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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»

O2 today announced that they would be cutting the price of the iPhone by £100 ($200) to £169 this week. The move comes shortly after German iPhone provider T-Mobile cut the handset price to a mere 99 Euros, thats around £70 or $140 to you or me.

The Reasoning begind this is as yet undecided. Some people say it is due to an imminent release of a 3G version of the iPhone, others think it may be due to Nokias announcement that they soon will be replacing an iPhone killing device… Continue Reading»

Jonas Sampson is a world renowned designer in lifestyle goods that mix technology with style. Today he proves this with his release of Light Emitting Wallpaper that will make its debut this year at a Milan Design Festival. This wallpaper not only houses an infinate array of designs but it can also be switched off and leave the wallpaper jsut as it would be without the lights.

Infact the only downside I can see to this amazing looking technology that can easily keep a whole room well lit is the sole… Continue Reading»

When Sony first announced their HD DVD format, otherwise known as Blu-ray they said it would be uncrackable for 10 years, minimum.  It does however seem that our friends at Skysoft had already cracked it in November, they were simply waiting to see which format won the war before releasing a new version of their software.

Personally I think this is a good thing, not for the aspect of people burning their own copies of Blu-ray movies, but more because I hate the fact that Sony is always… Continue Reading»

Most of the time I find myself addicted to Digg. I spent hours together on digg, analyzing the stories that hit the front page regularly, users whose stories hit the FP more often, so on and so forth. These tools help me to make my digg experience better and also look beneath the stories that are submitted to digg. Let me get direct to the list:

SocialBlade:

Created by a digg user, this shows you the stories that have hit the Digg frontpage, the number of diggs… Continue Reading»

A few months ago we did a report on the US Armys Latest Robotic Killing machine SWORDS. It seems however that after several uses in combat it has begun to train its gun on friendly soldiers. Uhoh! Fortunately in these cases the soldiers have managed to subdue the machine before anyone was hurt, but even so the blunder could have been devestating for the US Military Department. Continue Reading»