Are YOU dreaming of a white Christmas? Just like the ones you used to know? Where treetops moisten and children, erm, doisten. Or something. You know how it goes... Read More >>

Official description: "The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation." Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK! Read More >>

If you prefer your warfare with a little more leg cramp, why not grab yourself the new Mag II from All Interactive Entertainment? You'll still be able to make the baddies pay dearly -- but this time standing up like a real trooper. Read More >>

Would you wear this to play games? Would you wear this if it cost, say, £149 and came with a free copy of Half-Life 3 in the box? Oh yes, excited now, eh? It could happen too, in some distant future, as this bonkers headset is one of PC publisher Valve's long-rumoured pieces of hardware. Read More >>

If there's any reason to have a decent PC that can run Grand Theft Auto IV, it's gotta be this. Full-on Back to the Future madness. This fantastic mod steps you into the shoes of Marty McFly, complete with a flux capacitor-toting DeLorean that really does time travel at 88mph, leaving a delicious trail of fire in its wake, that yes, even sets cop cars on fire. Ace. Read More >>

By making Microsoft Surface, the potential tablet and PC wunderkind, Microsoft was sort of, kind of acknowledging that PC Makers, Microsoft's hardware partners, suck at what they do. Which is sort of, kind of true. In order for Windows 8 to be great, Microsoft needed to make sure the hardware was just as great as the software, company partners be damned. Read More >>

I've seen amazing demos of DirectX 11, but this is mind blowing. I have a hard time believing that this video is all rendered in real time with DirectX 11 hardware, but that's exactly what it is. Read More >>

When Intel outed the Ultrabook concept last year, it hoped the slim laptops would be the saviour of the PC market, clawing back sales it had lost to Apple's svelte offerings. The latest figures show, however, that all is not well in the land of PC. Read More >>

Apple's quietly changed the wording on its site regarding OSX's virus protection a tad. Looks like Apple's hand was forced by the embarrassing Flashback botnet attack last month and its tardy response. Macs aren't quite as invulnerable as Apple used to boast. Read More >>

Science and medicine are supposedly based on rigor—a rigor where theories are only correct if you can replicate results. It turns out, though, that the software used to analyse medical images of your brain gives wildly different answers if it's run on Mac or PC. Read More >>

Carbon fiber has, without doubt, got to be one of the most exotic materials you can choose to build things out of: race cars, road bikes and, umm, laptops? It seems that the Dell XPS 13 has started a trend because now Gigabyte is hot on its heels with an all-carbon fiber notebook which is, as you'd expect, insanely light. Read More >>

Let’s face it – our mobile phones are our very lifeblood these days. If we could get food and drink from them, we probably would and then we could all disappear off to live alone in the woods, untroubled by other humans. Read More >>

As well as making the lives of smartphone users easier by letting us upload all our photos to its server automatically, Dropbox is now rolling out the same feature to its desktop software, so PC and Mac photographers can sync every single photo they take. Read More >>

Ultra-fast, Apple-only Thunderbolt technology is about to get a little less exclusive. According to CNet reports, LaCie plans to unveil PC compatibility for the 10gb/s Thunderbolt during the upcoming NAB 2012 trade show. Read More >>

Tablets are massively popular, but still have a long way to go before they can replace PCs. Yasir Hossain at The Tech Block looks at what it would take to make that happen. Read More >>