Welcome again to Future Week on Pocket-lint. As much fun as it is looking at all sorts of interesting gadgets and services that could be ready in 5 years' time, now is the moment to spare a few thoughts for those that will have dropped off the map....

Play.com is offering a variety of goods that retail for under £5 which include categories such as DVDs, music, books, technology, toys, mobile and clothing.

In the tech category you'll get the usual fare of dongles, headsets and mice, whilst...

Woodstock is celebrating its 40th anniversary this August and Play.com is jumping on the bandwagon by offering deals on some albums of artists that performed.

Priced from just under a fiver up to around £10, Artists include Jimi Hendrix,...

Pioneer has unveiled a new slim, portable DVD and CD writer that offers a sleek, high-gloss black casing and the ability to write at speeds of up to 8x on DVD-R/+R, 6x on Dual/Double Layer DVDs and 24x to CD.

The DVR-XD08 connects to the...

Digital distribution startup Tunecore has partnered with Amazon to offer physical publishing options to DIY musicians that will cost considerably less than traditional CD manufacturing.

It's claimed that the service will be launched in the...

Music producer Danger Mouse shot to fame in 2004 with "The Grey Album" - a mashup of the Beatles' "The White Album" and Jay-Z's "The Black Album".

EMI, who owns the copyright for the Beatles' tracks, weren't too pleased as he hadn't asked...

Pure has announced what it says is the world's first "Works with iPhone" DAB micro system, the Sirocco 150, described as a fully featured DAB/FM digital sound system with CD, SD, USB and iPod dock.

The Sirocco 150 comes with a matching...

Naim Audio has announced the launch of the new "NaimUniti" an all-in-one audio player with an integrated amplifier, CD player, DAB/FM tuner, internet radio player, iPod and MP3 dock, digital to analogue converter, USB and network-stored music file player...

Yamaha has announced the worldwide launch of four iPod and iPhone-compatible products. Two are traditional docks, and two are clock-radios.

Dealing with the clock radios first, the TSX-120 contains a DAB and FM radio, along with an iPod dock....

American audio manufacturer Harman Kardon has just dropped us word of a new audio system that it'll be bringing out this summer.

The MS 100 packs a CD player, an FM radio, an iPod dock, and a set of "high-end" stereo speakers.

GEAR4 has announced the first of a new "diversified product range" for the company, the CDM-100, a CD micro system with dock for iPod as well as an FM/AM radio.

With a top-loading CD player, a universal dock for iPod that charges the MP3...

General Electric has revealed a "breakthrough in digital storage technology" that could mean 500GB discs will be available soon.

That kind of capacity - said to be the equivalent of 100 DVDs - makes the supposedly next-gen Blu-ray disc's...

The original Beatles catalogue, digitally re-mastered for the first time, is to get a worldwide CD release on 09/09/09 - the same date as the The Beatles: Rock Band goes on sale.

However, there's still no news on the catalogue being made...

Asus has announced the launch of yet another Eee variant, the 1004DN, this one the first ever Eee with a built-in super multi optical disc drive.

The 10-inch model may be what a lot of consumers are hoping for as it offers netbook dimensions...

Back in January the tech deal slot brought you news that Musicmagpie were not only going to give you cash for old CDs but DVDs too.

Now it seems they are branching out again with the recent introduction of cash for old console games.