There's only so much room for a touchscreen on your wrist and, unless you're dressed like Dick Tracy, talking into your watch will make you look like you've lost the plot. A newly-uncovered Samsung patent looks to motion-tracking gestures as potential supplementary smartwatch controls to ease the burden on the smaller devices.
While the world's fastest production car, the Hennessey Venom GT, tops out at just over 270 miles per hour, the Bloodhound SSC is designed to go over 1,000 mph. And that creates countless engineering problems, particularly when it comes to stopping what is essentially a rocket engine on wheels.
Ever wanted to go to China? Ever fancied visiting Beijing? Well, here's a thing. You can go and see the glorious People's Republic of China and show them how consumerism works by splashing your cash on this cheap return flight to Beijing for £227. Or, send your money to Tokyo instead, with this Pentax X5 bridge camera.
O2's about to launch a collection of new PAYG SIM deals, with its "Big Bundle" tariffs starting at £10 a month and offering users a contract-like allowance of 100 minutes, 1,000 texts and 500MB of 3G data. Up that to £15 a month and PAYG users get 200 minutes and 1GB of data that allows 4G connectivity. Or there's a £20 option and bolt-ons to make it all more complex. [O2]
The Malaysian government has today publicly published the final ping transmissions between Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and an Inmarsat satellite that it was communicating with before it disappeared—so now anyone can investigate what happened to the aircraft.
With LG G3 leaks coming in from every angle over the past few days it's almost fitting that the most comprehensive leak of all, just ahead of today's big official reveal, should come prematurely from one of LG's own teams.
Google is reportedly hoping to add home security to Nest's portfolio. According to The Information, it's been considering a purchase of Dropcam—the worldwide leader in cloud-powered remote monitoring systems.
No, this enormous diesel powered beast is not a discarded movie prop from James Cameron's Aliens. He is Otto, one of the two huge transporters of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope field, at the high site of Chajnantor Plateau, Atacama Desert, Chile.
A new set of visualisation of x-ray data allow scientists—and the public—to undress ancient Egyptian mummies, peel back their skins and see (virtually) inside. The results looks as terrifying as you might expect.
