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Apple bringing two All-new iPhone’s next year
Matt | November 11, 2013 |
According to Bloomberg, Apple will be releasing two brand new iPhone designs next year. One to have a 4.7 and the other to have a 5.5 inch display. In the report posted by Bloomberg yesterday, the new devices will not only have larger displays but they will also have curved glass. Certainly it would make […]

An Introduction to the Amstrad CPC 6128
Gareth | November 11, 2013 |
The third video in his retrospective series of the Amstrad range Gareth moves onto the big daddy, the CPC 6128. This machine replaced the lesser know Amstrad CPC 664 making up for most of the shortcomings and becoming one of the most popular products Amstrad ever produced. The CPC6128 was released in August 1985 and initially […]

Android gaming update 11-11-13
Gareth | November 11, 2013 |
Another week over and a collection of new entries on the Play store. What’s new and what’s reduced? Star Wars: Tiny Death Star sees the player building up a Death Star with over 80 types of Star Wars themed residential and commercial floors to attract residents and commerce in their Death Star. Just like Sim Tower! Earn […]

Sony’s new 3D headset now available
Gareth | November 11, 2013 |
Most are getting excited about the Oculus Rift and rightly so as they have recently announced Android compatibility. However, Sony has now made available the third generation of Sony’s HMZ headset line, following the HMZ-T1 (2011) and the HMZ-T2 (2012). The wireless head-mounted device provides two HD OLED screens generating a virtual 750 inch screen from […]

Matt | November 10, 2013 |
I’ve had my Reprap for ages but haven’t really used it much lately, but today I thought I’d dust of off and have a play with it. So, just for fun, here is a time-lapse video my Reprap Prusa Mendel printing a Christmas tree. This is playing back at proximately 30x real time, the actual […]

Gareth | November 10, 2013 |
Just over a month after launch, HP’s newest Chromebook is already available to buy for less than £200 in the UK. The colourful, ARM-based notebook has had £30 slashed off its recommended retail price of £229 at a number of leading online retailers. Powered by a Samsung Exynos chipset, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC storage, the device […]

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 unboxing and setup video
Matt | November 10, 2013 |
The quality and pixel count of cameras built in to smartphones is improving all the time but there are always compromises to be made when you’re cramming a sensor and optics in to a package small enough to fit in to a smartphone where anything over about 10mm is considered too ‘fat’. There have been […]

iPad Air Explodes in Australian Vodafone Shop
Matt | November 9, 2013 |
Not a good headline for Apple. In a Vodafone store in the city of Canberra, Australia, one of Apple’s new flagship iPad Air’s explodes during shopping hours leading to a full scale evacuation of the store and requiring the fire brigade to be be called to extinguish the fire. According to several reports the store […]

Matt | November 9, 2013 |
I’ve had my Google Nexus 5 for just over a week and one of the questions I’ve been frequently asked via twitter and Google+ 1 was whether or not I had experienced any issued with the WiFi in the Nexus 5. Up until yesterday the answer I gave was no. Despite using a large number […]

Matt | November 9, 2013 |
Android has long been used on smartphones and tablets but what about home, fixed-line phones? Here we have the Panasonic PRX-120, a home phone system where the handset is running Android 4.1. It’s perhaps a little surprising that there aren’t more phone systems that run on Android. With the PRX-120 we have a base unit that […]
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