Had a bit of fun tonight in Harvey Norman. Poppy & I dashed down there to purchase two low-tech items (a rice cooker & a wired (yes wired...) telephone. It's a huge store with a lot on display and as it was relatively quiet for late-night shopping I stayed a few moments longer to survey the scene for anything new and remarkable. Saw two men sitting in a lounge having a good time with a white wireless keyboard operating the Sony Living Room PC on a beautiful crisp high definition 40 inch Bravia. They kindly handed over the controls so I could have a play. It's pretty swish I have to say.
It's a sexy, circular apple-white round device that plugs into your television. It runs Vista Home premium and has a 500g hard drive (more than enough for all your photos, music & podcasts etc), 2gb memory and a drive that will play blue-ray movies should you so desire. Currently priced at $2399.00.
The picture was perfect and unlike most demo models in these stores the computer was actually online so we could test it out. Feeling like a girl in a candy store I zoomed as quickly as possible over to this blog to see how it looked. Apologies for the poor light photo but it was taken on my Treo. Of course it wasn't too long before a salesman came over to enquire if he could help - I didn't take Poppy's advice and bookmark the blog but I did leave it minimised as I walked away.
Look you don't need to buy the Sony Bravia to go with it - if you have a high definition television already that will work. While I wouldn't recommend it for bringing 'work' into the living room there would be times when it would definitely have advantages. I briefly imagined being able to sit with the kids and surf on the large screen planning our Christmas Holiday. It would be fun to play Scrabulous against Granny & Grandpa in England as well, and it would be nice to check out the surf down at the beach before venturing out in this wild weather. I'm sure there are lots of terrific applications - if you had such a set-up how would YOU use it?
Seeing as I scored a new little blue nano last week for my birthday I doubt Valentine's Day will bring the new iPod touch!! Funnily enough I had been canvassing opinions of the 'touch' in the last few days and the general thought was 'really nice but not enough gigs....'. The classic has 80 or 160 - really you can store your digital world on something like that but the 16GB touch was just not quite enough. Hot off the press Apple have introduced not only new applications for the 'touch' but also doubled the storage capacity up to 32GB. New apps - mail, maps, weather, notes & stocks. Not bad...... a cool $629 at the 
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Found in my bookmarks from last year! I love this idea and am going to get it together to finally order a few - great presents. These 
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