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The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living Step three: "A man who watches TV all day has created nothing. Try talking to your fellow man rather than texting. Hello, my name is Andrew Lim and I'm a gadget addict. My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and my life is spent...

14 June 2007, 17:23

Do Aibos dream of electric sheep?

Digital Living He asked for the robot dog, which was kept on a table when recharging, with the same anxious, 'waiting-for-the-man' urgency with which he requests his Pingu DVD. When you hear those servo-motors whine and watch its C3P0-like shuffle as it moves...

12 October 2005, 10:10

Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living Best LookingSpider-Man 2As a relatively new film, Spider-Man 2 benefits from all the latest digital jiggery-pokery to fit on UMD, and as such it looks absolutely fantastic. From essentials like memory cards and screen protectors to pimped-up...

6 September 2005, 8:45

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living When he died in 1991, genius Miles Davis was convinced that the best hope for the future of music rested in the diminutive hands of one man: Prince. Fourteen years later, Prince's music is still going strong, and there's still no one else like him.

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 15:48

The world's cheapest camcorder

Digital Living He introduced me to the marketing director of Placebo Imaging Systems, a tall, energetic man wearing thick Michael Caine-style dark framed glasses. This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas had some extraordinary companies.

17 January 2006, 11:17

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living The man behind Roma Victor, Kerry Fraser-Robinson, says that since the age of 12 he's been telling anybody who would listen that virtual worlds were going to be the next big thing in entertainment. I'm a big fan of Michael Crichton's daft 1970s...

10 July 2006, 12:16

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living Gates clearly felt he needed to lay those ghosts to rest, so this year's event had no cheeky co-host, just the man himself. Ah, the Bill Gates keynote. If you've never attended CES, this is the hot ticket the night before the show officially opens...

6 January 2006, 9:57

Don't cut the technology cord

Digital Living You check your pockets, with the forlorn hope of a man looking for a £5 note in a pair of trousers he hasn't worn for a while. Can you imagine being constantly unable to find your fridge? Picture it. You're in the living room.

25 March 2006, 8:00

Mac OS X vs Windows Vista

Digital Living Baron Vista is played by the big, brash fellow in the orange garb and Count OS X by the well-moisturised man in black. What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Why is belly button fluff always blue?

27 April 2007, 16:34

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living You'll have instant access to every episode of Desperate Housewives (which for years I've been claiming is the poor man's Dallas. The older I get, the more I loathe and detest television, and after two or three drinks I have moments of clarity when...

25 July 2006, 17:11

Web 2.0: this time it's lucrative

Digital Living One caveat: in certain situations, such as when creating a man-monster from grave-robbed body parts, the crowd may grab pitch-forks and storm the castle and burn it to the ground. Mighty forces are at work and a new Internet is slouching towards a...

1 April 2006, 9:00