Peripherals

Atlona AT-HDVieW Scaler Transforms VGA With Audio To HDMI

1:35AM Mark Wilson | Say you’ve got an aging laptop that would be perfect for playing WoW or Star Trek Online on your television… if only it had HDMI out – that’s where the Atlona AT-HDVieW comes into play. More »
Science

Have You Ever Seen A Lunar Rainbow?

1:20AM Jesus Diaz | This is not a rainbow. It’s a moonbow, an extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon caused by the near-full moon that is extremely hard to catch. So hard, in fact, that you can only see its colours thanks to long-exposure photography. More »
Hardware

Nvidia Optimus Switches Between Amped Up And Power-Sipping Graphics

1:00AM Brian Barrett | We’ve seen more than a few Core i5 notebooks recently, all of which have been hamstrung by Intel’s weak integrated graphics. Now, Nvidia’s Optimus enables their discrete GPUs to work in current-generation Intel PCs, whether Intel likes it or not. More »
Software

Apple Aperture 3 Brings A Little Bit Of iPhoto To Pro Photos

12:30AM Matt Buchanan | It’s been a long time coming, but Apple’s latest pro photo software, Aperture 3 is here. Apple’s claiming over 200 new features, pulling in iPhoto stalwarts like Faces and Places, and new slideshows with HD video. More »
Hardware

Seagate Savvio 10K.4 Drive Puts 600GB Into 2.5-Inch Form

12:00AM Brian Barrett | The Seagate Savvio 10K.4 is an enterprise storage HDD, which means you’re likely not going to just go out and buy one. But it’s notable for just how much information it can fit into one tiny disk drive. More »
Vehicles

Trexa Electric Car Platform Will Cost Upwards Of $US15,999

11:06PM Kat Hannaford | No longer do you need to fantasise about buying a Tesla, now that Trexa has released pricing details of its “scalable lithium-drive platform” (aka the base for building your own electric car). More »
Online

Apple Store Down – Time For Twitter To Crash With Speculation

10:45PM Kat Hannaford | Gasp! Whatever could it be? I’m hoping for new MacBook Pros, what about you? More »
Phones

Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC

10:44PM Kat Hannaford | A few leaks here and there, and voila – Samsung’s Monte S5620 is revealed ahead of MWC. Running the TouchWiz 2.0 Plus OS, it has full HTML browsing and the usual array of social networking tricks. More »
Computers

Notion Ink Adam Tablet: Flash, 1080p, 2x iPad Battery Life

9:23PM Kat Hannaford | Flash, a longer battery life, outputting video at 1080p, a $US1 million app competition – these are just some of the ways Notion Ink is hoping its Android-powered Adam tablet will be able to win customers over. More »
Phones

LG Mini GD880 Phone Has 16:9 Ratio, Looks Hot To Trot

8:36PM Kat Hannaford | This LG Mini GD880 is so good-looking it makes my brain hurt at the injustice of it (presumably) running LG’s S-Class OS, and not Android. Still, there’s some nice spec to back up this slim 16:9 phone. More »