Skype gadgets

It’s been a week now since the UK launch of the Three INQ¹ phone, and there’s been plenty of discussion of the new handset in the blogosphere. It’s based on the same platform as the 3 Skypephone, and so has the same level of Skype integration – you can call your contacts on Skype directly from your address book, for example. On top of that, it also connects to Facebook, making it easy to keep in touch on the move.

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Over the last week we’ve seen some fun coverage of the 3 Skypephone S2. A few bloggers have been lucky enough to get hold of sneak previews of the handset, and I thought I'd share some of what they’ve posted.

Photos from Neville Hobson:

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You might have caught it in Villu's post on the main blog (or even my other post on the Gear blog), but today marks the UK launch of the 3 Skypephone, a new mobile phone from 3 and Skype that makes unlimited Skype to Skype calls and chats possible anywhere you are.

3 is a pretty cool mobile operator--they seem to really understand the usefulness of having internet connectivity on your mobile, and have already been offering Skype on many of their X-Series and Mix & Match handsets.

The 3 Skypephone makes using Skype on the go easier than ever: from the time you first press the Skype button and log in, Skype is always on wherever you have mobile reception. You can make free Skype-to-Skype calls, have text chats with individuals and groups, and announce your Skype status so people know if it's a good time to call you. If you and a friend both have 3 Skypephones, you can make unlimited calls to each other via Skype (subject to a generous fair use policy).

The phone also has a great internet browser (with 3's Launcher for easy access to sites like eBay, Facebook and YouTube), music player, and mobile TV viewer.

You can get the 3 Skypephone in the UK at 3 Stores from this Friday, 2 November (or you can preorder it now). It costs £49.99 on pay as you go (and you need to top up £10 a month to keep your Skype service active), or is free on any of 3's Mix & Match tariffs, which start at £12 a month for an 18 month contract.

Check out a couple photos from the press briefing this morning after the jump.

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More news on that there X-Series phone. My Scandinavian friend Villu tells me that 3 is launching its X-Series mobile broadband package in Denmark and Sweden today, where it's notably dark and cold at this time of year, so a shiny new Skype-enabled mobile is probably very welcome.

The X-Series people have also brightened my January by biking over a Nokia N73, one of the two X-Series phones now available that comes with Skype built-in, along with other software such as Slingplayer, Yahoo Go!, 3's web browser and Windows Live Messenger.

At the weekend I shall road-test the living daylights out of it, so watch this space for review and pics.

CES may be done and dusted for another year, but it's still throwing up some Skype gems.

Wireless specialists RTX chose last year's CES to unveil its DUALphone, the world's first cordless Skype phone. And in what I hope becomes an annual celebration of all things Skype and cordless, it has now launched the DUALphone 3088, which has already garnered a near-perfect rating from visitors to Skype's website.

The DUALphone 3088 comes with Skype built-in, so you can call anywhere in the world using Skype without the need for a PC. It also serves as a traditional phone – just select the appopriate phone type on the natty user interface when you make a call.

Incidentally the phone has just been named Product of the Year 2006 by The Red Ferret Journal. It wasn't actually released until 2007, but what's a year between friends?

Update: we’ve announced a partnership with Nokia to bring Skype to Nseries devices.

Mobile giant Nokia has revealed to CES delegates that it's teaming up with Skype to create a new mobile edition of the world's favourite internet telephony software.

The new edition of Skype is being built specifically for Nokia's new N800 Internet tablet (pictured), which was also revealed and released for sale at CES. It's not going on sale just yet, but we're likely to see it in mid-2007.

"Skype is the recognized leader of Internet communications with over 136 million registered users worldwide," said Nokia's Ari Virtanen, Vice President of Convergence Products. "Nokia's new N800 Internet Tablet is designed for mobile Internet. Together, we can develop communications devices beyond expectations."

Skype took to the stage at CES today to announce no fewer than 12 new Skype-certified devices, many of which allow you to make Skype calls without a PC.

The new gizmos come from high-profile electronics names such as Philips and regular Skype partner Netgear, as well as from lesser-spotted but highly-regarded companies Asus, Ipevo and Topcom. They add to the more than 150 Skype-certified products already available worldwide.

