With the rise of YouTube and other such video streaming services available to any internet-connected computer user these days, the TV has lost its role as the entertainment centrepiece of the house. Laptop and desktop computers are ever improving their entertainment capabilities and the TV
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Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in with Macintosh? My, how times have changed. Here we are more than 25 years later and the despotic,
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While everyone is busy thinking the future of video-game interfacing is Microsoft's Project Natal, UK-based Cambridge Consultants decided to change the way controllers interact with our hands. The Suma is a pliable, 3-D controller that senses how and where your hand
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When it comes to their home entertainment gear, Toshiba loves to do two things: stick Cell
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Buy a Panasonic home theatre and receive a year?s worth of Blu-ray rentals
The silly season
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Expand your Blu-ray library and support a worthy cause
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A few more features for fans of high-definition playback
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Foxtel subscribers are set to receive an attractive value-add
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Bang & Olufsen?s new plasma screen knows how to look after itself
It?s
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"Eventually, the tube was so hot that the arc had to be shut down because the fat was on the verge of spontaneous combustion"
Barbecue grills don't typically require eye protection, but then, they're typically not made from a giant TIG welder and an industrial sausage
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Bang & Olufsen?s new plasma screen knows how to look after itself
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See our gallery for a look at the future of toys
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While everyone is busy thinking the future of video-game interfacing is Microsoft's Project Natal, UK-based Cambridge Consultants decided to change the way controllers interact with our hands. The Suma is a pliable, 3-D controller that senses how and where your hand
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With the rise of YouTube and other such video streaming services available to any internet-connected computer user these days, the TV has lost its role as the entertainment centrepiece of the house. Laptop and desktop computers are ever improving their entertainment capabilities and the TV
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When it comes to their home entertainment gear, Toshiba loves to do two things: stick Cell
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Pioneer may have stepped out of the flat panel TV ring, but Loewe is just getting ready to put its gloves on
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It?s back to the future for Sony, but don?t worry, they?re still creating consumer electronics
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Also release really bad image and terrible catch line
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Multitouch screens are being integrated into surfaces all around us; not just our computer monitors, but our walls, our tables, our countertops -- pretty much any surface that is somewhat flat. So why not take advantage of the vast amount of flat workspace going un-utilised beneath our feet?
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In what can only be described as a textbook case of 'driving up demand by limiting supply', Apple has today issued a brief statement to say that all international shipments of its eagerly anticipated iPad have been delayed until the end of May. The company has attributed the delay to strong
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The director of hit television series, House MD, has revealed via Twitter that the season finale of the latest series was filmed entirely on a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR camera. We’re not sure if this is part of a directorial stunt or pre-arranged marketing activity between Canon and the makers
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Tired of waking up in the morning only to find yourself in the same lame place you woke up in yesterday (and the day before that)? Winscape is a DIY project for you: install two HD plasmas in faux window frames that display whatever scene
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Electronics giant Panasonic yesterday unveiled its 3-D TV lineup for 2010, a launch it describes as its “biggest ever”. But while competitors such as Sony and Samsung are rolling out their 3-D offerings with LCD displays, Panasonic is sticking resolutely to plasma – or what it’s now
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In an unprecedented breach for a notoriously secrecy-obsessed company, what appears to be a late-stage prototype of a next-generation iPhone has surfaced in the wild
In an unprecedented lapse for one of the world's most secretive companies, Apple has lost control of
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A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in
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As any astute computer owner would know, particularly those who are of the gamer variety, there are many possible bottlenecks when it comes to getting the most out of your computer hardware. Video cards, random access memory (RAM) and hard drives are but a few of the main hurdles to super-efficient
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It’s that time of year when the lead-up to the traditional early-September new iPod announcement from Apple is heating up. This results in various theories, rumours and a liberal dash of misdirection as to what we can all expect to hear from the big Apple. There were recent rumblings that
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The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum
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