The Wii is a television-based video game console, from the Japanese company Nintendo. The main feature is a new controller that is similar to conventional remote controls, but has built-in motion sensors. This registers the position and movement of the controller in the room and translates them into corresponding movements of characters or elements on the screen. The users in conventional game systems used the buttons on the controller or analog sticks, Read More ...
Kinect is a hardware package for controlling the video game console Xbox 360, which has been sold since the beginning of November 2010. Kinect was developed by Microsoft, together with the company PrimeSense. Players can use it instead of using conventional gamepads controlling games only through body movements. Kinect was shown for the first time at the E3 gaming convention first June 2009 presented to the public under the code name Project Natal. Read More ...
The race is still on in the e-reader market, and consumers are the winners. Many, many consumers; according to latest reports, Amazon is expecting to sell eight million of its Kindles this year, at around £90 for the Wi-Fi only model and £123 with added 3G support. Apple iPads, however, had already reached 7.5 million in sales at the end of September, so it’s anybody’s guess, and it doesn’t really Read More ...
Last Friday a new iPhone translation app was the buzz of the mobile world as it can instantly offer translations for almost every common foreign language. The app, titled Word Lens, works by offering users the chance to photograph any foreign language with the camera and then it instantly translates the text into English. Since the app launched the developer behind it, Quest Visual, stated that it has been hit Read More ...
More gadgets from Google to boggle the mind and savvy users will find a whole new realm of possibilities in Google’s Shared Spaces. This offshoot of the Wave technology will allow you to utilize any of fifty different gadgets for everything from organizing a carpool to putting together a business proposition, and you can play chess, too. Shared Spaces is described by TechWWWorld as a design that will “give developers Read More ...
HTC HD7 Smartphone is proving popular in the highly competitive Smartphone market. The phone, powered by HTC hardware and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS, has already sold in abundance and is likely to continue doing so. Beautifully designed, HTC HD7 boasts a long list of state-of-the-art features. With its virtually lag-free 4.3 inches LCD screen, it is best equipped for viewing videos, photos, and browsing the internet. The handset comes Read More ...
With 7 million units sold in the first six months from its launch, Apple iPad has indubitably rekindled people’s enthusiasm with tablet PCs. It filled the gap between the laptop and the mobile phone, offering a more portable multimedia-consumption device. In January, Steve Jobs’s official unveiling of the device ended a yearlong of speculations. An arguably trickier job, however, was bringing the Beatles music to iTunes. Apple Inc had a Read More ...
HTC is a purveyor of many fine Android handsets, with the HTC Gratia become another of the mid range options produced by this firm, following on from the HTC Hero, Legend and Wildfire. It will run Android 2.2 and it is being seen as a European edition of the HTC Aria which was available only on Asian markets. The HTC Gratia definitely looks like a gorgeous piece of kit. With Read More ...
Nikon’s D7000 digital single lens reflex camera may be a step higher than the 5000, but it is actually an upgraded D90. This is the very top of the line model for consumers, before you get into Nikon’s professional grade cameras. DSLR cameras are generally considered professional, but in actuality there are three different grades of DSLR cameras. First, there are the starter grade DSLR cameras, which are for amateur Read More ...
ASUS is going to release a new laptop with plenty to get excited about. The new ASUS U36JC comes fully loaded with the Nvidia GeForce 310M, along with 1GB of DDR3 RAM in a 13.3 Core i5 or i3 notebook. Dual heat pipe technology keeps the guts of the machine cool and the palm rest doesn’t heat up either. The cover is made of magnesium-aluminium alloy and you have to Read More ...