New Skype desktop internet phones, which do away with the need for a computer, include Ipevo's Solo 1, a beautifully-designed phone with built-in speakerphone and adjustable 2.4in colour screen where you can access your Contacts list, see caller information and check your remaining Skype credit. Skype desktop internet phones also include Topcom's Webt@lker 5000, which can be configured to work in any of 14 languages.

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It's now a month since 3's fabulous new Skype-certified X-Series phones went on sale, just in time for the festive rush. (Christmas, remember that? Seems like last year already.)

An X-Series phone is for life, not just for Christmas, so Skype has launched a comprehensive guide to using it. No Skype on 3 question, Frequently Asked or otherwise, remains unanswered.

The guide starts with the basics (Q: What is Skype on 3? A: A new service that Skype and 3 are launching that allows you to access Skype from your 3 X-Series mobile phone") to the fiendish. For example, there are full instructions for opening a Skype account via the phone – because not every X-Series user already has a Skype account, or even a computer with broadband access. You'll also find advice on calling contacts in your address book, diverting calls to your 3 voicemail service, and much more.

There's also a sneak peek at features that'll soon be appearing on Skype on 3, including Skype chats, which are expected to be added to the platform later this year. Also pencilled in for a 2007 appearance is a tool for revealing who is calling you over Skype.

To sign up for the service and find out what else the X-Series phones can do, click the 'Get Skype on 3' button on Skype's guide to the 3 service. This takes you straight to 3's X-Series website, where you can view a demo and find out even more.

Skype's Gear blog has loads of details and lots of lovely photos of the two new phones in the Linksys iPhone range – their first Skype phones that don’t need PCs to run.

Both the CIT400 and the WIP 320 are priced at under $200. Here's hoping that they'll make it across the Atlantic sooner rather than later.

It's high time for an update on 3's Skypetasmogoric X-Series service, which I was lucky enough to try out in the flesh at the launch last month.

After the launch, and before any X-Series phones actually went on sale, techie types up and down the land wondered how much it would cost. Because no matter how swish and multi-talented these gizmos are, if they cost too much, no-one's going to bother.

In the event, a whole load of people are likely to bother. Gird your loins for a Tracy Island-sized stampede, folks: at a mere fiver a month plus £20 for the minimum voice and text package, this baby's going to fly off the shelves.

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Sales of Skype-compatible WiFi mobiles are flying off US shelves in a Buzz Lightyear-style Yuletide frenzy, according to American website Computer World. Could this be the shape of Christmassy things to come in the UK?

Two of the fastest-selling Skype-certified phones in the US are the WSKP100 from SMC and the catchily-named Belkin F1PP000GN-SK. Here in the UK, hot Skype gadgets like the DUALphone 3088 and Skype's £99 WiFi phone package could soon be giving Wiis and novelty cufflinks a run for their money in the Popular Pressie charts.

News reaches me via the latest issue of don't-buy-that-buy-this magazine and Thoroughly Good Read, Which?, that more than one third of us received an unwanted Christmas pressie last year.

What Which? meant to say, of course, was that every single last bloody one of us received at least one unwanted Christmas pressie last year, but that only just over a third of us admitted it. Cowards.

Smellies such as toiletries and aftershave topped the list of rubbishness, with clothes, gadgets and unwanted books bringing up the rear.

Stop this madness! Please, people: stop throwing away your money on nuclear-reactive smellies, novelty slippers, pink bathtowels and other stuff that's headed for the landfill. Think: what will save them time, hassle and money? What will give them what they really want – a cut-price hotline to their distant loved ones this Crimble?

Answer: a Skype starter kit complete with headphones, software CD and SkypeOut voucher. Then they'll be able to spend all of 25 December gassing with their favourite people, rather than trying to make conversation with ones they've been forced to spend Christmas with.

If your Christmas list is looking a bit sparse, what with its pathetic line-up of a Nintendo Wii, Panasonic Blu-ray player, Planet Earth box set, Prada handbag, Now That's What I Call Music 65 and giant Dairy Milk, then here's something to fill out the page: the DUALphone 3088 cordless phone from RTX.

The latest Skype-certified phone goes on sale at the Skype Shop from this Friday (1 December... yep, it's December already, but look on the bright side – it's nearly spring) with an RRP of £99, and it'll certainly look chipper on your sideboard.

