Olympus shares vision with Toshiba

One of the hottest gadgets around at the moment is the Olympus Eye-Trek series of head-mounted displays. These goggles can be connected to Toshiba's portable DVD player for home entertainment on the move. Olympus shares vision with Toshiba One of the hottest gadgets around at the moment is the Olympus Eye-Trek series of head-mounted displays. ...more

The P4 just got faster

Still on target for 3GHz Pentium 4s by the year's end... ...more

Sony to extend its CD DRM experiment

Sony BMG, the music arm of the consumer electronics giant, is stepping up the introduction new anti-copying software for a range of its music CDs. A total of ten CD titles, covering over a million produced copies, have now been introduced using DRM software from a British company. In February, the company announced that it would be using the XCP (eXtended Copy Protection) technology from UK based First4Internet. ...more

Nintendo announces Gameboy Advance release date

Forget the Xbox and the Gamecube, the console everyone wants to get their hands on has got to be the Gameboy Advance. Start saving your pennies now as Nintendo has just announced the date and street price of this updated version of its mega-popular Gameboy handheld games machine. The new 32-bit colour machine will be coming to Europe on June 22 and will cost a reasonable 130 Euros (that's about ?80, but don't count on the UK price being that!). ...more

BBC online gears up for complete and collaborative overhaul

The BBC is planning a radical overhaul of its website along the lines of collaborative, interactive sites such as the phenomenally popular MySpace.com. In a presentation entitled Beyond Broadcast, Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media and technology, launched a competition - open. ...more