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Sony Playstation 3 40GB

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Due to be released on Wednesday 10th October, finally a cheaper Playstation 3 model at £300. Around a £125 saving can be had if you buy the cut down version of the PS3. So lets get down to the important bit what’s been cut from the model.
Backwards Compatibility with PS2 Games
So your not going [...]

Intempo Wireless Internet Radio

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

This is the first offering from Intempo for wireless Internet Radio and it lets you tune in to over 5,000 radio stations by scanning the entire local and global networks. The GX-01 will even let you stream audio from your laptop or PC so you are always in touch with your tune collection. With [...]

BBC TV Internet Service for Free

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Set to change how people view TV forever the BBC launched its online service last Friday allowing people to download programs from the last week’s line up.
The new BBC online service is available at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and is free.
Certain restrictions apply though and people will not be allowed to save permanent copies of the programmes to [...]

Mira Showers

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Now it’s not often that we review something that is not your typical gadget such as a mobile phone, mp3 player or the new toy in the gaming world… but there is something to be said about the Mira range of electric and power showers.
To many people you will not really have thought about [...]

Extended Warranty on Xbox 360 ’s

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

And about time too… we can hear a great crowd of people shouting. The standard warranty on an Xbox 360 will now be increased from a year to 3 years and will be given free to all customers who experience a problem.
This hasn’t come as a huge surprise now that you think about it, [...]

Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Why is it that we always have to wait for new technology to arrive in Europe when our gaming counterparts across the pond get everything first. We refer to the Xbox 360 Elite that was released in the US stores at the end of April. In Europe we will have to wait until at least [...]

Where Has Techlounge Been?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Our regular readers will have noticed that Techlounge has been a bit quiet over the last couple of months, and some of you will be wondering what we have been up to.
No excuses really… just that lots of other work came up which meant we didn’t have the time to review the products that we [...]

Playstation 3 Uk Launch

Monday, January 29th, 2007

It’s what we have all been waiting for, the news of the launch date for the Playstation 3. So a date to put in your diary is March 23rd 2007.
This is very exciting as what makes the PS3 different from the likes of the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii is the Blu-ray drive and [...]

Nintendo Wii Wrist Strap Recall

Friday, December 15th, 2006

There has been much hype and excitement over the launch of the Nintendo Wii with it’s revolutionary Wii controller. As with all consoles that get released these days it seems, there is a problem with it.
It seems that the wrist strap is weak and therefore causes the controller to be launched across rooms striking objects, [...]

TickMe - New Social Networking Site

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

After telling you about the Pixelotto site last week I thought I’d let you know about an exciting new social networking site called TickMe that launched very recently.
Forget about MySpace and FaceParty as these are getting fairly dated and abused now. This new site brings in the much needed extra level of privacy as well [...]