But what's so good about it? Well, you don't need to have your computer switched on to make Skype calls using the handset. In fact, you don't even need a computer at all, though you do need a broadband router and a net connection. Ideally one that works. Unlike mine. Yes... but that's a whinge for another day. At least the net cafe is warmer than my house.

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Looking for a Christmas pressie that's useful, user-friendly, sexy in a gadget-tastic kind of way and comes in at under a hundred quid?

Here's a neat idea. Skype's £99 Wifi phone package includes everything you need to make wireless calls without a computer, and a few treats besides. You get a Wifi phone from Skype's partners SMC and a Wifi router from FON, the world's biggest Wifi community; 500 minutes of SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobiles, and a year's free Skype Voicemail. Buy all that stuff separately and it'd cost you £120, so the bundle saves you enough for a couple of new CDs and a glass or two of mulled wine. Result.

If you'd like to save even more cash without being a complete tightwad, buy your loved one a Skype cordless bundle instead – it's only £39. For that you get a cordless handset from RTX, 300 minutes of SkypeOut calls and a year's free Skype Voicemail.

Or you could buy them a pair of socks. Next year, they'll give you a set of hankies. What comes around...

The newly-announced beautiful relationship between Skype and mobile giant 3 is manna to globetrotting chat addicts... and telly addicts.

A 3G mobile phone with Skype built in, that also lets you watch and control your home TV wherever you are in the world? Yep, I’ll have one of those.

3's new X-Series phones, such as the Nokia N73 that goes on sale on 1 December, are fabulous little bundles of gadgetry. Not only do they let you make unlimited Skype calls using the 3G network, but you can also browse the web, watch your home telly using Sling (though you'll need a Slingbox for that) and access your home PC remotely with Orb.

So, is this magic gizmo any good?

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WiFi Skype phones are among the most-wanted pressies on Christmas lists this year, according to retail megalith Amazon.

Skype is right up there with Doctor Who, Jamie Oliver and Deal Or No Deal among the magic names that'll be taking up the most space in Santa's bulging sack.

OK so the phones aren't quite at number one yet, but they grab a respectable 9th place, just behind such expensively-marketed heavyweights as iPods, Nintendo Wii consoles and electronic Tardises. And it beats Microsoft Office's student edition into 10th place.

Bill Gates was unavailable for comment. He's probably just sulking.

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Belkin's Wi-Fi phone for Skype has finally touched down on UK shores, four longs months after it was first launched.

The phone's USP is that it can make Skype calls even when your computer is switched off, making it genuinely mobile – as long as you're in a WiFi hotspot. Sort of mobile, then.

Skype software is built into the handset, so you don't need to mess about downloading it, and it comes with WPA and WPA2 security. Snap one up now for £130 from Expansys.

First came pencil cases. Then came purses, alarm clocks, T-shirts, ankle socks and duvet covers. It was only a matter of time before the merchandising phenomenon that is Hello Kitty popped up on a Skype phone – and, whaddya know? She's done it just in time for Christmas. That cat's not stupid.

(I love Wikipedia's straight-faced description of Hello Kitty: "...characterized by a distinctive bow or some other decoration on her left ear, and the absence of a mouth.")

But don't get too excited, kitsch-fans. This decidedly un-macho gizmo from Perfectel, which comes bundled with Skype software, can only be bought from 7-Eleven stores in Hong Kong and Japan. The good news is that the phones only cost HK$128 (about £8.60), so, if you're really dedicated, an extra £500 for a ticket to Tokyo won't seem all that steep.

Boy racers everywhere, rejoice: there's now a Skype mouse designed – ergonomically designed, no less – to make your heart beat faster.

As you can see from the photo, the Street Mouse, complete with integrated mic, is shaped like a slick sports car with headphones sticking out of one of the wheels. Happily for car purists, you can take the headphones out and use the mouse as a speakerphone.

Along with the standard two buttons and scroll wheel, the 800dpi optical mouse has fully working LEDs in its headlights. You just hook it up to your computer via the USB port, and chat away to your Skype friends. But if you'd rather boogie than blab, the speaker's good enough for playing music from your PC.

Bottom line: the mouse will set you back a mere £21.95 from Gizoo.

