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Photographer's Choice 3 – IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T60 (2009)
ThinkPad T60 delivers a sturdy design, a complete range of network connectivity, top-shelf performance, long battery life, and just enough ports for the typical business user. The first new iteration of the ThinkPad T series since Lenovo bought the ThinkPad… Read More ›
Photographers Choice 2 – Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (2009)
The Inspiron Mini 9 netbook is an ultra small and mobile companion weighing in at a mere 1.035 kg and only 1.07 inch thin that is sure to keep up with your on-the-go lifestyle. It is the ideal size to… Read More ›
Photographer's Choice 1 – Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch (2009)
The first in a series of four, on the four laptops of choice from a photographers point of view. Released in the fourth quarter of 2008, this computer’s display incorporates an all-glass front designed to minimize flex in the lid…. Read More ›
The Beatles: Rock Band Game (2009)
Apple Corps., MTV Games, and Harmonix have announced that The Beatles: Rock Band will be released simultaneously around the world on September 9th 2009 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii, with new Beatles themed Rock Band peripherals being… Read More ›
Casio PRX-2000T Watch
Casio Japan announced the PRX-2000T, the newest addition to it series of Protrek watches, which are geared towards sports and trekking enthusiasts. The new model is just 11.3mm thick and features a titanium with carbide coating band and bezel (weight:… Read More ›
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 (2009)
Atari Europe has today confirmed that the next instalment in the Ultimate Ninja franchise, following the adventures of young ninja Naruto, will be arriving across May on PlayStation 2. Set over two years after Naruto leaves the seclusion of the… Read More ›
USB Construction Site Novelty
Wiz, the Japanese toy maker behind great stuff like the Flying Ultraman and the consolation money pocket calculator, today unveiled their newest stroke of genius, a mini USB construction site. As most USB gadgets, it doesn’t serve any real purpose… Read More ›
iPhone App Solves Rubik's Cube In 20 Moves Or Better
Now you can use this century’s greatest gadget to do battle with last century’s most-beloved geek toy. A new iPhone app called CubeCheater helps you solve the classic Rubik’s Cube puzzle toy using a mix of sophisticated algorithms and simple… Read More ›
Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Ready For Windows Mobile (2009)
Firefox Mobile looks like it’ll finally be released for Windows Mobile next week, according to internal documents. According to minutes from internal Mozilla meetings, Firefox Mobile will be launching on Windows Mobile in the first week of February. The notes,… Read More ›
Face Double iPhone Application Celebrity Lookalikes
Just about everyone is curious about which celebrity they look like. The website MyHeritage will show you who your famous look-alike is, but if you’re not sitting at a computer then add the Face Double Application to your iPhone! It… Read More ›
Samsung Projector-Phone (2009)
The Samsung W7900, aka The Show, certainly lives up to its name. In fact, if it had just the gorgeous 3.2-inch OLED screen, the digital TV tuner or the five-megapixel camera, it would be a winner. But the Show combines… Read More ›
Prism 200 Lets You See Through Walls (2009)
The Prism 200 lets you see through walls. You can only see things that are moving, but it’s sensitive enough to pick up breathing, hearts beating, and people moving. Prism 200 is a handheld through-wall radar, which has been designed… Read More ›
DSTL1 Android Smartphone (2009)
The Android-based, 3-inch Sharp touchscreen, General Mobile DSTL1 is everything the T-Mobile isn’t. It has a stunning design and features combination that may convince regular consumers to choose the Android platform over iPhone. It’s similar to the iPhone design, with… Read More ›
T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 (2009)
After the BlackBerry Bold’s epically delayed launch on AT&T and the Storm’s epically borked launch everywhere, RIM needs 2009 to be better than 2008. The T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a good way to start. The BlackBerry OS 4.6 has… Read More ›
Datto's Box2Box Is Easy But Expensive Offsite Backup (2009)
Offsite backup is the way to go if you want your data to survive a fire, but it usually requires costly monthly subscription fees and bandwidth usage. Datto’s Box2Box does not. Datto’s previous boxes consisted of an on-site (in your… Read More ›
Photographers Choice 4 – Lenovo ThinkPad W700
