Plummeting PC prices have not been matched by a drop in the cost of software. Now UK supermarket Tesco is planning to change that by launching Ability Office, a dirt cheap software package that does a similar job to Microsoft Office. Ability鈥檚 software tools such as Write are compatible with its rival鈥檚 鈥� and all for 拢20 rather than 拢300.
It looks like a dimpled basketball on a stick, but in fact the 鈥減ulsating sphere鈥� is a speaker which reputedly produces a more natural sound than conventional box shape. Developed by JVC of Yokohama, Japan, the speaker has 12 pentagon-shaped plastic panels and with the exception of the base, each panel acts as a diaphragm, pulsating in unison to emit sound in all directions. The speaker will be launched next year.
