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Swedish flirts find a new home

Digital Living As of today, the company is bringing its members into the online virtual world of Second Life, with their own dedicated island, their own wardrobes and integration between their current Playahead online profile and their Second Life account.

23 September 2006, 9:00

Living in a fantasy world

Digital Living Nobody listened then, but now they have to: the incredible success of the online game World of Warcraft has brought Mr Fraser-Robinson's obsession out of his bedroom and into Business Week, New Scientist and Newsnight, as mainstream media grapple...

10 July 2006, 12:16

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living Finally there was a special table surface that allowed him to place his Windows mobile phone on it and create a virtual full screen and keyboard. All of this was cool, and drew some murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, but there comes a point...

6 January 2006, 9:57

Chatting in the third dimension

Digital Living Instead of being limited to emoticons and text, you can move around in a virtual 3D space and chat via cartoon speech bubbles that appear over your avatar's head, complete with a huge range of body types, costumes and backgrounds.

8 August 2006, 17:33

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living The site captures the artist's personal style, from the mixing studio in which virtual Prince resides to the distinctive spelling on the site (for example: "4 tech support, please emale"). When he died in 1991, genius Miles Davis was convinced that...

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 15:48

Which 40-inch Sony LCD TV should I buy?

Digital Living For example, the X2000 has picture-in-picture support and Virtual Dolby Surround Pro Logic II. I'm a bit confused by the difference between the Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000 and the KDL-40X2000. There seems to be a marked price difference.

2 August 2007, 10:20

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living There were some fun toys: a VKB Bluetooth Virtual in the kitchen, which allows you to type on a flour-covered surface, to check a recipe online, say (we've all done it, right? The UK arm of Microsoft has rented a gorgeous £5m west London pad in...

2 June 2005, 18:10

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living They know we're paralysed with choice and hang by the edge of the swimming pool, scared to explore their vast virtual warehouses without someone to hold our hand. You spend a third of your day working, a third of the day sleeping, and you have...

26 October 2005, 12:48

Taking your television for a drive

Digital Living With my Telewest IP connection I can interact with Web sites in countless different ways, writing, messaging, sending emails, chatting live, even creating an avatar and flying around in virtual space.

25 July 2006, 17:11

CeBIT 2006: It's all about the stuff

Digital Living Some people will be happy with on-demand access to a virtual library of movies, but some will still want to line up the discs on their shelves, in alphabetical order or by genre, or with the cover artwork on display.

8 March 2006, 15:02

Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Everything was controlled with touch-sensitive displays and a funky LCD remote control with virtual buttons. We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech fisticuffs, but because they're often completely unjust.

23 July 2007, 10:49