The last in a series, featuring four laptops preferred by professional photographers, is the Lenovo ThinkPad W700. It is specifically designed for professional use in industries such as graphic design, photography and CAD. Lenovo Media Release RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC… Read More ›
AT&T Offers First 3G Femtocell (2009)
We heard a lot about femtocells last year. A femtocell is a device that allows your cellular phone to connect to the Internet for calls to provide better coverage indoors. So far there have been a few of these femtocells… Read More ›
Sony PRS-700 Touchscreen Reader
With the latest edition of Sony’s Reader Digital Book, announced today, readers can truly let their fingers do the walking. An interactive touch screen display allows for the most intuitive digital reading experience to date. The new model, PRS-700, will… Read More ›
Measurement Gloves For Construction
There’s never a ruler around when you need one, but these measurement gloves can conceivably clip to your jacket to always have on the job (you know, like mittens). Packing centimetre and angle measurements along with a few cute grids… Read More ›
Panasonic Adds Touchscreen Model, More HD Video To Cameras (2009)
Alongside the rugged TS1, Panasonic has announced a refresh to their P&S lineup, including one touchscreen camera, a few that shoot HD video and one that’s just a standout. The FX580 is pretty much the star of the show here,… Read More ›
Waterproof Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 Camera (2009)
Built by a company with some experience at making things that aren’t flimsy, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 is a waterproof, dustproof and shockproof point-and-shoot camera for the outdoorsy and/or clumsy type. Nearly every aspect of the TS1 was designed with… Read More ›
Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green Drive (2009)
Western Digital have announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive, the world’s highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD’s popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch platform is based… Read More ›
Mario And Luigi RPG3 (Exploring Bowser's Internal Organs)
Details on the third Mario & Luigi RPG are still a little vague, since its unveiling back in October. However a recent update to the game’s Japanese website has revealed a surprising twist. With the ability to take control of… Read More ›
Boom Blox Bash Party
Boom Blox Bash Party, the sequel to last year’s Boom Blox, has been announced by EA as part of the publisher’s collaboration with Steven Spielberg and is due out on Nintendo’s Wii during the spring of this year. The first… Read More ›
Prince Of Persia
Prince of Persia Epilogue, the first portion of DLC for Ubisoft’s 2008 reworking of Jordan Mechner’s iconic franchise, is due out on February 26th and is set to add new powers and attacks for the prince as well as a… Read More ›
SkiGym Simulator
The SkiGym simulator looks like it’s going for realism rather than the silly fun offered by the Wii, but some people probably want an accurate depiction of brief exhilaration before the inevitable faceplant. The SkiGym hooks up to a PC… Read More ›
Google Get Free Ideas
Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers. After all, you can’t pay engineers in “shout outs” on their blogs like they’re offering for users. Yes, the tanking economy is… Read More ›
New In 2009: Another New iPhone
Whether it’s the iPhone 3G Part II or the rumoured iPhone nano, it’s not hard to imagine Apple releasing another new iPhone this year, maintaining their trend of releasing an iPhone per year to stay competitive in the ever changing… Read More ›
New In 2009: Windows 7
Windows Vista was a huge disappointment in many people’s eyes, but Windows 7, expected sometime before the end of the year, promises to be much better. Whether it is the new features, or the less taxing system requirements, many people… Read More ›
New In 2009: Premium Netbooks
The first wave of netbooks with tiny screens were almost unuseable, before upgrades to 9, 10 and even 12-inch screens. Now it’s time for netbooks to get WiMax and HSDPA connections as a standard, hopefully staying half-way affordable. MSI has… Read More ›
New In 2009: Wii MotionPlus
Nintendo may have fulfilled the promise of the Wii, finally offering a motion controller as accurate and responsive as we’d all hoped the Wiimote to be originally. If Nintendo can coax developers to support Wii Motion Plus, we can expect… Read More ›
Garmin Nuvi 880 Voice-Controlled GPS Lightning
Garmin’s flagship Nuvis, the 880 responds to commands from your voice, triggered by a little remote control you attach to your steering wheel. The popular opinion is that it’s the best all-around GPS on the market, but there are too… Read More ›
