We were already pretty enamoured by 3 and PC World’s latest discount offering, giving users who sign up for the network’s mobile broadband £350 off a lappie.

Now though, it’s got even better, with the pair confirming that the MacBook Air is included in the deal. The discount is £250, so 100 nicker less than it could be, but it does bring Apple’s size zero newbie down to £1,050.

Although it makes the Air the deal’s flasgship gadget, although we still reckon the Vaio AR51J at £499 is a great deal and definitely not to be sniffed at. After all, it packs in a Blu-Ray drive and looks the business.

We’re hoping that PC World adds more lappies in the future. How about the imminent MacBook Pros guys?

Web savvy (read hopelessly addicted) punters, including our good selves, have got accounts on every IM service and VoIP network they can get their techie hands on these days.

Which is why we’re pretty bowled over by Fring, which unites all your accounts on your mobile, whether they’re trusty Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger or their very own VoIP brew.

It’s a free app that you can snag online, from the link down below, uniting all your contacts in one place and letting you see who’s online, what account they’re using and how strong the signal is where they are.

It all means you can make cheap calls using your cell, as long as your data charges aren’t exorbitant or you’re using WiFi.

Best of all though, you can fire over documents and images using P2P transfer rather than sluggish MMS. So it’s handy for high-powered business types too.

There’s support for some 450 blowers. You can check if yours is supported over on the official site, either by typing in the name or looking for an image of the model you’re packing.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Let’s break it down TV junkie. Sony’s new ¥38,000 (about $355) XDV-D500 features a 3-inch, 432 x 240 pixel resolution display with 160-degree viewing angle, 500:1 contrast, and a battery capable of about 8-hours of TV reception. It can even record up to 10 hours of scheduled programming to 2GB of internal memory. The itty bittier XDV-G200 brings a 2-inch LCD to the show, AM/FM radio too, then ditches the EPG and recording function. This is Japan mind you, so these sets receive digital 1Seg TV — in other words you can kiss your import fantasies goodbye.

[Via Impress]

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Filed under: Wireless, Networking

If you’ve been at it long, you’re probably tired of forking over $100 or so every year for the latest and greatest in wireless networking. The TEW-637AP, thankfully, takes a different approach. Instead of chucking your current router, the 300Mbps Wireless “Easy-N-Upgrader” just jacks into an extra Ethernet port on your existing router, and relies on that old box to do the “routing” part. The TRENDnet unit deals with blasting the 802.11n with MIMO, for theoretical speeds up to 300Mbps. Seems a bit silly, but the $64 pricetag certainly bests your average 802.11n router, so it might work out for you if you’ve got a good thing going with your existing setup, and just need a little extra push in the bandwidth department.

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Filed under: Household

Yeah, it’s no Spice Weasel, but we’re pretty sure this product concept would feel right at home in an episode of Futurama. That’s right kids, it’s the spice gun — a handy device which would allow you to gun down your food in cold-blooded flavor. To use this killer, you’d lock and load the barrel with a selection of your deadliest spices, then simply spin it — Dirty Harry style — to switch up ammo. We could go on all day with clever turns of phrase describing how much “kick” this thing has, suggestions that you load it up with radish-piercing bullets, and cautionary messages like, “Never point the spice gun at a steak unless you intend to season it,” but we’ll spare you the pain. Oh, whoops.

[Via Uber-Review]

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