Such is the groaning weight of Skype-certified gizmos on the market that the Skype overlords have had to create a whole new website to house them.

Skype's new Accessories Guide makes it easier to find the gadget of your dreams by organising all the hardware into categories, and then explaining in plain English what they do, how they can improve your Skyping, how much they cost and so on.

Under the main Accessories tab you'll find headsets, webcams and so on, while the Devices tab has all you need to know about Skype WiFi phones – top of my Christmas list, and set to change the way we make mobile calls. (The main change will be that we'll no longer need to cry into our empty wallets every time we get a mobile phone bill.)

Following yesterday's news about the mouse with the mostest from a company few of us have heard of, may I now introduce the world's first wireless Skype music phone from a company few of us have heard of.

The AiGuru S1 is the work of ASUSTeK Computer. Normally they make motherboards and things, but they're now getting in touch with their sexy side by releasing a gorgeous WiFi Skype phone that doubles as a wireless music streaming device. Mm, my precious.

The AiGuru S1 uses 802.11b/g wireless technology, so you're free to roam around your house while you chat – and you get better signal quality and wider coverage than with Bluetooth. Skype comes pre-installed, and the phone can be used for SkypeOut and SkypeIn calls. A high-quality speaker turns the gadget into an MP3 player that you can use to access and stream songs stored on your computer.

Want one? Course you do. AiGuru S1 will be available to buy from a gizmo emporium near you in October, with an RRP of £69.99.

That's a mouse.

No... that's a mouse!

The name of Taiwanese electronics maker Sysgration may not trip off too many metropolitan tongues, but those in the know are very excited about the company's new ASG 142 Skype mouse phone.

This tiny gizmo looks, works and feels like a laptop mouse, and it uses a now-standard 800 DPI optical sensor and USB connection. But then you open it up, and... yum.

Inside you'll find a diddy Skype phone. The 1.3in backlit LCD displays the names of your Skype contacts and their status, and the number keypad allows you to make SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobiles.

So, how do you get one of these fantastic things? Hm. I don't know. Google can't find them for sale anywhere in the UK, or indeed anywhere in anywhere. The product page on Sysgration's website says "patent pending", which sounds ominous. I've seen enough episodes of Dragons' Den to know that patents are kind of important. But I won't rest until I've got one of these things on my desk – so stay tuned.

BusinessWeek Online is just one of many websites that have been getting excited about a new phone from electronics giant Philips, which allows you to use Skype without having a PC at all.

The Philips VOIP841 is the first Skype cordless phone that doesn’t require support from a booted-up home PC. You plug it into your broadband connection and traditional landline, and it's all ready for Skype action. The catch? It's "expected to become available in late 2006". Oh come onnn!

An earlier Skype-compatible Philips phone, the VOIP321, combines Skype and landline calling, though it needs a Skyped-up PC running somewhere in the house. That handset was launched in January, and according to Philips it has been selling incredibly well, so the new model should be a massive hit when it reaches the market. One for the Christmas list - if Philips get their skates on.

Another day, another dishy cordless Skype phone. The big selling point of the Cordless DUALPhone from Linksys is that it works with a standard landline as well as with Skype... though why you'd want to use a standard landline when you can use Skype instead, I don't know. Answers on a cyber postcard.

The phone is very easy to use. Plug the base station into your computer's USB port, log onto Skype, and you're free to make and receive Skype calls using the handset. Your Skype contacts list shows up on the phone's colour LCD, so just select who you want to talk to and call them using Skype or SkypeOut. The phone also supports SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail.

The base station can be used with up to four handsets, which is handy if every member of the family wants a Skype phone in their room - or if you need an intercom to keep an ear on a baby sleeping upstairs. Or not sleeping, as the case may be.

The DUALPhone is available now with a price tag of £66, though it's currently on special offer from Skype's online store for £47. Get in there!

About to head off to college or university? Take a couple of Skype phones with you, courtesy of high street computer-flogger PC World. Their special £599.99 student package also includes a laptop and printer, though we imagine the average student will be too busy chatting to notice.

It's a masterstroke by PC World to include the Skype phones in the package. Parents will want their undergrad offspring to keep in touch, but those undergrad offspring will prefer to spend their Student Loan cash on books and beer than on expensive phone calls home. With Skype at their joint-stained fingertips, the students can phone Mum without it costing a bean. (Baked or otherwise.)

