The Grand Theft Auto games have always featured star names: Ray Liotta, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, er, Danny Dyer - and it’s just emerged that Britain’s premier funnyman Ricky Gervais will have a small role in GTA IV.

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The Chinese do love their iPhone and iPod Touch rip-offs, but the Teclast T50 manages to stand out by having what appears to be an actual multi-touch interface. Teclast’s promotional pics show iPhone-style pinching to zoom in and out of photos, plus left-to-right swiping to browse through them. Aside from that, there’s support for tons [...]

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Filling up your Xbox 360 or PS3 hard drive already? You could replace it with a bigger version, but if you don’t fancy the extra cost/hassle Iomega has another option: its new Media Xporter offers an extra 160GB of storage for movies, photos and music. The drive is compact and doesn’t require any external power, [...]

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Heard of 4K before? Essentially it’s an ultra-high end form of hi-def that delivers movies with over four times the detail of 1080p. Yep, that’s right: that’s four times the quality of Blu-ray! Well, RED has just shown off its Red-Ray player, which delivers 4K and any resolution below it, playing video off specially made [...]

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Bluetooth headsets aren’t usually built for toughness, but the Bluetrek X3 is an exception: here is a headset for the extreme sportsperson who like to chat while ascending a sheer rock face in a sandstorm, or whilst barrelling solo down a series of white water rapids. It’s weatherproof, basically, so it’s able to shrug off [...]

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With Blu-ray’s HD format war victory assured, it’s time for every manufacturer and its mother to deliver some hi-def disc lovin’ action. This week it’s the turn of ultra-swanky German firm Loewe, which has just rolled out its first ever hi-def player - and the good folks at TrustedReviews have run the rule over it [...]

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Fatties rejoice! Nintendo is bringing its flab-burning Wii Fit peripheral to shopping centres and universities up and down the land, giving all and sundry a chance to give the balance board bolt-on a try. The tour kicks off this week in Bristol, and among other places will be hitting up London’s Grand Designs Show in [...]

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French mobile designer extraordinaire ModeLabs - recently responsible for Levi’s and Hummer branded phones - is at it again, this time with a blower stamped with the logo of increasingly unwatchable music channel MTV. Dubbed the MTV3.3, it’s a metallic red slider with a mirrored front, plus 3G, a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and a music/video [...]

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