Another week, another batch of fanciful designs and concepts. Industrial designers produce the kind of tech you can only dream of, largely because they don’t concern themselves with problems like current tech limitations and physics. …But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the week’s top designs and hope for the best. Read more
November, 2011
We know it’s late on a Friday, but really, you should watch this video before heading home for the weekend. Microsoft is suggesting just a few uses for Kinect on a PC, and it’s nothing short of jaw-dropping.
With Adobe Flash for mobile devices about to fall off the face of the Earth and HTML 5 flying the flag for new web page development, it looks as though the web standard that’s caused so much contention is about to meet its maker. It’s only right to celebrate such a thing by pointing out its best bit – Flash games. Read more
Samsung netbooks are officially a dying breed, as an outed company memo has declared that the diminutive laptops will cease to be manufactured in 2012. So where will Samsung focus its portable computing efforts instead? Read more
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet’s not had the best time of things, with poor critical reception, vital missing services and Adobe giving up on one of its biggest selling points. Now, it’s being touted by RIM as a freebie to lure people into upgrading their BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
Gears of War 3 ended in pretty definitive style, right? So how can you wring yet more cash out of a gaming series that sells millions within the first week of each title’s release? Easy, you make prequels. That’s what’s coming from makers Epic Games, but are the new games destined for Microsoft’s next console, the Xbox 720? Read more
It’s Black Friday at Apple, meaning that prices on most of the tech-maker’s kit have been discounted. Black Friday is the online store communities way of trying to coerce you into starting your Christmas shopping, but has Apple done enough across the board? Read more