitask.