Sometimes you just want to shut the world out and tackle the next level of your fave game, don’t you? The Ovei isolation pod, launched this week in the UK, will let you do just that. For the sum of US$100,000. And before you fall about laughing, that cash will get you a unique capsule, designed by Lee McCormack and made by Mclaren Applied Technologies (the Formula 1 guys, yes). It’s custom-built exactly how you want: media centre, gaming rig, interior and exterior…the sort of bespoke stuff you’d expect for 100 grand. The rest of us will have to settle for the traditional laptop-under the duvet, earphones jammed-in isolation when the house is too noisy. [PocketLint via Born Rich]
Sure, most of us would love to stream the world’s digital content through our televisions, but it can get pricey real quick when media centres get involved. “The PoD” by Verismo Networks is a US$99 box that supports basically any format of video that you can throw at it (from internet Flash clips like YouTube to Windows DRM content like Amazon Unbox downloads).
