The next big thing

iPad Mini from £269 (16GB)If anyone ever doubted that Apple had kicked off a revolution with the launch of the original iPad, this week has proved that the tablet market is coming of age.In the run-up to the critical pre-Christmas sales period, ...

Of all the facts and figures in this article on the rise of streaming and the death of discs, one is scarier than all the others. No, I’m not referring to all those stats – though they’re admittedly frightening – that track in gory detail the ...

Can glasses-free 3D TV succeed where existing technologies have struggled? Indeed, will TVs able to deliver stereoscopic images without eyewear take off as viable consumer products, or are they destined to remain as attention-grabbing ...

Products to turn your smartphone into controls for all sorts of things are all the go at the moment: not only can you turn it into a home remote with the likes of ThinkFlood's RedEye or Gear4's UnityRemote, it can also become a security device ...

With the first receivers arriving with 4K2K upscaling, we're already getting questions about whether now's the time to buy a TV, or if it's worth holding off until 4K2K screens, able to deliver 4096x2160-pixel resolution, hit the shops. No, ...

There's no shortage of ways to get your music from Point A to Point B on a home network, from UPNP/DLNA server software and suitable clients to proprietary solutions such as Apple's AirPlay. I’ve had good results using Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil ...

A bit over a month back, we ran a news story about Gear4's UnityRemote, a £99 package designed to turn your Apple iThingy into a universal remote control handset.At first glance it looked similar to the ThinkFlood RedEye system I'd written about ...

Let's get the obvious out of the way right at the start: yes, it is a very silly name.Rocketfish is a house-brand of Best Buy, the massive US-based electrical/consumer electronics retailer with big blue stores all over the States – and in Canada, ...

Just announced this morning is Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo, which brings together live TV with catch-up, on-demand programming and web-based applications, all bundled with a 1TB personal video recorder able to store up to 500 hours of ...

 Get down, Shep! So, nearly 70% of people under 25 admit to communicating by text or email with someone in the same house.That's according to the latest research by Best Buy, which has been investigating our attitudes to technology.Now don't ...