China, which banned dedicated video games machines in the year 2000 to protect the brains and minds of its little children, might be about to relent and lets its population play consoles again. The news led shares in Sony and Nintendo to explode upwards like a familiar old video game barrel. Read More >>
Featured comment by cinimod:
"5 years living in china and never realised that consoles were banned there. It's kind of hard to tell when chipped consoles are on sale everywhere and..." More »
Intel's trying to crack the enormous budget smartphone market with its latest model, powered by a new affordable mobile Atom platform and launching in Africa this week. The only problem is, it's calling the thing Yolo. Read More >>
Featured comment by peter.muigai:
"I am from Kenya,judging from the previous success of similar priced entry level smart phones....... there is going to be a long queue at the shops for..." More »
Did you get in at the ground floor? Punt your money and take the risk of backing the Pebble smartwatch early on? Good news, the first batch of the beauties are actually shipping today. With a bit of luck you'll have yours within a week or two. You can even check your shipping here. Anyone expecting one? [Pebble] Read More >>
Featured comment by Grr Argh:
"I somehow completely missed every mention of this watch until last week when I checked out the kickstarter page and realised someone was making exactl..." More »
Looks like Asus is turning up the heat on Microsoft's Surface Pro with its own Windows 8 tablet-come-laptop thing. The Asus VivoTab packs a 10.1-inch HD screen, a 1.8GHz dual-core ship backed by two-whole-gigs of RAM, and a 64GB SSD. Yours for £400; just £90 extra for the keyboard, ugh. [TechRadar] Read More >>
I've said it many times. I'd love to be able to charge my phone from my tablet, because, let's face it, your phone is way more important than a tablet, plus your slate has an enormous battery compared to said phone. Well, Sony's finally gone and done it. You'll be able to charge your shiny new Xperia Z from your svelte Xperia Tablet Z. Awesome. Read More >>
Rumours are emerging which suggest Nokia is planning to launch a "true PureView Windows Phone" — codenamed EOS — some time later this year. Read More >>
A Samsung roadmap for the first half of 2013 has been spotted, showing us at least five new models from its forthcoming Android range. Some we know, some we don't. Read More >>
Featured comment by ian1175:
"I am getting pretty fed up with the iphone at the minute and am waiting to see what samsung have to offer with the galaxy s4.
But i gotta say i wish ..." More »
Microsoft's finally announced release dates and prices for the Surface Pro with full-blown Windows 8 for the US and Canada. Sadly, the UK's fat out of luck for the time being, and the prices? Well, let's just say it's not going to come cheap. But how much is too much, for an all-singing, all-dancing Microsoft-made tablet-come-laptop? Read More >>
If you follow any number of Silicon Valley insiders on Twitter, you might have seen them blathering on about a new email app called Mailbox for iPhone. Mailbox is an interesting take on the inbox. It forces new user behaviour, which might not necessarily be a bad thing but having used it over the last few days I can ensure you that change is not easy. Read More >>
Featured comment by elevenses:
"It's not hard to decide which emails to delete, and which to keep for a while.
It appears this system is for retards. Windows users would be the pr..." More »
What the little GoPro Hero 3 lacks in size, it makes up for in big pictures. But what makes that rugged camera work? The teardown scientists over at iFixit took a look under the hood of GoPro's latest. Read More >>
Featured comment by dirtymagic86:
"I used to have an original Go-Pro but tried the Hero 3 the other day. The difference in image quality is mind blowing.." More »
Mozilla has just announced a pair of Developer Preview Phones that will come sporting its new, in-development Firefox OS. They've got basic specs, since they're just for developers and looks....though one of them is very, very orange. Read More >>
Featured comment by SteamingPenguin:
"Yeah, I sorta accidentally gave one away the other day, screen was off and I clicked the mouse a load of times..." More »
HTC's Sense skin for Android has long been a bloated skeuomorphic mess, with aluminium ring pulls, flip clocks and fancy weather animations. If these leaked screenshot are accurate, though, that all looks set to change — for the better. Read More >>
Rumours suggest that Samsung's hard-to-buy Nexus 10 tablet is about to receive a small hardware update, with the Korean maker of glossy rectangular items said to be working on a new quad-core version of its Nexus 10. Read More >>
Skull-based accessories are usually only popular with a certain demographic who've embraced the morbid side of life. But damned if this Last Laugh watch from Mr. Jones hasn't crossed the border into mainstream territories with a clever mechanism that shows the hour and minutes on the skull's teeth. Read More >>
The advent of digital photography has transformed how we view the world around us. The breadth and scope of our image capture devices has exploded. But not even the most ingenious action cam can compare to the sheer audacity of these awesome rigs collected by our friends at Ooobject. Read More >>
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