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Reprap 3D print at 30x speed

Reprap 3D print at 30x speed

| 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 […]

HP Chromebook 11 price drop

HP Chromebook 11 price drop

| 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

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 unboxing and setup video

| 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

iPad Air Explodes in Australian Vodafone Shop

| 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 […]

Nexus 5 WiFi bug

Nexus 5 WiFi bug

| 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 […]

Panasonic PRX-120 unboxing

Panasonic PRX-120 unboxing

| 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 […]

Samsung 46″ F7000 Series 7 review (UE46F7000ST)

Samsung 46″ F7000 Series 7 review (UE46F7000ST)

| November 8, 2013 |

This month I started my Samsung 46″ F7000 Series 7 review. It has been a while since we last had a TV here to review in the office and a lot has changed since then. Prices have plummeted while screen sizes have increased and the thickness of display panels has dramatically reduced. Much of this […]

Google’s Android looks to be spreading faster than believed

Google’s Android looks to be spreading faster than believed

| November 8, 2013 |

Android fans already know that Google’s operating system quickly spread across the world, conquering everything in its path; however, this latest analysis suggests it spread even more quickly than we could have imagined as PhoneArena has recently pointed out. According to Horace Dediu, an Asymco analyst, it turns out that Android is the fastest growing technology […]

BlackBerry readying PlayBook 2?

BlackBerry readying PlayBook 2?

| November 7, 2013 |

Earlier this year, following the official launch of BlackBerry 10, there was a lot of speculation that BlackBerry would release another version of their relatively unpopular and many news stories of the coming PlayBook 2 were in circulation. Many of these were very definite with the news and stated that Q2 2013 would see BlackBerry […]

HIS launch the R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Turbo Boost Clock 3GB

HIS launch the R9 280X iPower IceQ X² Turbo Boost Clock 3GB

| November 7, 2013 |

HIS – Hightech Information System Limited are in the process of launch a super new graphics card based on the R9 280X from AMD. This card is a little different to the rest as it features the  IceQ X2 cooling system, this is designed especially to keep the noise to a minimum. The top heatsink is fairly […]

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