There are few guys out there that haven’t fooled around with a Scalextric set at one time or another. Standing there, trigger in hand, entertaining notions of F1 victory while spending most of the time shooting their cars off the track and into the fire.
Well, Scalextric has turned 50 and is celebrating the fact with a special Anniversary Set.
“One of the first two cars ever made by Scalextric was a Ferrari 375 made in tinplate. We have lovingly reproduced this iconic car of the Fifties again with a tinplate body but to today's high standards of detail. We have then matched the 375 with a modern day Ferrari to represent 50 years of Scalextric. These fine pieces show how Scalextric can now produce classic and modern cars whether they are raced on track or displayed in a cabinet.”
The set also comes with a cool book, Scalextric: A Race Through Time - 144 colour pages of slot car history and fun. It’s due out this summer and only 7,000 will be produced at a cost of £75 each. Jump now for a shot of the cars.-Martin Lynch
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Apple posted some very healthy results recently, up until the end of June, but even a couple of days can make a difference. When the iPhone went on sale on June 29, it managed to shift 270,000 units in its first 30 hours, before the financial quarter ended.
This is lower than some optimistic first weekend analyst estimates but it’s hard to deny that 270,000 sales of a £300 phone is still impressive.
Apple went on to say that it plans to top 1 million sales by the end of the next financial quarter in September – that’s 730,000 between July 1 and September 30 at a rate of 8,000 a day. To put it in context, the iPod took 21 months to sell its first million units.
However, to hit its ambitious 10 million sales target by the end of 2008 will mean ramping that up to around 27,000 units a day. Even with a European launch at the end of this year it’s going to be tight.-Martin Lynch
[Macworld]
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Anyone that has trouble choosing between Apple’s almost invisible selection of ipod/nano colours should stop reading now. Toshiba has obviously just robbed a B&Q store to stock up on what's needed for the new Gigabeat U103 MP3 player which comes in – wait for it – 24 different colours.
The Japanese are getting these first but hopefully they’ll wing it this way in a few months. The specs are virtually the same as the U102, but Toshiba is hoping these things will take off like wildfire, tempting obsessives to collect all of them like wee, musical Tamagotchis. Available in 1GB and 2GB flavours, the other specs include:
* 1.1" OLED display (96x96 resolution, 65K colors)
* MP3, WMA, and WAV
* FM tuner/Recorder
* Built-in FM transmitter/receiver
* Enhanced DAC
* Battery life: 20 hours
* Colours: All!
* Dimensions: 76.7mm x 36.2mm × 11.4mm
Prices will start at around £55.-Martin Lynch
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