Picked up this banner ad from the Gizmodo site. The Taz1 portable media player from Tight Audio Systems appears to have a pretty neat spec. 4″ screen, 60GB hard drive, SD slot, 9 hours playback, video and audio, USB 2.0. Size – 6″ x 4″ x 1.5″. Still vapourware at the moment though.

The Thunderbirds and Friends site celebrates Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. With movie clips. Full of nostalgic goodness.

Wow. The NorthQ DVD Player/Hard Drive Recorder has a removable hard drive tray. Just insert your own drive and go. Now that’s what I call infinite television storage.

Blogs. Fast movin’, ever givin’, cool livin’, smooth biggin’ vanity. A round up of some stats about weblogs. ‘In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days.’

Nice Businessweek article on passive radar, including the Celldar system which uses mobile phone base stations to track vehicles and stuff just like normal radar. But at a fraction of the cost.

The ultimate home cinema set up? Or one geek’s sad dream?

You’re a shop keeper or rich homeowner. You need security against robbers. You buy SmokeCloak. Why? Because the crooks can’t see what they’re doing and leg it. Apparently.

This is a site which advises you on the best way to improve your Google rankings. ‘Simply put, the best way to get your site to score higher on Google is to put something useful there — have your site bring some benefit to someone. It is difficult to stress this enough. ‘

Ooops, sorry. FTP problems stopped stuff posting for a while. But now I’m off ferreting for a few days anyway. Back next Monday 20th Oct. Stay cool.

Love TV? Well then you’ll love the Classic TV Database. Just wallow in that nostalgia…

Here’s some interesting stuff from the CEATEC exhibition [warning:Babel] currently running in Japan – including an MP3 player watch and a slot in DV-CAM drive for your PC. This is a pretty cool idea, to simply slot your camcorder tape into the PC to capture the video to disk.

Deviant Art is an eclectic mix of user posted work, stored in nicely categorised sections. Some nice stuff to browse.

But why would you want to buy something from Amazon while you’re working in Powerpoint or Excel? Or am I missing the point…ahem…here?

The Symbols.com site offers over 2500 symbols for your delectation. That’s it really.

RIAA Radar ‘is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.’ The fight escalates….