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Sony’s new home theatre system, the Bravia DAV-F200 is Sonies latest home theatre offering. Designed to work seamlessly with Sony TV’s the Bravia DAV-F200 is one of teh first speakers to use Sony’s S-Force Front Surround.  The S-Force Front Surround Technology basically provides full 6 speaker surrouns from a mere two speakers + sub woofer.

In an increasing trend from Sony this device has become available in Europe before the states, done in principal to avoid the cheap export of these Items to other countries.

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The new Cellphone Home Signal Booster from ThinkGeek.com
Is one of the first Cell Phone Signal Boosters for the Home User.

I have installed a test version of the Home Cellphone Signal Booster in my parents house as they often complain about poor cell phone reception in their home, I was pretty surprised to find that as soon as I plugged it in my phone signal went from one bar to full signal in a matter of seconds!

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I saw the LED Pillow alarm as I was browsing teh web this morning, jsut after having my alarm rattle my head, and I couldn’t help but think ‘Genius Idea!’

Then two things hit me, first off i have a tendance to sleep on my back, and secondly that if three rather noisy vocal alarms can wake me up what chance does this have?

So in the spirit of enquiry I borrowed a light emitting alarm off a friend who had recommended it.  I was quite surprised when i used… Continue Reading»

Here at GeekyWood we have reviews of the worst and the best gadgets, and this little technology snippet is unfortunately one of the worse.

The iDAB is advertised as a mini digital radio gadget that attaches to your iPod, technically giving your iPod DAB (Digital Radio) functionality.

In reality when we tested the iDAB unit it was not actually part of the iPod, it didn’t use the iPods screen, navigation buttons or even its headphone socket.

Instead it sat on the iPod and used it as an expensive battery, occasionally falling off to… Continue Reading»

The new Micro SD Card portable projector available from Drink Stuff Is probably one of the best releases I have seen in a long time.  Costing only £99 ($198) It is basically a small projector that runs off 4 AA batteries and can play movies off SD Cards. Its a damn small unit measuring 165mm long and 105mm wide.  Its screen size is fairly limited at around one metre square , but lets face it this is a handy portable device, not for a serious home projection… Continue Reading»

A lot of TV Viewers who are hooked on their DVR/Hard Drive Recorders have been extremely annoyed of late since CBS’s survivor has repeatedly failed to record on many peoples Digital TV Recording Equipment, wether it be DVRs or DVD/HD Recorders.

While CBS have denied purposely blocking peoples recorders this does leave rather a serious question…

Can TV Broadcasters prevent you from recording shows?

The short answer is ‘yes’.  They have the technology and the ability to stop your device from picking up when to start recording, and even stop it immediately after it begins.

You then have to ask a rather more important… Continue Reading»

It has just been announced that Apple have finally pulled it’s finger out with the iPod Touch, they will be equipping it with a masssive 32GB of flash memory, thats 7000 songs or 40 hours of video to the less geeky among you.

This a fantastic boost toa gadget that was already, and this is coming from someone who was against Apples products and their DRM on release, Shit Hot. With Crystal Clear sound quality, a sharp crisp screen, reflexive touch screen and a spot on intuitive directory… Continue Reading»