Month: August 2010
Low cinema attendance figures: are 3D films to blame?
This summer saw US cinema attendance figures hit their lowest point in 5 years. Hollywood.com estimates that 552 million people hit theatres across the States, compared to the previous lowest point of 563.2 million back in 2005. What's thought to…
Xbox Live Gold subscription prices getting a hike
If you've been holding out on renewing your Xbox Live Gold subscription, you should probably think about getting on with it sooner rather than later. Microsoft have announced that the cost of accessing the Gold tier of their online network…
IFA 2010: ViewPad 7 Android tablet is also a massive phone!
Viewsonic have officially revealed the details of their forthcoming ViewPad 7 tablet device. Sorry, did we just call it a tablet? Well make that a tablet/phone hybrid! Yep, the Android Froyo packing ViewPad 7 will also double up as a…
IFA 2010: Details of LG's 31 inch 3D OLED leak ahead of Berlin debut
It's been heralded as the future of flatscreen TVs, but OLED screens have so far been so small and expensive that they've remained something of a novelty. Until now that is. Details have leaked of an LG super OLED set…
Samsung YP-Q3 media player revealed ahead of expected iPod Nano launch
Samsung have revealed details of a snazzy new personal media player, the YP-Q3. Featuring wide-ranging file format support, including playback of H.264 and XviD videos and OGG and MP3 songs, it'll be more-or less compatible with anything you throw at…
Olympus E-5 DSLR to be revealed on 14th September?
Olympus will launch the follow up to their now-3-years old E-3 DSLR (pictured) on 14th September. According to 43Rumours, the next Olympus DSLR will be the E-5, which will launch just ahead of the Photokina exhibition in September. If the…
Tablet PCs Buyers Guide: Part One – Operating Systems
Netbooks are like, SO last year. This year, computing is all about the tablet. After many unsuccessful attempts at capturing the public's imagination with the form from the likes of Microsoft, Apple finally nailed it with their iPad. It's…
Valve want to make Half Life movie
Gaming properties are hot stuff in Hollywood right now, but very rarely do they capture the imagination of audiences as well as their console counterparts did. Just look at the woeful Super Mario Bros. movie. Even the recent big-budget Prince…
Back to the Future self-lacing trainers patent filed by Nike
Remember the uber-cool self-lacing trainers that featured in Back to the Future II? If you don't, firstly there's no way we're ever going to be friends. Secondly, hit the video below to check them out. Remember now? Well today…
Top 20 tablet PCs: The Apple iPad and its many, many rivals
The annual IFA technology conference is set to kick off once again in Berlin next week, and amongst the 3D TVs, laptops, cameras and other gadget gear is set to be a ton of tablet devices too. So far it's…