Can a DVD addict find happiness through a mail-order rental business? I don’t know what it is about the many DVD rent-by-mail operations popping up around Australia that initially put me off. Is it the fact that DVDs wouldn’t fit in my mailbox anyway, and walking past the video rental store to pick up undeliverable …

Giant flat-panel displays are beautiful pieces of technology, but for all that money they should do more than just sit there, shouldn’t they? For some time now, Hitachi has had models that swivel a bit, but in most installations we’ve seen, the display is mounted on the wall. Now that’s understandable — if you’ve got a display that saves on …