Look down at your work keyboard. It's rubbish, isn't it? And it probably contains enough crumbs to rebuild Elvis's last sandwich. So feast your eyes on this beauty from gizmo giants Logitech, who've launched the world's first keyboard with Skype buttons built in - and you get a mouse, headset and speakerphone thrown in.

Logitech's EasyCall Desktop has all the standard keys, plus one-touch buttons for launching Skype's software, making a call, ending a call, changing your online status and dialling a mobile or landline phone. You can even use the F9 to F12 keys for programmable speed-dialling. Not so much a keyboard as a flight deck for cutting-edge phone-fiends.

The keyboard will be available throughout Europe from mid-September, with a very reasonable price tag of £89.99.

Here's another smashing bit of Skype kit to wind up the week.

All my recent excitement about WiFi Skype phones (hey, those things are my dream come true: I love to babble, hate sitting still, and despise phone bills) may lead casual readers to assume that Skype is all about talking on the phone. But it's not, it's also about looking at people whilst talking on the phone. For free.

Skype has teamed up with Creative, makers of some excellent MP3 players that do everything an iPod can do for a lot less money, to launch the Instant Skype Edition WebCam.

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As promised yesterday, it's time for a spot of drooling over one of the WiFi mobiles recently launched by Skype's partners - the Skype WiFi Phone from Netgear.

Truly mobile Skype, in the walking-round-town-chatting-to-Mum-for-free sense, would require a workable citywide wireless network, as mentioned yesterday. And we don't have that yet in the UK (pull your finger out, providers!). But we do have a growing number of public hotspots, where the Netgear phone allows you to make free internet calls to any other Skypers in the world, no PC required.

In fact you don't even need a PC to get started with this phone, because it comes with Skype pre-loaded. Just take it out of the box, find a hotspot or wireless network, and chat away for as long as you like, without having nightmares about mobile bills.

The catch? Well, it's not available quite yet - I'll be first to let you know when it is. But you can register your interest on Skype's website, and gen up with the FAQ that covers the phone's features, security, wireless standards and associated devices.

Excuse me while I get all drooly over Sony's dinky new Mylo communicator, latest addition to my Christmas list. (Only 137 days to go...)

OK so it's not exactly a WiFi phone like the gadgets from Skype's partners Belkin, Edge-Core, NETGEAR and SMC. But it can be used to make Skype and SkypeOut calls on the move, and any device that encourages multimedia-loving handheld fiends to discover the joys of Skype is a device to love.

The Mylo's rechargeable battery promises three and a half hours' talk time, which should be plenty for wandering around a WiFi hotspot chatting to your mates. If you need any more walk-and-Skype time than that, I salute (and envy) your walking stamina.

The bad news is that this lush gadget, which retails in the US for $350, isn't available in the UK yet. Still, that's what internet shopping is for.

p.s. Watch this space for news of a proper new WiFi phone, coming to a Skype blog near you tomorrow...

I've just been hob-nobbing down Liverpool Street way with a chap from US Robotics, who introduced me to the catchily-named USR9610. (Mercifully, it also goes by the name of 'US Robotics USB Internet Speakerphone').

It looks like something that landed near Roswell and may cause confusion for short-sighted smokers who need to offload some ash, but it's actually a Skype-certified phone. Plug the £45 gadget into your computer's USB port, and you can make Skype calls to you heart's content.

The UFO speakerphone, as I shall now be calling it, is a brilliant idea for those of us who hate being tethered to a headset - or for the more sociable among you, who might want to chat en masse to some lucky recipient. The unit is powered through your USB with no need for a clunky AC adaptor, so it's eminently portable.

Just don't let anyone stub out their ciggie in it.

With just 146 days, four hours, 37 minutes and 16 seconds to go until Christmas, allow me to relieve all your gift-buying headaches in a single swoop: click here and shove a few Verballs in your basket.

(The catch: Verballs don't go on sale until 1 September. I'll remind you again on the day. Promise.)

