Last night around 50 people gathered in a science park to watch a man switch on a lamp. Fortunately this was very much a case of the process being more important than the outcome. This wasn’t a group of yokels getting their first exposure to electricity, but rather Bristol’s latest “Raspberry Jam” event, a showcase [...]
Windows 8 is coming and it’s bringing with it touchscreen computing. Of course, touchscreen computers aren’t anything particularly new – I believe HP has had one for ages. The difference is that the actual system is going to be built for it – Windows 8 is going to be designed for touch screens. And Lenovo [...]
Today only: Just $159.99 for a 256GB Crucial SSD hard drive. That’s 47% off the drive’s initial retail price of $299.99. I’ve looked everyone online, and at that size, these drives (Crucial) rarely go for under $199, so if you’re looking for a SSD drive to boost the performance of your system, now might be [...]
Yep, robots are invading the oceans. So what if turtles are dying out? We’ll replace them with these robotic babies. Ok, not really. This is a turtle-inspired cargo vessel, from what I can tell. It travels at about 7 knots and stores its goods in its little shell. There’s also space in there for its [...]
Today only, Amazon is offering some huge deals on a large variety of PC components and peripherals. If you’re looking for some gear to improve the performance of your PC or to build a new computer from the ground up, now might be the perfect time to do it! Today only, enjoy special savings on [...]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon offers some huge rebates on various Corsair desktop and laptop memory kits. They also have some great deals on other Corsair-branded components. This offer is valid through October 7, 2012, or while supplies last. [Save up to 70% on Select Desktop and Laptop Memory Kits]
Charlie Corry and his team wanted features on the iPhone that simply weren’t there. Instead of whining to Apple about it, they decided to build these features themselves, in what they’re calling the iExpander. They have built a prototype for the iPhone 4 and 4S as well as one for the iPhone 5. Here’s a [...]
If you believe region-coding is just so early 21st century, you’ll be disappointed to hear Nintendo has announced the Wii U console will indeed discriminate on grounds of geography. The company has officially confirmed a report from a Japanese gaming magazine that, as most of its previous non-portable consoles, the system will be region-locked. In [...]
Check out MakerBot’s 4th generation 3D printer, called the Replicator 2. It’s not quite a commercial-ready 3D printer that’s being marketed to the average geek, but it still looks pretty awesome. The machine is actually aimed towards engineers and industrial designers who want a smaller, and so-called more ‘affordable’ way of printing professional quality 3D models. [...]
With court rulings as hard to predict as a substitute NFL referee’s penalty calls, it can be hard to keep track of who’s suing who in the tech world and how everyone’s getting on. Here’s a quick update on recent developments. Samsung has failed to overturn a temporary sales ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. [...]
Have you sometimes found that when you’re facing a really tough problem, an old kindergarten trick can sometimes work quite perfectly? Well apparently that can extend to quantum computers as well. At the University of Toronto, researchers have combined superconducting materials and semiconducting materials using good, wholesome two-sided Scotch tape. Quantum computing is a highly [...]
American consumers have never been so happy with their computers according to the latest in a series of annual surveys. The trend appears to be the result of including tablets alongside traditional desktop and portable computers. The figures come from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, an organization that runs regular surveys of how happy people [...]