Archive for January, 2006

Jessica Alba: America’s most wanted

The Sin City star stored 9.07 out of a possible ten in a survey, which looks at the women men would most like to share a long-term relationship with. Yeah, right


Man hides plane, claims insurance, gets caught

A New Zealand man who claimed his plane had crashed in the sea and then had to surf home using one of its doors, has been remanded on bail after being accused of defrauding his insurers


Not feeling like work today?

You’re not alone. Apparently 43 per cent of people throw a sickie on a regular basis… but when you phone up your boss with an excuse, try to not use ones as lame as these


CES 2006: Casio Exilim EX-S600 anti-shake camera

New from Casio is the Exilim EX-S600, a 6-megapixel camera with anti-shake to reduce unwanted camera wobble when shooting MPEG4 movies – a particular problem with snappers as light and thin as this 1.63cm model is


CES 2006: Casio Pathfinder PAW1200T-7V LCD watch

We’re normally pretty – no, make that exceedingly – sceptical about LCD watches, but we’ll have to make an exception in this case


CES 2006: Sony launches new Micro Vault flash drives

You can never have enough USB flashdrives, especially when they’re as good looking as the new Micro Vault models from Sony – even if the growing list of variations can be a bit befuddling on the old hungover brain


CES 2006: Panasonic SC-HT940 and SC-RT50 home cinema systems

Panasonic is building on the success of last year’s CES showstormer – its wireless home cinema system – by adding two new models which come with an interesting (and proprietary) variation on HDMI


CES 2006: Panasonic’s 103-inch 1080p Full HD TV

Panasonic wowed the crowds at CES with its biggest plasma TV to date – a 103-inch model that also happens to boast an image resolution of 1080p - the highest possible quality for a high definition set


CES 2006: Nokia heads-up for Bluetooth

We didn’t expect much from Nokia at CES 2006 and frankly we weren’t disappointed. The Finnish phone company announced just three new products and upgrades for two more


CES 2006: Blu-ray and HD DVD are go

This is it. After months – no years – of speculation, the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps have finally pulled on their boxing gloves and are going to be slugging it out in the only bare-knuckle bout that matters: the fight for the hearts, minds and, most importantly, wallets of US consumers