Jay Garrett’s Gadget News

The founders of The Pirate Bay, one of the best directories for BitTorrents, have been broadsided by charges of conspiracy to break copyright law in their homeland, Sweden.
Before now they’ve managed to dodge anything like this as they don’t actually hold any dodgy stuff on their server - instead they just act as a go-between.
The 4 are having their collars [...]

Here’s a turn up - we’ve seen plenty of phones with GPS so now Garmin have gone all flip-reverse on us and released a phone!
It’s a handsome beast to be honest and has really come up to the big boys and said - “whatcha got?”
The ‘nüvifone’ can be best described as an iPhone-alike that incorporates the bits [...]

You love Halo?  You got quite excited when the weapons were shown at CES?
Corgi is going to bring them over to the UK!!! 
The Laser Pursuit guns, which are based on the Conevnant weapons will cost between £49.99 and £79.99 and appear later in the year.

The Covenant weapons provide  you with vibration, sound, light and even recoil to get [...]

Now, most Mac owners I know are of the designery persuasion and, as such, aesthetics are all important.
Minimalist desks, clean lines, design icon chairs - you know the type.
Well this is right up their avenue!  It’s the LowKey Stand from Macessity.
Buit from 0.1085-inch thick steel and coated to coordinate with your machine.  As well as having a hiding [...]

Hmmmm……..look at it.
Let me get this out of my pocket and show you it’s glossy black finish.
Check out its 320 gig capacity.
Sorry - but it is darn sexy aint it?  As well as the humungous data storage in a 5 ounce body the drives are bus powered so they don’t need an external power adapter!
Equipped [...]

I seem to be writing quite a bit about cameras lately - what with the ones I’ve posted on here together with writing bits ‘n’ pieces on DSLRBlog.com.
So, what’s this one all about then?
What you have here is a compact snapper from Fujifilm.  The 10-megapixel S8100fd.
So?  Well it will sucker-punch you with its 18x zoom - [...]

Asus has announced it is planning to launch a whole ”family” of Eee products.
The new Eeefferings are to include the E-DT (DeskTop), E-TV and an E-Monitor.
This was announced by Jerry Shen, president of Asustek and he says that the new devices will apparently keep the same low-cost price points as the Eee itself.
The E-DT is a PC to [...]

You probably won’t be seeing TVcompass’s SR 1500 released looking exactly like this and it probably wont have that name either as it is a “white label design” for the moment.
This WiFi-enabled unit has a QVGA display and runs on Windows CE.
The SR 1500 pulls device codes from the web using the built-in browser, which supports Flash and J2ME by-the-way!.  [...]

Pentax have definitely stepped up to the mark in no uncertain terms!
The all new K20D is much more than a mere step up from the K10. Gird your loins lens monkeys!! It’s time to get dirty.
Lets start with the obscene 15.1-meg CMOS sensor, add in the increasingly popular Live View, mix it up [...]

Sometimes people should really think before getting all het up methinks. Judge for yourselves - I’d be interested in your opinions.
As I’ve mentioned in earlier items, the finger is being pointed at the ISP’s now for file sharing but U2’s manager of 30-years, Paul McGuinness, goes even further in a talk at the [...]

Lets get one thing straight from the start - these are NOT bought for fashion - obviously. 
So why should you put down £130-£150 on these trainers?
If, like me, the festive seasons binging is still gathered around your midrift and your life hasn’t got room for gym sessions and the like; then these may be worth [...]

Tosh is on a bit of a run at the moment and their latest offering is surly gonna round of Jan 08 quite nicely thank you.
The Portégé M700 is the first tablet in the dual accented range to have touch screen technology.
You can navigate around the twist-turny screen with a waft of your fingertips, using the display as [...]

From the people that brought you their gaming revolutionary Zboard; Ideazon’s back with the altogether sleeker Merc Stealth keyboard.
Instead of a swappable keyset, the Stealth has an extra-wide body with special gaming keys built into the left side.
Basically they give you a second set of the keys that you’re most likely to use when playing FPS-type PC [...]

It sounded too good to be true but I, like a lot of other people, were prepared to suspend disbelief in the hope that the industry had come around to the idea of sharing music (or that we had come even closer to the ‘Music Like Water’ Utopia that Gerd Leonnhard the Music Futurist described back [...]

NokNok have just discovered that you can now lay your hands on the entire YouTube library via your Nokia blower thanks to the all new app available direct from the video sharing site itself.
At the moment, this means that punters packing an N95, N73 or E65 can get on board, but NN reckon that other Symbian S60 [...]

In yet another move by the major labels The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has called for the European Union to force internet service providers (ISPs) to crack down on music piracy.
In its annual report the industry body said paid-for music downloads rose 40% last year but this was not enough to compensate [...]

Warner and New Line have already told HD-DVD where it can go and now the high street giant that is Woolworths has confirmed that it’s backing Blu-Ray all the way as well!!
They’re setting up to remove any trace of HD-DVD from their shelves from March and go all out in their support of Sony’s format. 
It sounds like [...]

Finally the long awaited release of Samsung’s GX-20 DSLR to the UK is G for Go!
As we’ve known for a while, the DSLR is a 14.6-megapixel snapper with a 2.7-inch live view LCD; it has RAW and JPEG modes, sensor-based image stabilization, and ISO settings up to 3200, as well as some other equally impressive [...]

There are a variety of portable keyboards out there now from roll up types to the laser projected ones.  But if they appear a tad on the expensive side still and you have an old/spare regaular keyboard hanging around………………
Remove the inner membrane from an unwanted set of keys, make sure the control board is accurately [...]