If you’re in the market for a new keyboard (but can’t afford an Iron Man comp) or a new mouse, (Your cat ate your last one. Maybe) then you might want to look at choosing some Microsoft hardware in the run up to the end of financial year. The big…
TomTom have long been at the forefront of satnav technology, but recently they seem to have lost some of their zing, some of their sparkle. Their Garmin satnavs doing about a month ago, and the
A war is brewing. The war for your television viewing habits. It started with TiVo. Channel 7 wants to take over your lounge room with a decent PVR, full of cool functions like SeasonPass and IP Video. Then Foxtel decided to crank it up a notch with the iQ2 –…
What do you get when you combine Australian ingenuity (and wool) and Japan’s hot, sweaty climate and love for crazy products? The answer is a suit that you can wear in the shower. Crazy? Or brilliant? After getting past the question of why you would wear a suit in the…
There’s been a few rumblings recently about the PlayTV’s European launch, but at a briefing today in Sydney, Sony announced that Australia will be getting the PlayTV in the fourth quarter this year, for less than $200, although official pricing and release dates are still to be confirmed. They also…
Nokia made a pretty big deal about having an exclusive John Butler Trio live album on their new
Before I got married, I used to joke with my fiancee that instead of getting rings made out of gold, or other expensive metals, we should find ourselves some plastic “Sha-zam!” rings that we could join together and pretend we had a Genie to fight our battles for us. She…
Google’s StreetView will be launching in Australia some time this year. The cars have already been driving around, taking photos of the street – and anyone who happens to be in them. While there are some people whinging about privacy concerns, others have been trying to show off. Like this…
Samsung OLED TVs in 2009Hate to think how much they’re going to cost. Honda’s Assisted Walking Device Makes Grandma Strut Like AsimoI’ll take two, just so I can strut like Asimo.
There’s nothing in Top Gun to prepare pilots for this: Back on April 11, an F-111 was doing a trial bombing raid exercise at Evan’s Head in northern NSW when a pelican casually crashed into the plane’s nose and was promptly sucked into one of the jet’s engines. The jet…
Forget about Hydrogen cars – they’re too big. You need to start small when it comes to saving the planet. That’s why Samsung’s creation of a mobile phone battery that’s powered by good old H20 is so exciting. The battery, which Samsung reckons will be in phones by 2010, converts…
There is still hope that eBay won’t be able to
Naked DSL seems to be getting a lot of fans in Australia at the moment, from consumers to ISPs. It might have something to do with the exorbitant price of line rental through Telstra and Optus, or it might just be that people like the thought of anything – even…
Residents in NSW’s Randwick Council received a lovely gift recently – fancy new bins for their rubbish and recycling. 78,000 of them, in fact. No it wasn’t a misguided attempt to swing votes by lavishing gifts on the electorate. It was a way of introducing RFID tags onto the bins…
Motorola may be struggling a little in the handset division, but when it comes to Bluetooth accessories, they’re still pumping out the goods. So long as you’re interested in Bluetooth accessories, that is. Their latest is the H710 Headset. It doesn’t look very different to any other Motorola Bluetooth headset,…
Time to wake up Australia – big business is about to bend you over – again – and sodomise you with your own ignorance. This time it’s eBay Australia. They’ve decided that our country is even more risky than the rest of the world when it comes to online security,…
With Nokia’s N-gage platform recently being
B&W make some awesome sounding speakers. Awesome sounding and awesome looking. So when the email saying their
Sony’s new Blu-ray recorder moves TV (not BD) to your PSPFinally, Sony’s starting to realise the potential of the PSP. Took them long enough. iPhone to become Blu-ray player remoteNot as simple as that, but yet another reason I want an iPhone nonetheless.
It’s been a tough day at the office – your boss has chewed you a new one because you were late to an all important meeting; your secretary has quit because you forgot it was her birthday and your wife has been on the phone all day threatening to leave…
Okay, it’s more like a Brunch Wrap, but it is Monday, the gremlins were in the CMS and I was underwhelmed by the Red Bull Flugtag yesterday. Now, on with the wrap… MOOV Is The Lego Of Kids VehiclesJust one more reason why we need time travel – so we…
What’s the hottest technology in the world right now? Aside from
If I didn’t have this horrible feeling in my gut that the iPhone is going to be released in Australia very soon, I’d be all over this Blackberry Deal from 3. It blows every other carrier out of the water. For $79 a month, you get a Blackberry 8707g (which is…
I can think of a few different reasons people might want a red microwave in their kitchen. They may be Ferrarri fanatics, for example, and are irrationally passionate about the colour red. Or perhaps they are butchers, who slaughter their meat in the kitchen, and want to disguise the drops…
Another Motorola Insider points fingers to incompetent execsThis story broke while I was in Fiji – I’ve been a big fan of Moto phones, so this whole business makes me very sad. Brainwashing goggles help you quit smoking, learn to kill the easy wayI have an uncanny urge to read…
