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Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living We often explore music as we do art and many other forms of self-expression in the early part of our lives, when our place in the world is unsure, and we are growing tremendously and experimenting with different ways of being ourselves.

16 September 2006, 8:00

Nokia 7280

Digital Living Nokia's 7280 Art Deco-style phone tends to arouse strong feelings. It's made of glossy black plastic, with white and silver accents and two patches of a black, suede-like fabric. Sounds daft, but we rather like it.

15 May 2005, 13:26

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living Whenever vendors at CES in either the Blu-ray or HD-DVD camp showed off their video, they tried to make the experience more impressive by pumping out incredibly loud audio using state-of-the-art surround-sound speaker set-ups.

11 January 2006, 15:45

End the gadget madness and put the iPod down

Digital Living Public space is no longer shared, it's annexed -- using state-of-the-art personal tech weapons. We have to stop the gadget menace now, before it's too late. This iPod thing is not a fad. It's not a craze.

18 March 2006, 8:00

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living I tried creating some rudimentary ASCII art, but it just wasn't the same as a ganking noobs with a twink on World of Warcraft. My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and my life is spent ritually worshipping my electronic devices.

Tags: london, wars, cleaning, string

14 June 2007, 17:23

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living It allows people to customise their pages with art called 'stickers' for which it charges, and keeps track of the usual social networking metrics, like buddies and visitors, as well as allowing users to exchange virtual goods as gifts.

8 August 2006, 17:33

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living Aim for the headWhile we're on the subject, it's worth mentioning that practicing the black art of head shots is probably the best way to improve your skills at Halo 2. Dual-wielding is obviously the biggest addition to the Halo gameplay formula in...

13 July 2005, 17:38