The Museum of Lost Interactions opens door to the past

A new online museum gives lovers of technology a glimpse into the devices and gadgets of old. The Museum of Lost Interactions, which contains electronic artefacts discovered by students at the University of Dundee, has become popular around the world, according to its creators. Among the items on display are an early music downloading tool from the 1920s called an Acoustograph and the 1950s Zenith Radio Hat. ...more

iPod joins fashion

Apple's iPod may already be the smartest portable music player around, but its place amongst the elite of the fashion world has been cemented by Christian Dior and its designer Hedi Slimane. Style.com reports that Slimane was driven to design the case as he had nowhere suitable to keep his own iPod - which, to his credit, is packed with tunes from The Smiths, Blondie and The Clash. ...more

Intel cuts ribbon for Core 2 Duo processors

Today is the day that Intel officially cuts the ribbon on its next-gen, dual-core desktop processors the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors. The wraps came off a fortnight ago, when we also gave the technical lowdown on the new design. The company is releasing the first five desktop models of the dual-core version of its Core micro-architecture-based chip, promising a 40 percent increase in performance while being 40 per cent more energy efficient than its predecessors. ...more

Adobe gets Creative with new design tools

Contrary to what you might have been led to believe, your next Adobe upgrade won't have a number. At least, if you use any of Adobe's key design applications, you'll be ditching those incremental figures for a simple 'CS'. No more sixes and sevens; the order of tomorrow is the Creative Suite. ...more

HP sets out roadmap for Blu-ray enabled products

Hewlett Packard has revealed that it is to include Blu-ray Disc technology across a swathe of its products from the end of next year. Amongst the ranges earmarked to include the new drives are consumer desktop and notebook PCs, personal workstations and digital entertainment centres. Blu-ray lets you record, rewrite and playback up to 50GB of data on a single dual-layer disc (as opposed to 4. ...more