Come As You Are – The Nirvana Smartphone

In a world of increasingly sophisticated and even pointless developments in mobile phone technology (yes I’m looking at you translucent phone) it takes more and more for mobile phone ideas to stand out. The Nirvana phone concept from Citrix, whilst not exactly new, does manage to do this by taking some of the more interesting [...]

Nanopoint announce USB 3.0 PCI-E card

Got lots of high definition video stored on your computer? Current USB speeds aren’t ideal for transferring large files, but they’re getting a serious upgrade. USB 3.0 offers theoretical transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps – a ten-fold increase over USB 2.0’s 480Mbps. It’s backwards compatible with current USB products, and won’t cost a huge amount more. [...]

Movea annouce new Gyration Air Mouse Elite

The Gyration Air Mouse Elite has recently hit the market, and is intended to be a step up from last years Air Mouse.

Seemingly most useful for those in the boardroom giving presentations or teachers in the classroom it is, essentially, a computer mouse that you can walk around with. Greg Smith, Vice President at [...]

Logitech Lapdesk brings cinema to your lap

The chances are the reason you bought your laptop in the first place was for it’s portability, it’s what they were invented for after all. Laptops originally started life as a tool for busy executives, those with a pressing need for a mobile office as they shuttle from meeting to meeting talking facts and [...]

Pick-your-own (BlackBerry) PowerPoint

If your PowerPoints are often stifled by the inevitably-stressful hit-and-miss set-up, BlackBerry Presenter promises to soothe your woes by beaming slides straight from your smartphone. This unique presentation partner is pitched at those who find travelling with a laptop too cumbersome or the urge to present too strong to hang around for a computer to [...]

HD video calling comes to Skype

Skype is my Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client of choice. Relatively stable with cross platform support, solid audio calling options and a less garish take on Instant Messaging (IM) than MSN Messenger, I have used Skype almost daily for 3 years.
However one area that I have been looking for improvement in is Video calling. [...]

PS3 pad sliced in two by SplitFish, evolution?

For most, the well established Sony control pad is perfect just the way it is. The latest incarnation, the DualShock 3 for PS3, not only features analogue controls but also motion sensing, USB charging and vibration technology. So then, how do you improve on perfection?
Third party control pad developers Splitfish think they’ve found the answer [...]

PQI H560 HDD: Putting the hard in hard drive

It was amusing to learn that there is a bunch of volatile folk out there in the big wide world whose job it is to test the ruggedness of our consumer technology. They drop, throw, bash and molest the products for us so that we may rest assured that, when our clumsy mittens fumble with [...]

Hands on with Apple’s new quad-core iMac

iMac’s used to be the obvious choice for people who prefer style over substance. This is no longer the case, over the last 10 years Apple have steadily improved their all-in-one computer and the latest incarnation is the fastest all-in-one solution on the market to date.
The two ultra-high-end 27-inch iMacs are the first to uses [...]

ATI’s 5970 fastest pixel-pusher goes up to (DirectX) 11

In the bleeding edge world of technology, graphics cards are probably the bloodiest of them all. The new world’s fastest pixel-pusher is ATI’s 5970, essentially two of its (already pretty impressive) 5870 GPUs squashed into a single card for the considerable sum of £580.
Well, I say “squashed”, but by all accounts this card is a [...]

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