When Sky HD started nearly three years ago, there were only eight hi-def channels to choose from (including BBC HD). By February 2008 that number had increased to 31.

But in that time the capacity of the internal hard disk drive that the Sky+HD box uses as a recording medium has not been increased proportionately. Odd, given that the price of high-capacity drives has plummeted.

The Sky+HD has a 300GB drive (320GB in the latest models), which was admittedly enormous by 2006 standards. This has been 'partitioned', so that a fixed 140GB of this

Those thinking that Nintendo would be bringing a game-changing Gameboy phone to E3 will be sadly disappointed as the Nintendo US CEO ruled out such a development.

"Telephony is not in our wheelhouse," Reggie Fils-Aime said. "It's not something I anticipate us getting into."

Previous statements from Nintendo execs have hinted that the company was thinking of making a phone, but only if it could avoid making customers pay a monthly subscription.

Kindle to DSi

It seems that plan has evolved into a

Aldi is set to stock Medion's latest all-powerful PC, packing in a whopping one terabyte hard drive for only a penny under £600 this month.

The PC ships with a three-year warranty and, as well as packing in some serious power and hard drive capacity under the hood, also looks pretty smart with it.

"Music lovers can take advantage of its 1000 GB S-ATA hard drive which offers space for over 200,000 tracks," reads Aldi's press release, "and if you fancy getting snap happy there is plenty of space for all your

The main difference between the ABSplus and its competitors is that it offers a full system restore from the drive, giving you complete disaster recovery if needed. This is aimed at corporate users, but it's still immensely useful for home users in the event of a total PC crash.

For those looking for a simple back-up drive, one downside of the BounceBack is that the software has to be installed onto all PCs. This makes the experience a little more long-winded than it needs to be, but once the system is set up, backing up is fast: the ABSplus 160GB is

The Interead Cool-er is the latest product to launch in the relatively new ebook reader market.

There a few gadgets that divide opinion in the TechRadar office more ebooks, and none more so than this pink British one.

Launching this month, the Interead's MD claims the Cool-er device ushers in the 'iPod moment' for electronic reading.So will it? Or is all that little more than marketing hyperbole and PR noise?

While there are already a few electronic readers on the market in the UK – most notably the £224 Sony Reader PRS 505 and the £250

Currently, Wolfram Alpha's domain expertise is limited to some 30 fields, but it covers the most popular ones such as mathematics, weather, health, finance and a smattering of sports statistics.

The key thing is not to expect any Google-style results from your questions. For instance, while Wolfram Alpha can compare books, entering 'Salman Rushdie' will only get you the author's birth details and place of birth.

Despite its diverse field coverage, the data is mostly centralised to the US. The linguistic field also needs some work: 'English to

Eastman Kodak has been awarded a $1.7 million (£1m) grant from the US Department of Energy to further develop of OLED lighting manufacture, which could result in a huge reduction in the cost of producing the next-gen light source.

The grant, which is designed to help develop the technology and processes to make OLED manufacture more efficient, will help make production possible to a greater number of companies on a wider scale, bringing the cost of an OLED light source down by up to 75 per cent.

Kodak will be making an OLED that meets stringent

The Pure Evoke Flow has a classic retro design that's reminiscent of portable transistor radios of the '60s and '70s. But despite its carrying handle, it's designed to be plugged into the mains, with an internal battery pack only available as an optional extra (priced at £30).

This was our only niggle, since in all other respects the unit does everything you might expect of a combined FM, DAB and Wi-Fi radio. In seconds we were listening to stations from the four corners of the globe, plus FM and DAB UK stations.

We used Windows Media Player 11 to

Before we go any further, we'd like to make something perfectly clear. We really like the idea behind CodeWeavers CrossOver Mac Professional, which is the ability to run Windows applications on a Mac without having to install Windows itself.

Instead of using a Boot Camp partition or a virtual machine in Fusion or Parallels Desktop, CrossOver utilises the WINE compatibility layer so you can install Windows apps to your Mac's hard drive and run them within OS X as if they were native Mac apps.

Compatibility issues

It's a great

As a continuation of our guide to upgrading your Sky+ HD hard-drive we now focus on the freely downloadable program +Extract. This, as its name suggests, will 'extract' free-to-air recordings (for example, BBC and recent Channel 4/ITV) to a specified directory on your PC. Great, then, if you want to transfer them to DVD with minimal loss of quality.

The latest version of +Extract supports drives of up to 1TB, and so you'll be able to extract such recordings from upgraded (as well as original) drives. This is far better than making copies on an external