
Time for our semi-regular review of product releases, announcements and sheer rumours from the world of consumer electronics. What's happening out there?
Well, for those interested in e-books, rumours of the appearance of Amazon's
Kindle in the UK this December will catch the eye. It's being tipped to gain 3G and Wi-Fi support, with likely candidates for the carrier apparently being T-Mobile and O2.
Starting at the "toy" end of the gadget spectrum, note the
USB Star Trek Communicator, and the
"London Calling" mobile phone shaped like the traditional red phone boxes... Then there is also talk, according to
SlashGear, of Sony revealing "plans to add facial recognition capabilities to their
PlayStation Eye webcam, potentially stealing part of Microsoft's Project Natal thunder".
Getting a bit more serious, there is what claims to be the "worlds smallest memory card reader", the
device being almost no bigger than a Micro SD card itself (it actually supports Micro SD, T-Flash, and Micro SDHC formats).
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