2007 November

Sony is yet again re-releasing the PlayStation 2, this one is going to be a lot slimmer and smaller than the original PS2.
The new model has a built-in power supply and is expected to cost just $129 or £75.
The console is due out early 2008.
More can be found here.
[tags]PS2, Playstation, Sony, 2008, New[/tags]

Da Vinci’s Last Supper has now been immortalized and digitized. On October the 28th the image went live allowing people to view the extraordinary painting in greater detail than if they were to go there themselves .

This allows people to study the painting at their own leisure and for people further on in time to see [...]

For the past month I have loved watching Yahtzee Croshaw.  He is a fast talking British born Australian writer currently working for The Escapists Magazine.  He reviews a game every week and enjoys picking out all of the bad points and telling ways in which they can be improved or thrown out all [...]

EA have announced that they have donated the original SimCity game to OLPC so they can install it on their low cost laptop.
“‘SimCity’ is entertainment that’s unintentionally educational. Players learn to use limited resources to build and customize their cities. There are choices and consequences, but in the end, it’s a creativity tool that’s only [...]

Today the ever popular Demonoid.com was shut down again by the CRIA after threats were made to Demonoids ISP; visitors are now confronted with this message.
“The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your [...]

The British military are getting ready to launch their latest satellite called Skynet 5B into space. The total cost of this project is £3.6bn. The new satellite will help improve communications with the British forces stations around the world especially with the Afghan conflict.
It is said that 5B has two and [...]

I was recently stumbling through the web one night and I came across something rather surprising. I had to do some research to see if this was true and it turns out that it was. In today’s money that would equate to about $11,415.77!
I was surprised to see that hardware cost that much [...]

The world’s first wireless memory card has been produced, and for $99.99 you can pick up a 2GB card that will transfer your photos wirelessly to your PC or Mac.
“Digital cameras have made it extremely easy to take pictures, but the rest of the process is a hassle,” said Jef Holove, chief executive officer of [...]

InterfaceLIFT
I would like to draw your attention to a great website that I have been using for quite a while to get all of my wallpapers from.
The website is called InterfaceLIFT and it offers free high quality and high resolution images, they also have a category’s for the PSP, iPod and iPhone and support resolutions [...]

Well it seems that the iPhone is causing quite a stir in Europe with most of the major phone companies worried about being able to compete with the iPhone.
Darren Waters of BBC News reports:
Apple’s iPhone may have only been on release for a few months but it is making waves in the global mobile industry. [...]