If the World financial crisis hasn’t wiped you out yet you might wish to help Rolex celebrate their 100th birthday.They’re celebrating with the launch of an update to their flagship chronograph — the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day/Date II. The new model sports a larger 41mm dial (3mm larger than its predecessor), eight diamonds  and you get [...]

This clam-shell-style phone seems to be inspired by rotary dial phones of old but with a front face display and OLED display this gadget from China Mobile Phones incorporates all the features we expect in a modern phone including Bluetooth earphone. As well as all the normal software the phone includes secure caller options which screens [...]

Images and stats have surfaced around BenQ’s long-awaited high-end S6 MID along with a product page in English suggesting an imminent World-wide launch! The S6 comes with a wealth of features including an 800MHz Intel Atom CPU, 4.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, 512MB DDR2 RAM, a 2GB SSD, Bluetooth 2.0 / WiFi, microSD slot, inbuilt [...]

OLED technology has been a buzz-word all year since Sony amazed us with their OLED TV technology at the Consumer Electronics show in January. Well they’ve now gone one step better with the demonstration of a flexible version only 0.3mm thick! Sony has been showing its wares at CEATEC Japan 2008 and the big crowd-pleaser has [...]

The nice people at foreverbetter.co.uk have furnished me with a Miele CVA 3650 ST coffee machine for the last three weeks. I’m a caffeine-pumped twitching freak at the best of times so the prospect of graduating from supermarket brands to the proper stuff set my taste-buds throbbing! The Package The machine came in a box containing the [...]

LG has launched their KP500 claiming that it’s price, which they won’t tell us, is the lowest for a touchscreen phone. LG says: “despite its low price tag, this attractive phone has the latest touch technology and features normally found in high-end handsets.” The company goes on to describe the quad-band KP500 as “slim and lightweight, with a [...]

A Swiss man has become the first to cross the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing after jumping out of a plane at 8200 feet. [eminimalls prosucts="wings"] Yves Rossy is a 49-year-old former military pilot you used to fly Mirage fighters for the Swiss army and now flies an Airbus. Mr Rossy aimed to reach speeds of [...]

Panasonic has today added the F8 to its range of ‘Toughbook’ rugged laptops which it claims is the world’s lightest 3G-ready notebook at 3.7 pounds. [eminimalls products="rugged laptop"] The Toughbook range of laptop models have historically come with the following rugged features: Magnesium alloy chassis Spill-resistant keyboard Flexible internal connectors Thesse machines are designed to survive a fall of 12 inches [...]

Leica has now launched the S2 which contrary to its 35mm format appearance sports a 37.5MP CCD sensor — 56% larger than a full-frame SLR camera. Despite its extraordinary specification it fits comfortably in the hand. [eminimalls products="dslr camera"] The Leica S2 will also utilize the Maestro image processing system: The new ‘Maestro’ image processing system provides twice [...]

The official launch of the iRex 1000 Series e-reader has taken place in Amsterdam and this design differs from the earlier iLiad format in being a huge 10 1/2 inches diagonal allowing a full A4 page to be displayed on the page with legible text! This makes the 1000-series the largest format readers on the [...]

The Apple ‘Brick’ project rumoured to be announced on 14th October may take the form of a new Mac Mini box  redesigned to imitate the larger Mac Pro desktop machines. [eminimalls products="apple mac mini"] The current Mac Mini come loaded with: 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 1GB memory 120 GB hard drive Price: $799 The Photoshop mock up images show the [...]

Much to Nokia’s chagrin, a number of images and a movie have been leaked onto the blogosphere depicting the upcoming E72 and E75 smartphones — and very sexy-looking they look too! [eminimalls products="smartphone"] Both these models are still in development so this leak will be a major inconvenience to Nokia to say the least. The E72 is a [...]

As traffic levels in our cities increase and the cost of running petroleum-fueled vehicles makes using them every day ever more prohibitive an electric/pedal hybrid bicycle starts to look like a good idea. Enter the Electrobike Pi. [eminimalls products="bicycle"] The Electrobike Pi supplements your pedaling efforts with 500 Watts of battery power increasing your average speed and [...]

Panasonic claims to have released the World’s first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the Lumix DMC G1, weighing in at only 385 grams making it only half the weight of typical DSLRs! [eminimalls products="lumix camera"] This means, in effect, that the G1 is the smallest digital interchangeable lens camera, achieving its low weight and smaller size by [...]

If you need a powerful quality desktop speaker system for your PC that takes up a minimum footprint this could be just what you’re looking for. The Expressionist BASS integrates subwoofers within the free-standing desktop elements rather than a separate woofer box. [eminimalls products="desktop speakers"] The shape of the units is supposed to contribute to the acoustic [...]