Samsung has announced three new models to add to its lineup of notebooks - the QX series, the RF series and the SF series. We haven't had a chance to test any of these units yet, but the press release offers the following information:
QX Series: This Core i5-driven notebook is made for professionals
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Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
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Cell phones come with all kinds of applications these days, but researchers at MIT have developed one with the power to change more than just a Facebook status. Using a small plastic lens that clips to a cell phone screen, the software can determine
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Dyson's award-winning fan range has expanded to add two new members to its stable. With the same bladeless technology as existing
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With a background in computer science and fashion design, Sydneysider Davina Reichman may be uniquely qualified to launch the country's first wearable iPad clothing range.
Dubbed iClothing by Reichman and her creative partner, fashion
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When it comes to home comforts, few inventions can beat the air conditioner for its ability to help us tolerate the dog days of summer. The problem is, when it comes to energy-guzzlers, few inventions can beat the air conditioner.
But the US National Renewable
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Imagine a gesture-based mobile device with no screen, no keyboard, and no other peripheral inputs or outputs, a mobile device that's not really a device at all. Can you see it in your mind's eye? If so, you're probably picturing something akin to a new
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In IBM's planned future, everything will communicate with everything. The company has now announced a new software development kit, Mote Runner, that will allow programmers to put anything
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Apple, through powers of both good and evil, always finds a way to captivate like no other with their new product launches. But in unveiling the iPhone 4 today, they had an unfamiliar challenge to deal with: a world that has already seen in great detail the new product
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Steve Jobs promised us the iPad would change our lives, and while it hasn't been all things to all people - what about that front-facing camera, Steve? - the beauty of such a device is that developers (to the extent that Apple will allow them, anyhow) are free to get as creative as they want
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Samsung has announced three new models to add to its lineup of notebooks - the QX series, the RF series and the SF series. We haven't had a chance to test any of these units yet, but the press release offers the following information:
QX Series: This Core i5-driven notebook is made for professionals
Read more...
The Most Advanced R/C Car LOSI 1/10 TEN-T TRUGGY RTR Top speed: 72km/h Size: 34.3 x 45 cm. Price: US$500 Get it: losi.com
This 18-inch off-roader
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Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
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Imagine a gesture-based mobile device with no screen, no keyboard, and no other peripheral inputs or outputs, a mobile device that's not really a device at all. Can you see it in your mind's eye? If so, you're probably picturing something akin to a new
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Dreaming of running up Mt. Kilimanjaro? Do it today. The NordicTrack X7i Incline Trainer raises and lowers itself to mimic the dips and hills of real-world topography.
The X7i downloads maps over Wi-Fi from a Web site called iFit, which lets you pick popular routes like San Francisco's
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Steve Jobs promised us the iPad would change our lives, and while it hasn't been all things to all people - what about that front-facing camera, Steve? - the beauty of such a device is that developers (to the extent that Apple will allow them, anyhow) are free to get as creative as they want
Read more...
Apple, through powers of both good and evil, always finds a way to captivate like no other with their new product launches. But in unveiling the iPhone 4 today, they had an unfamiliar challenge to deal with: a world that has already seen in great detail the new product
Read more...
Dyson's award-winning fan range has expanded to add two new members to its stable. With the same bladeless technology as existing
Read more...
Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
Read more...
After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
Read more...
Imagine a gesture-based mobile device with no screen, no keyboard, and no other peripheral inputs or outputs, a mobile device that's not really a device at all. Can you see it in your mind's eye? If so, you're probably picturing something akin to a new
Read more...
Steve Jobs promised us the iPad would change our lives, and while it hasn't been all things to all people - what about that front-facing camera, Steve? - the beauty of such a device is that developers (to the extent that Apple will allow them, anyhow) are free to get as creative as they want
Read more...
In IBM's planned future, everything will communicate with everything. The company has now announced a new software development kit, Mote Runner, that will allow programmers to put anything
Read more...
With a background in computer science and fashion design, Sydneysider Davina Reichman may be uniquely qualified to launch the country's first wearable iPad clothing range.
Dubbed iClothing by Reichman and her creative partner, fashion
Read more...
Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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3-D printing is finally hitting the mainstream. Hewlett-Packard,
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