The Kindle Fire's hitting US stores this month (UK launch expected sometimeafter), and a lot of folks are excited about what they think will be iPad first true challenger. Except that Apple execs say the $200 (£125) Fire might actually benefit the iPad. Holdonwhatnow?
You know what's awesome? Wrist-mounted anything. Literally anything that's a thing is probably cooler on your wrist. Clocks? Yeah. Phones? Maybe. Ice cream cones? Sure! And homemade, laser-sighted crossbows? Yeah, I want a piece of that, and you do too.
This is the Thames Hub airport, part of an billion-pound project that would include a railway terminal connecting to England and Europe through high speed trains, huge depots and a port. Total cost of this pipe dream: £50 billion.
Despite representing different stages of human evolution, it looks like European Homo Sapiens might have had a penchant for a little Neanderthal booty. Or vice versa.
Violent mass attacks are one of the biggest fears of Olympic organisers. Each venue handles security in their own way. So what will London do this summer? Keep main venues surrounded by waterways and a network of underground bunkers for British SAS ops.
Coventry University has just joined the likes of Northumbria University, Abertay University in Dundee and City University in London, with its first ethical hacking course. A £37,000 'Ethical Hacking Lab' aims to provide l33t hacker skills to the next generation.
Toshiba's got two entries into ultrabook category on their way to the UK. The Portégé Z830 and Satellite Z830 should arrive here by late November and set you back from £899.
What, you may be asking, is the point of unveiling a tablet alongside one that's touted as being the "Media Edition"? Shouldn't all tablets have media at its heart? Funnily enough, the Media Edition is smaller, at 8.2-inches, with the Xoom 2 clocking in at 10.1-inches.
British download service 7digital has followed up on its initial Android app release for phones with a fancy Honeycomb-optimised tablet experience. The free app gives you access to 7digital's store with 16 million tracks and their cloud locker service to sync your purchases. [Android Market]
Sky is planning to launch a standalone Sky Movies mobile app, which will introduce stacks of new editorial content, trailers and more, alongside traditional schedule listings.
Styled kind of like an old Kodak Brownie, Lomography's first-ever video camera, the Lomokino, shoots video on ordinary rolls of 35mm film with a little crank of a handle. Capable of squeezing up to 50 seconds of footage onto a standard 36-frame roll, the finished results are a real throw back to ye olden days.
Google's latest update of its Android Market app adds a few nice little tweaks, most notably the option to have all apps automatically update themselves by default, rather than users having to select the auto-update toggle manually for each.
Apparently people still download and use RealPlayer. According to RealNetworks, the UK alone downloads the 16-year old multimedia player between 8000 and 12,000 times a day, and it's on course to hit 100 million downloads this year.
You need to get in shape. Or maybe you are in shape, and want to be...inshaper. These fitness watches will run you ragged, or at least track your heart beats; distance travelled, and speed until you win this thing.
For the most part, itty-bitty satellite speakers are just all right—a compromise made for convenience. The new Boston Acoustics SoundWare S system looks like it might actually be able to blow up a room with sound.
A committee of MPs is asking Ofcom to up its plans for the UK's future 4G network, saying it should increase its coverage demands from including 95 per cent to 98 per cent of the country.
