OK so this could be your chance to own a piece of gadget history…. Or it could be a geek with a cracked iPhone making it look extremely retro! According to the eBay description, this iPhone prototype was constructed a few months prior to the real iPhone’s release, and it powers on, makes calls and receives SMSs. It sports a [...]

Now you can’t believe everything you hear, but many rumours have been flying around the last few days about Apple releasing a touch-screen notebook in quarter 3 this year. It started with the Commercial Times and DigiTimes and I picked it up off Engadget. Apparently, Wintek will supply touch-panels to Quanta computer who’ll be tasked with assembling Apple’s netbook. Get [...]

Update Further to the below, Sony have released the specs of the upcoming NWZ-X1000-series MP3 player Audio support for; MP3, WMA, and AAC at up to 320kbps Video support for; MPEG-4, H.264, and WMV 320 x 240 res, despite that 3-inch OLED screen’s 432 x 240 native resolution (why?!?!) FM tuning 802.11g/b WiFi Internet browsing with YouTube support Upto 33 [...]

Cydia, (unofficial software installer for jailbroken iPhones), has always the best place to pick up unauthorised applications for your iphone due to Apples odd, (well monopolised) approval process. Now Jay Freeman (Cydia creator) is going to step a little further into Apples world of trouble and offering jailbreak developers the chance to sell their creations for real money and take [...]

Those forward thinkers over at Asus showed us a couple of gems back at CeBit, and although we will have to wait a while to see the dual-screen laptop hitting the streets, the Fold / Unfold offering, dubbed the Airo laptop will be released around quarter 3. Closed it is supper slim, (think a pancake / piece of paper), and [...]

Well I am glad this wasn’t around 10 years ago!!!! The City of Ely Community College has become the first UK to trial the new facial recognition technology from Aurora. Officials apparantly know who is on campus at any given time which apparantly helps them in case of emergency. Ouch!

The new Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod dock is a clear cut, cool design. Aimed primarily at ipod users the 20 watt speakers also include a top loading CD slot and USB adapter enabling connection to any MP3 / 4 player. No pricing yet, but expected to hit the shelves in the coming months.

Students led by Professor Andreas Mitschele at the Ilmenau University of Technology have designed and tested new quadcopter robots as a mean of setting up Wireless networks ad-hoc and in minutes with the aim of being deployed in the event of disasters when normal infrastructure has been destroyed. Multiple robots can

Asus have released details of their new concept dual screen PC at CeBit. It can be used as an ebook reader, laptop or multimedia machine. With no keyboard present, either screen can be for display, keyboard and a trackpad eliminating the use for extra hardware. It should also be able to detect hand gestures, handwriting recognition and multi-touch. In Multimedia [...]

Ok remember the the new app stores, Microsoft’s ‘Windows Phones’ and Nokia’s ‘Ovi Store’ well as expected Blackberry have released details of their new upcoming apps store, dubbed ‘Blackberry App World‘. Marked as ‘coming soon’, App World will supply games, social networks, personal productivity applications and more which prices from free, then jumping to £2.59 in the UK or $2.99 [...]