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Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living It's a fantasy in which mankind samples the exotic delights of a huge and expanding universe: yet another amusing planet in Star Trek; the cantina in Star Wars; the guilty pleasures of the Culture's worlds in the novels of Iain M.

26 October 2005, 12:48

Canon HV10

Digital Living Is this little camcorder a big star? Take £800 out of your pocket and you should have space for the Canon HV10, a compact camcorder that squeezes enough pixels on to its sensor to record 1080i hi-def video.

27 October 2006, 13:20

Daddy, what was it like to be clueless?

Digital Living Instead they succumb to the risk of wasting time all the time, faced with the moral hazard of infinite access to endless curious stuff: to Simpsons trivia, to old Star Trek episodes, to fast-food marketing campaigns, to entertainment minutiae.

10 June 2006, 9:00

Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living There is no question that Jobs is the closest thing the technology industry has to a rock star. There are certain painful issues of identity and crisis bound up in the whole business of music. There's a painful line in Cameron Crowe's excellent...

16 September 2006, 8:00

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living There are some people who feel that Star Wars got its best ever home-video release on Laserdisc, before Lucas started messing about with whether Han or Greedo shot first. We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech...

Tags: cd rom, next generation, tape, steve

23 July 2007, 10:49

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living Okay, so I had to wait while they changed costumes in between scenes and when I said afterwards that I wanted them to act out Star Wars there was a fight over who would be Darth Vader. My house is a shrine to the consumer electronics gods and my...

Tags: london, wars, cleaning, string

14 June 2007, 17:23