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Viewsonic Launches 3D Projectors

9:38AM Nick Broughall | Viewsonic has just announced three new 3D capable projectors for the Aussie market. Sure, we could make a big deal about the lack of 3D content to make use of the projector, but we won’t. Not today, anyway. More »
Gadgets

Archos Event Invitation Unsubtly Hints at Rumoured Android MID

7:24PM John Herrman | On its own, it’s a stretch: the invite is green and vaguely Android-y, and there’s a faint rectangular device in the background, therefore Archos must be working on an Android MID! Right? Well, they are. More »
Screens

New Pico Projectors Offer DVD-Quality Resolution

7:00AM Mark Wilson | Guess which version is the second gen DLP Pico projector. (Hint: It’s the smaller one on the right that’s better in every way.) More »
Games

Gameboy Colour Inside a TI-83 Series Calculator

7:30AM Jesus Diaz | Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Colour disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colours weren’t invented back then, and I was too busy trying to get off latin class to make out with girls in the backyard woods, anyway. But if you had existed back then, I would have been all over you too. That’s how much I like you. [Make] More »
Hardware

The Microchip Turns 50 Today, Here’s the Original

12:40AM Mark Wilson | 50 years ago today, Texas Instrument’s Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit, or microchip. It’s a crude conglomeration of just five components, but it was also proof that a circuit could be miniaturised by housing all of its components on one piece of semiconductor material, allowing all these parts to work together without laborious (and technologically infeasible) manual connections. In essence, it’s the electronic wheel captured in first eureka. [Wired] More »