Category: Gadgets

Flying Cars on the Anvil

Flying Cars on the Anvil

Soon we will see traffic jams in the sky. Thanks to the technology fueled by Terrafugia, flying cars will start to zoom past your ears. If you thought that the new set of cars will be based on Robin Williams’ Flubber, you are not way off. Except, this one has wings to go along with [...]

Apple announces 3 million iPads sold in first 80 days

Apple announces 3 million iPads sold in first 80 days

Apple on Tuesday revealed that its new multitouch iPad sold 3 million units in the product’s first 80 days of availability, with the device on sale in the U.S. only for most of that time.
“People are loving iPad as it becomes a part of their daily lives,” Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said. “We’re working [...]

Rumor: Microsoft to charge $150 for Kinect

Rumor: Microsoft to charge $150 for Kinect

The majority of Microsoft’s E3 keynote was dedicated to Kinect, the camera system formerly known as Project Natal, and we learned the device’s release date and heard details about its use in several games. But one important piece of information was still missing: the price. Soon after the keynote, Gamestop listed Kinect for $149.99, and [...]

Microsoft Ditches RRoD, Tries New Look For Dying Xbox 360 Slims

Microsoft Ditches RRoD, Tries New Look For Dying Xbox 360 Slims

Some may miss the good old days with their Xbox 360s, RRoDs, and multiple warranties…
The Microsoft Xbox 360’s “Red Ring of Death” became synonymous with hardware failure, much as the “Blue Screen of Death” formerly found in Windows became a colloquialism for operating system failure. Now the infamous failure is going away for good.
In [...]

Tweet  Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword swinging in 2011

Tweet Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword swinging in 2011

At the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo did not much more than tease that the Wii would be getting a second installment in the Legend of Zelda franchise. This year, though, the publisher led its E3 press conference with the first public demo for Link’s newest action adventure, in the process definitively announcing Legend [...]

Under a Month, Apple Sells 1 Million iPads

Under a Month, Apple Sells 1 Million iPads

Apple products are hitting the zenith, at least in its early years. The latest is the one which has made a name for itself over the past quarter, iPad. The company has reported that it has sold over a million pieces in under a month, 28 days to be precise. Let’s do some math here, [...]

Latest Windows Phone 7 ROM Reveals Progress

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Phone Developer Community Technical Preview (CTP) for Windows 7 and the folks at XDA Developers didn’t waste any time unlocking it to see what the ROM includes. Progress has been made, but time is running short for MS to finish it up, get it to manufacturers to get devices [...]

Nokia N8 Boasts Beefy Specs, Revamped Symbian 3 OS

Nokia N8 Boasts Beefy Specs, Revamped Symbian 3 OS

Nokia announced on Tuesday its latest smartphone, the multimedia-heavy N8, featuring a 12-megapixel camera and HD video recording. Its hardware specs could make any iPhone user jealous, but as the first phone to feature the latest iteration of the Symbian OS, the N8 will have to prove that Nokia’s software is a worthy competitor, too.
Available [...]

Bluetooth v4.0 Enables Low-Power, High-Speed Wireless Devices

Bluetooth v4.0 Enables Low-Power, High-Speed Wireless Devices

The core specifications for Bluetooth v4.0, a technology declared one of the “10 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011″ by Gartner based on its perceived potential to evolve and impact short-term mobile strategies and policies, have been finalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The next-generation Bluetooth wireless protocol promises lower power [...]

BlackBerry OS 6.0 Images, Details Surface

BlackBerry OS 6.0 Images, Details Surface

Earlier in February it was reported that Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS 6.0 was in the making. Now, BoyGeniusReport has acquired the first screenshots and some details of the OS. A redesigned homescreen, multi-touch gesture support for touchscreen handsets, and system-wide kinetic scrolling are few of the many features unleashed in the major upgrade. [...]

IPhone 4G Reportedly Spotted in the Wild; iPad 3G Shipping May 7

IPhone 4G Reportedly Spotted in the Wild; iPad 3G Shipping May 7

The iPhone 4G saga blows up over the weekend
“Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?” Over the weekend, Engadget posted pictures of what it claimed to be the next generation iPhone 4G. The pictures sparked quite a debate over their authenticity and many flatly rejected the design saying that it was too ugly [...]

Leaked: Dell’s 7- and 10-inch Streak tablets

Leaked: Dell’s 7- and 10-inch Streak tablets

Dell’s latest Android tablet designs, now named “Streak,” are much different–much more iPad-like–than the Mini 5 we saw a few months back at CES.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing at all.
The Mini 5 used to look (and may still look) like an oversized Android handset. But now, the newly leaked Dell Streak 7 and 10 [...]

Sony to release 3D TVs by June, amidst heavy Japanese competition!

Sony to release 3D TVs by June, amidst heavy Japanese competition!

More competition for Sony! Toshiba will also be releasing its 3D Rezga LCD TVs by this summer, equipped with the Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor. The TVs will also be able to record over LAN to both built-in and external HDDs, and will feature proprietary “2D-3D conversion” as well as “super resolution” technology.
Sony has announced that [...]

Razer Imperator Mouse Review: The ‘Commander’ Among Other Gaming Mice

Razer Imperator Mouse Review: The ‘Commander’ Among Other Gaming Mice

Razer is known for drenching all their products in dark shady hues and if the device permits then the company doesn’t hold back on the eeriness either. To perfectly compliment the offerings dished out, Razer even aptly christens them with cool names that one may espy in a sci-fi movie. We had previously just reviewed [...]

XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition In The Making

XFX Radeon HD 5970 4GB Black Edition In The Making

Even though some XFX GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 pictures leaked a couple of weeks ago, it turns out that XFX, one of the most important Nvidia partners, has chosen not to release any GeForce GTX 400 cards when these will become available later this month.
Even though we won’t see any GeForce GTX [...]