Is there any form of technology in human history that has developed as rapidly as the mobile phone? Let’s consider what is generally acknowledged to be the first ever commercially available portable cellphone. Made by Motorola and launched in 1983, the DynaTAC 8000X was 13 inches high, weighed 28 ounces, and gave a maximum talk time of one hour (imagine!). It was, in short, a brick, and although it gained Read More ...
Low inventory of Apple’s MacBook Pro notebooks may force them to release a new model before the end of the month. Some people inside the company in Cupertino revealed that Apple has put many of its operating segments on alert for a big product launch ahead of schedule. This launch had been publicised for a week later. It seems as if this announcement is regarding the next MacBook Pro. They Read More ...
President Obama had dinner with Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, on the night of the news that Apple had antitrust regulators breathing down his neck. He is under attack from both sides. The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department have opened inquiries into Apple’s subscription service for the iPhone and iPad that was just restructured. Any publishers selling their content from within the iPhone or iPad must pay Apple Read More ...
Are you embarrassed by your smelly shoes? The SteriShoe is your remedy, sterilising odour-causing bacteria with UV light. It has the appearance of a shoe tree which is placed in the shoe. When it is turned on it zaps the odours. The manufacturer says the SteriShoe will eradicate 99.9% of odour-causing bacteria in a mere 3/4 of an hour. It is effective on the shoes of sufferers of toenail fungus, Read More ...
A new rival to the i-Pad has been launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 features the first android system that has been custom-built for tablets, Android 3.0 (or ‘Honeycomb’). Its operating system has been likened to Windows XP and it is almost exclusively touchscreen with a couple of navigation buttons added almost as an afterthought. It has an eight megapixel rear-facing camera and a Read More ...
“THE DARK KNIGHT” AND “INCEPTION” - AVAILABLE FOR iPHONE, iPOD TOUCH AND iPAD - Studio Leads the Way with Fully-Loaded, Connected Viewing Experience Offering Downloading, Streaming, Bonus Content, Music, Games, Soundboard and Seamless Social Media Integration Warner Bros Digital Distribution, the market leader in electronic sales and video-on-demand announced that they will launch new app versions of their blockbuster films ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Inception’ offering consumers and film lovers Read More ...
The Xperia play, Sony’s Playstation Phone is finally with us. Launched last weekend in Barcelona, the phone will come with some bundled software, which is thought to include the extremely popular Crash Bandicoot. Sony has announced that there will be fifty-plus titles available at launch; however it is likely that these will be existing games from the PS Store simply retrofitted. Sony’s Kaz Hirai confirmed that the PS Store would Read More ...
Pictures of Motorola’s tablet, the Xoom, have been intercepted from Best Buy, the American retail shop, and published on Engadget, the tech site. According to the ad, the tablet is set to hit the shelves 24th February and the cost will be nearly $800. Most tech experts agree it’s far too expensive. Gizmodo rants and raves, “Ok, so the guts are nothing short of amazing. The Xoom by Motorola is Read More ...
3D technology is not limited to the silver screen and small screen anymore as Nintendo is bringing it into the gaming world on March 25th with the release of the Nintendo 3DS. However, unlike the theatre the cutting edge technology behind the 3DS allows you to experience state of the art 3D graphics without any special glasses so that you can use it pretty much anywhere. Small enough to still Read More ...