New In 2009: Overview
Technology evolves at a frightening pace. So much so that before new technology comes out on the market, even newer technology has outdated it. There are some interesting things coming up in 2009. Just some examples: Premium Notebooks, Wii MotionPlus,… Read More ›
Ten Cent Tape Fools Border Security
So much for biometrics and immigration security. A South Korean woman managed to fool a million-dollar fingerprint reading machine in Japanese border controls using a simple piece of tape stuck to her fingers. It happened at Tokyo airport. The woman… Read More ›
Brother Develops HD Sewing Machine
If you’re still watching TV in standard definition, think about wha Brother have developed. They have just announced the world’s first sewing machine with a built-in camera to display your work on an “HD” screen. The QuattroT 6000D seems to… Read More ›
iPhone Games
Game technology seems to have gone full circle. Nintendo puts games into watches, the march of technology replaces watches with cellphones, developer sneaks classic Game & Watch apps onto the iPhone. Rejoice, but make it fast. The folks of Mobile… Read More ›
Weenie Wing Commander
While some prefer encapsulating their hot dogs in a black crust of carcinogens prior to ingestion, there are others who prefer a slow roasted wiener. Some even prefer involving a spaceship in some way. From the same brilliant creators of… Read More ›
Android On An Eee PC
Making good on Google’s continued pledge to not limit Android to just phones, two guys at VentureBeat got Android up an running on their Eee PC 1000H. There was apparently no reason given as to why. Apparently it was a… Read More ›
New In 2009: Cheap Blu-ray Players
It is possible that such players could be priced under $100, and LG have announced they will have expanded services such as Netflix, YouTube, CinemaNow, and perhaps even Amazon VOD, Hulu and Rhapsody. If LG start, it is only a… Read More ›
New In 2009: USB 3.0
Now that Intel’s brought together the world in a harmonious new USB standard, here’s a first look at the new connectors brought to us by MaximumPC. Ten times faster than the old USB spec, the new USB can transfer a… Read More ›
New In 2009: Wireless HDMI
A multitude of companies have various wireless HDMI technologies, but there’s no set standard (two warring factions need to settle the fight before we can have interoperable products). The technology is there, now it’s just a matter of logistics and… Read More ›
New In 2009: A Decent Sized OLED TV
The Sony XEL-1 OLED television was met with great enthusiasm when it was released in 2008, but there was a catch; its screen size was a only 11 inches. While we can’t expect 50-inch screens just yet, we do anticipate… Read More ›
New In 2009: 4G Networks
3G is alright but we’re looking forward to even faster 4G wireless networks soon. Intel-backed WiMax launched in a few locales by carriers Sprint and ClearWire. The wide-area network currently promises peaks of 10 megabits per second but on paper… Read More ›
New In 2009: Another New iPhone
Whether it’s the iPhone 3G Part II or the rumoured iPhone nano, it’s not hard to imagine Apple releasing another new iPhone this year, maintaining their trend of releasing an iPhone per year to stay competitive in the ever changing… Read More ›
New In 2009: Cheap Blu-ray Players
It is possible that such players could be priced under $100, and LG have announced they will have expanded services such as Netflix, YouTube, CinemaNow, and perhaps even Amazon VOD, Hulu and Rhapsody. If LG start, it is only a… Read More ›
New In 2009: Windows 7
Windows Vista was a huge disappointment in many people’s eyes, but Windows 7, expected sometime before the end of the year, promises to be much better. Whether it is the new features, or the less taxing system requirements, many people… Read More ›
New In 2009: Wii MotionPlus
Nintendo may have fulfilled the promise of the Wii, finally offering a motion controller as accurate and responsive as we’d all hoped the Wiimote to be originally. If Nintendo can coax developers to support Wii Motion Plus, we can expect… Read More ›
New In 2009: Premium Netbooks
The first wave of netbooks with tiny screens were almost unuseable, before upgrades to 9, 10 and even 12-inch screens. Now it’s time for netbooks to get WiMax and HSDPA connections as a standard, hopefully staying half-way affordable. MSI has… Read More ›
New In 2009: Overview
Technology evolves at a frightening pace. So much so that before new technology comes out on the market, even newer technology has outdated it. There are some interesting things coming up in 2009. Just some examples: Premium Notebooks, Wii MotionPlus,… Read More ›
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