Digital cameras overtake rivals

Sales figures taken from the Dixons store group have shown that the sale of digital cameras have, for the first time ever, overtaken that of conventional 35mm camera sales. The record figures came during the month of April, a time that represents a peak month for camera sales as consumers get ready to head off to the sun on their summer holidays, and the figures from Dixons suggests that holidaymakers are giving up photo developing in favour of a digital alternative. "This is a sea change in consumer photography," said Ian Ditcham, marketing director at Dixons. ...more

An Oscar for the Toy Story crew

One of the best DVD packages around at the moment is the Toy Story Toy Box, containing both movies and a host of extras. So it comes as no surprise that Pixar is being recognised for its software developments. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will be presenting an Oscar for scientific and technical achievements to Pixar for their Renderman software. ...more

BenQ launches jewelry-inspired Joybee 102R digital audio player

BenQ has launched what it claims is the world's smallest digital music player - probably. Although the unsubstantial claim may be in the best tradition of Carlsberg ads, the Joybee 102R digital audio player is undoubtedly very very small at just 8mm thick and a radius of 20.5mm. ...more

Nvidia launches its GeForce 6800 series of desktop GPUs

Graphics chip designers Nvidia has launched its GeForce 6800 series of GPUs for desktops. The company claims that the new models offer eight times the floating-point shader power, four times the shadow processing power and double the vertex processing power over its GeForce FX chips. The key to the 6 series is a 16-pipeline superscalar architecture and built-in GDDR3 memory and an on-chip video processing engine aimed at delivering high-definition video and DVD playback. ...more

MP3 music in your wallet

Bantam Interactive has announced it will start selling two credit-card sized digital audio players in the UK from next month. The BA350 will cost approximately ?179 including VAT and offers 128MB of memory on which to store your tunes. There's an SD slot if you want to add more capacity. ...more