Review

Computing

Asus Transformer Prime Review: The Android Tablet You’ve Been Waiting For

7:00PM January 7, 2012 | Brent Rose
Why It Matters:

In a word…speed. This tablet has not a dual, not a triple, but a quad-core 1.3GHz processor, plus a dedicated GPU. It is the first device to run NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor — the first quad-core Android tablet — and it simply blows the doors off of everything else. In terms of speed, anyway. More »


Gadgets

Zeo Mobile Is A Delight To Sleep With

4:00AM December 29, 2011 | Mat Honan

I’m tired. I’m old and I’m groggy and mentally slow. I don’t get enough exercise, or family time, and I’m sick too often. I don’t perform my best at work, or anywhere else, and I’m grumpy when I don’t mean to be and it’s all largely because I’m so damn tired. Next year, I want to get a better night’s sleep. Maybe you do too. The $US99 Zeo Mobile can help. More »


Online

Facebook Timeline Review: The Best Thing Facebook’s Done

2:00PM December 18, 2011 | Sam Biddle

In The Social Network, Movie Mark Zuckerberg describes his project as the entire college social scene, put online. In a sense, he completely pulled it off. Now Real Zuck’s lept beyond beer pong: your entire existence, Facebook-ified. It’s terrifyingly amazing. More »


Gadgets

Bonjour Turbo Whisk Review: Fluff. Froth. Fun.

3:20PM December 13, 2011 | Nicholas Kavalier - FoodRepublic.com

The staff over at Food Republic spend their days obsessing about all the delicious things that go into our stomach. So it makes sense they’d know what gadgets are best suited to the creation of good food. Today, they have froth on the brain… More »


Mobile

Nokia Lumia 800 Review: Unattainable Foreign Beauty

1:00PM November 9, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Windows Phone has been sort of a ship without a port for a while now, getting along as a platform without a must-have, lightning-rod handset. Nokia’s Lumia 800 is the first serious contender for that honour, but Mango’s knight in shining polycarbonate might not be enough to make its presence felt across the pond. More »


Mobile

All Gizmodo’s iPhone 4S Guides, Tips And Experiences

Flag
8:00AM October 21, 2011 | Gizmodo Australia

From Siri Australian accent tests, to guides of the best features in iOS 5 — there’s been heaps of iPhone 4S coverage on Gizmodo of late. So here you go: We’ve put the best of it all in one place for easy reference, and plan to ease back a little in the iPhone overload. After all, there’s plenty of innovation happening with Android and WP7, too. More »


Mobile

Nokia N9 Review: Beautifully Frustrating

Flag
2:40PM October 13, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Nokia’s N9 is a smartphone chock full of contradictions. I love the design and the operating system, but I’m frustrated by it too. It’s enough to drive me to poetry. More »


Geek Out

Mercy Hangover Remedy Lightning Review: Just Get Less Wasted

9:00AM August 12, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Man has yearned to be able to binge drink sans hangover with the same ferocity as he once wanted to venture to the heavens. Mercy doesn’t say it’ll eliminate the consequences, but claims it’ll help. This is a titanic claim. More »


_

The Best Notebooks Of The Year So Far

3:00AM June 18, 2011 | Laptop Mag

To find out the best laptops of 2011 so far, we checked in with Mark Spoonauer who, as editor-in-chief of Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, oversees 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year. If you’re buying soon, buy one of these. More »


Gadgets

Fiskars UpRoot Weed Puller: The Crabgrass Assassin

6:30AM June 1, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

The Grandpa’s Weeder has always been an effective weapon against invasive species like thistles, dandelions or crabgrass. Fiskar’s took that classic design, incorporated modern materials and produced theUpRoot – the Lee Majors of lawn care implements. More »