USB V3 (or USB 3.0 it is more commonly known as) is ridiculously fast. We first came across USB V3 several months ago and were in awe at the potential speeds that could be reached. The top theoretical speed is 4.8Gbit/s which is (in Spaceballs terms) Ludicrous Speed. Note: 4.8Gbps (Giga Bits Per Second) is the equivalent of 600 Megabytes per second. [Read more…]

The ability to use wireless electricity to charge your gadgets could get many of you excited. Having this technology would mean you would never have to plug anything in again to a wall as the power would be supplied over the air. Wireless Electricity is not new, but past attempts see a lot of power that is lost through the air. Can Intel make a change to this? It seems like they are heading in the right direction. [Read more…]

Mint Wireless, based in Australia, have created a very nice projector named Mint V10. This tiny pocket sized projector is designed to work with your mobile phone, PDA or UMPC and allows you to have access to a larger pocket sized screen. [Read more…]

A new type of gadget has been launched by a car insurance company which gives you (yes you) the ability to save up to 60% off your premium. [Read more…]

As time moves on we tend to become more reliant on technology. Some of the technology helps us be more productive while other technology keeps us safe. The GPS Locator falls in to a safety category. [Read more…]

Last week the police dept in Claremont received a mobile fingerprint scanning device which attaches to a mobile phone. When attached a database can be queried to find matches with in the fingerprint database. [Read more…]

Each year at CES there tends to be a competition to see who can bring to the show the largest and greatest LCD/Plasma screen. TV’s over 100″ in size frequent the show floor these days. However, those TV’s are puny compared to what Toshiba just launched in Times Square. [Read more…]

A new add-on for the Nintendo Wii has been created. It is named the MotionPlus and what it does is ads even more accuracy to the accelerometers which control where the WiiMote moves. The new accuracy brings a 1:1 response making games highly accurate. If you move the remote 1 inch then the cursor will also move 1 inch on the screen. [Read more…]

The iPhone launched last week and a number of people were concerned about battery life of the phone. Having spoken to an actual user, who says it’s just fine, I have just come across this chart which was created by PCWorld. The battery life was found to last 5 hours 38 minutes for voice which isn’t bad at all to be honest. [Read more…]

Nokia have filed a patent for a tactile feedback trouchscreen which the idea is to create a “variable and controllable user perceived surface roughness or friction coefficient”. This system works by closely spacing protuberances that are controlled by voltage. Crank up the power and the surface gets rougher basically. The surface runs completely smooth when no voltage is applied. [Read more…]

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Lex at GCIUK inviting me down to the Silverstone racetrack to meet up with Dell and the BMW-Sauber F1 team. The products being launched turned out to be the Dell Studio Laptop range of computers. [Read more…]