These very smashing desktop gizmos, priced £29.95, plug into your computer's USB and double as a mic and speakers when you're making a Skype call. Yes, they're voip phones with faces. When someone's trying to call you, their horns light up and they wave to get your attention - and their mouths move in time with the voice of the other person.

Tip: prepare an explanation for when Granny walks in and finds you whispering naughty nothings to a jiggling toy on your desk.

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Today's papers are full of mobile phone companies basking in their massive second-quarter profits. Hate to rain on your parade, chaps, but it might not be long before people get used to making free Skype calls on their mobiles.

Skype launches four WiFi VoIP handsets today, seven months after unveiling the first handset at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (One of the buildings hosting CES was also playing host to an "adult industry expo". You'd nip out to the loo and find a seven-foot transvestite at the hand-dryer. Vegas is that kind of place.)

That handset was Netgear's WiFi Phone for Skype, pictured above and coming imminently to the Skype Shop. Enter your email address here, and Skype will let you know when the Netgear handsets are in the building.

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Disclaimer: I'm not with it today. My brains are the temperature and consistency of freshly-nuked McDonald's hot apple pie innards. Have you been outdoors? (I assume you're in the UK, as opposed to Lapland.) I'd advise against it. Stay in, chow Chunky Monkey, play with Skype.

Heat-induced daftness notwithstanding, I still know a good gadget when I see one. The bookie is no longer taking bets on Gadget of the Month. Step forward, SanDisk U3 Cruzer.

From the name you'd think it was a hybrid car that plays MP3s (perhaps that's just me), but the Cruzer is in fact a smart USB drive, with Skype pre-loaded. Carry it around with you, and you can use Skype on any computer you like, as long as it has a USB port, mic and speakers.

How cool is that? (...as they say.) The Cruzer solves your Skypelessness when you're in a net cafe or working in an office where you're not allowed to download Skype. It'd also make a great pressie for software-averse parents whom you'd like to chat with using Skype.

The science bit: SanDisk Cruzer Micros range from 512MB (best price found by Pricerunner: £13) to 4GB (best price £94), while SanDisk Cruzer Titaniums come in two flavours: 1GB (£33) and 2GB (£55).

We've seen the future, and it's WiFi VoIP handset shaped.

According to analysts at Infonetics Research, single-mode VoIP handsets such as the Netgear Skype WiFi phone, along with the next generation of dual-mode mobile/VoIP handsets, are the future of chatter.

The global WiFi phone market is expanding at such a rate - at least doubling each year - that Infonetics predict it'll be worth $3.7 billion by 2009. To put it into perspective, that's about what the worldwide anti-virus market is worth right now.

(Trivia corner: it also compares roughly with the money spent on campaigning in the 2004 US elections. I'm saying nothing.)

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Today's "buy our products" email from cut-price gizmo-peddlar Savastore is decorated with this natty ad for Skype handsets. Trouble is, when you click the link, here's what you get:

... which is not much use, except to a recovering retail-addict.

So while Savastore sorts itself out, I've been looking for more rich and strange ways in which advertisers are selling VoIP to an occasionally confused public.

On YouTube I found this iPhox TV ad, apparently starring a tribute act to Angelina Jolie. The chap who posted the clip seems impressed ("I received this hilarious clip from a friend. Girl is stunning hot!") but I haven't quite worked out what it's saying about VoIP. Got any thoughts?

Right, that's it. I'm moving to the far east. Not only do you get Kitano Takeshi, sake in the supermarket and city-wide WiFi, but you also get to watch TV on Skype.

This innovation comes courtesy of Japanese company Novac, whose TV for Skype Anywhere (I think that's what it says) USB stick turns your home TV signal into a digital feed that you can watch via Skype from anywhere in the world. And all for for ¥9,800 - under fifty quid.

"The USB plugs into your home PC, and at the other end there's a socket for your TV aerial," says James Peck, from Skype's hardware team. "Then when you're on the road you call your home PC, which is reading from the aerial and converting the TV signal to a Skype digital call." Who needs boring old human beings when you can chat with your telly instead?

You can even change channels using your Skype messaging window. "So if I just type '#4#', the channel will go to Four and I can watch Big Brother." Ahh, modern life is bliss.

Of course, as with Taipei's WiFi Skype mobiles, what I really want to know is when TV-on-Skype will be available in the UK. But no-one's telling.

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