10/17/2011, Apart from Apple’s brand new iPhone 4S featuring an A5 dual-core processor, one of the features boasted by Apple regarding the iPhone 4S is its supposed longer lasting battery, which we guess can help seal the deal for some who may be worried about battery life on their smartphones. Unfortunately based on tests conducted by iLounge during their review of the phone, revealed that the supposed longer lasting battery only […]

08/17/2011, It is said that the Asus Eee Pad Transformer comes with Corning’s very own Gorilla glass – the very same stuff that you can find on some of the newer smartphones from HTC and of course, the famous iPhone 4 from Apple. Now, Gorilla glass is supposed to be tough – extremely tough, boasting a chemically strengthened screen which does its bit to help protect it from regular bumps and […]

07/18/2011, While we don’t need an app to tell us that we’re stressed out, wouldn’t it be interesting to find out how stressed out we are? In a quantifiable manner? The folks over at KDDI thought so too, and came up with an app and hardware combination for Android phones to do the job. While it’s not available for sale (it currently is an experiment by KDDI’s R&D team), it was […]

05/23/2011, According to reports online, members of the Motorola Feedback Network have started receiving emails informing them that the enrollment survey for a confidential Droid X project is now up. Hopeful members can head over to the page and complete the survey if they are interested in joining the test program. We’re still wondering because we don’t know what the test is all about. Folks have been speculating that it’s the […]

05/16/2011, The HTC Thunderbolt isn’t exactly the most snazzy smartphone out there in the market simply because its battery life is not something most of us would like to live with (translated to extremely short in relation to other makes and models), despite the fact that it boasts of 4G connectivity to help you zip along quickly on the Internet when you are mobile. Well, perhaps the latest operating system update […]

04/14/2011, One thing that sets Google Chrome apart from the web browser competition is the fact that folks who love testing new software have access to the latest updates on a frequent basis. As we all know, new features always make people happy and the constant stream of new features from the developer builds of Chrome keep these hungry people satisfied, while the folks who aren’t too keen on testing the […]

04/12/2011, Who needs to wait for official announcements or presentations from Microsoft to find out more about their upcoming operating system when you can just download the OS instead? Some folks have managed to get their hands on an early build of Windows 8 and posted it online for the whole world to see/download. Ouch. Microsoft definitely isn’t going to be too happy about this. However, it’s still much too early […]

04/12/2011, Even though Internet Explorer 9 was released only about a month ago, Microsoft are now ready to unveil the next version of their internet browser at MIX11. Called Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Microsoft claims the browser “will push the boundaries of what developers can do on the web even further.” The web browser will be embracing the HTML5 standard even more this time around; a move that they hope other […]

04/04/2011, While Samsung are taking their time to update the operating system on their debut tablet (hint: it’s probably going to be awhile more, just to ensure their other tablets sell better), the folks over at XDA-developers have already managed to port the tablet-optimized operating system for the tablet. But just like most first builds of Android ROMs – almost everything on this build is broken. Besides it being able to […]

03/30/2011, According to a recent experiment conducted in the UK, it has been proven that the iPhone helps to save lives. At the Royal United Hospital in Bath, 31 doctors with similar experience were split into two groups – those without iPhones and those with. In their respective groups, they were put up to the task of handling a simulated cardiac arrest emergency and judged by their performance. Those with iPhones […]

03/14/2011, Fans of BMW’s upcoming hybrid sports car, the i8, will be pleased to know that the car has made the transition from being concept sketches on paper to being a prototype vehicle. The folks over at Bimmerpost have managed to catch the vehicle being tested on some snowy terrain, and they’ve even caught pictures and videos of it. If I had to describe the car in one word, sexy would […]

01/31/2011, Regardless of what you think of the giant-sized Kno dual-screen tablet, if you do decided to purchase one, at least you’ll know that it has gone through some testing. A video has surfaced of the tablet being tested by a Lego robotic arm, which is used to test the touchscreens and ambient light sensors. It looks quite fun and cheeky at the same time, and hopefully it did a good […]

12/13/2010, Not everything is set in stone just yet, but folks over at the Wall Street Journal have mentioned that Comcast has begun to test features which will definitely have Google TV and TiVo executives sit up and take notice. Basically, Comcast is looking to enable cable set-top boxes access streaming video directly from the Internet right into your living rooms. It will merge the functionalities of a DVR with unified […]

10/14/2010, Robots aren’t supposed to hurt human beings but the folks over in a robotics lab in Slovenia are using robots to do just that, though in a controlled environment and for test purposes only. The research involves using a powerful robot to hit (voluntary) human test subjects over and over again to induce anything from a mild to unbearable pain. The aim was to assess human-robot pain thresholds, and while […]