Skateboard fans will be getting excited about the possibility of using a hoverboard in the future. Haltek Industries want to make this a reality by starting funding on Indiegogo. If they raise $1 million then it will go ahead, but it is asking a lot from the crowdfunding platform. The …

The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart has died, aged 88. He was born on 30th January 1925 in Portland, Oregon. He studied electrical engineering at Oregen State University and then worked as a radar technician during World War II. Engelbart first came up with the idea in the …

Samsung Electronics have decided to charge a whopping $13,000 for their first curved, super thin OLED television. This is the same price as their rival LG are charging. If you missed our story yesterday then we think you might want a recap. Seiki, a small time brand are charging only …

Microsoft have said that the Xbox One will not have a headset in the bundle, but that the Kinect will provide the console with out of the box ‘in game chat capabilities'. Xbox Live has long been accepted by gamers as a more ‘vocally active' multiplayer platform than the Sony …

Android is set to continue its domination well into 2014 as analyst firm Gartner are predicting that 1 billion devices will ship next year. This analysis includes products from mobile phones to desktop PC's. Their research shows that Microsoft are in second place with Apple close behind. These positions will …

If you have missed it, then be sure to check out the new OUYA – which is released in the United Kingdom today, priced at £99.99. GAME UK have a list page already set up, for those interested. The page says ‘OUYA – a New Kind Of Game Console!' and …

Do you live in South Africa? Are you finding it hard to get hold of a quality video card? Club3D may be based in Amsterdam (Netherlands), but they are happy to announce the start of cooperation with Compitum for distribution of Club 3D products in South Africa. Marcel Van Steijn Of Club 3D …

Amazon.co.uk today announced the launch of its MP3 Store optimised specifically for iPhone and iPod touch. For the first time ever, iPhone and iPod touch users can discover and buy digital music from Amazon’s 25 million song catalogue using the Safari browser. Customers also have access to favourite Amazon features like …

Microsoft are investing $670 million US dollars in an expansion of their data center in West Des Moines, Iowa. The expansion has been code named Project Mountain and it has been awarded tax benefits. 29 new jobs are going to be created according to a statement issued by the Iowa …

Sleek is a new Wi-Fi voice activated assistant for the home. It is always connected to the internet and is said to replace the smartphone or PC as a controller and assistant device. We aren't so sure it will ever take off, but the concept is certainly worth looking at. …

A retired music theorist, who has been playing piano and typing since 1960, has drafted up a preliminary model of a computer keyboard layout, which he believes will enable most people to type at least 100 wpm, and will see the world’s fastest typists racing at 200 wpm or higher.  …

Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has announced that is considering licencing its technology to other firms in a similar fashion to the Cambridge chip maker ARM. In a statement made earlier this week Nvidia said it would start to licence both its GPU cores and its “visual computing” patent portfolio to new …

Leading international motherboard and graphics card maker MSI has just officially unveiled its latest high-end GTX 780 Gaming graphics card. Featuring NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 780 GPU with 3GB of high speed GDDR5 memory and PCI Express Gen 3, the MSI GTX 780 also comes with the exclusive MSI Gaming …

Scientists at Spain's La Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid have designed a set of augmented reality glasses that will help professors see which students are struggling with the lecture. Students will not have to lift their hand in front of other members of the course, instead keeping their struggles private. …

A Chinese supercomputer has claimed the top spot in the list of world's fastest supercomputers. It has outperformed an American system, achieving double the performance. The Tianhe-2 (Milky Way 2) was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology and now holds the title of world's most powerful computer according …

Google are launching a new shareable database which will make it easier for organisations to report and subsequently remove images of sexual abuse of children from areas of the web. Google have said that the database will identify images by a process of ‘hashing'. This algorithm can break down an …

Our American readers will be interested to hear that Microsoft have teamed up with retailer Best Buy to bring the ‘Microsoft Store' experience instore. Later this month Microsoft mini stores will be opened inside Best Buy branches – a total of 500 in the U.S. and another 100 in Canada. …

The Sony Playstation 4 will go on sale in Europe and America in time for the year end holiday season and it will cost $399, according to their E3 press briefing in Los Angeles. If you read our report last night you will already know this is $100 less expensive …

Source are said to have spoken to Globes – Israel's Business Arena. They have been told that Google will acquire Waze Ltd for a cool $1.3 billion. The Israeli navigation app and traffic report start-up will be taken over after months of reports that the deal was underway. There were …

Microsoft and the FBI have taken down a criminal network which was responsible for more than $500 million in bank fraud. Microsoft and the FBI said that they, together with a group of financial services had' disrupted' more than 1,000 botnets. The organisations have yet to identify the source of …

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that they have cut prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT licenses to hardware partners building smaller sized tablets as an incentive to drive sales. Analysts have been discussing if the cuts are enough to dramatically lower tablet prices and drive sales and are unsure if Office …

Intel's Executive Vice President Tom Kilroy has said that the PC Market could recover – even though it faces a stiff challenge from tablet systems. He said that Windows 8 had a ‘modest launch' and it meant that the PC market was ‘a year late' getting a ‘shot in the …

Dell have released some systems featuring the latest Haswell processors. They have announced at Computex that they are releasing three new Haswell desktop systems. XPS 8700 Their flagship desktop PC, the XPS 8700 tower ships with up to 4TB of storage and has four HDD trays if you need to …

Apple are on trial in New York in relation to price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government. Apple will face the U.S. Department of Justice in a non jury trial under the control of Judge Denise Cote for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. …

Apple have quietly axed the 4th gen iPod and have replaced it with a slightly stripped down 5th generation version. The iPod Touch 4G with the small 3.5 inch screen is gone. The budget iPod Touch, a 16gb version of the 5th generation touch has been added, without a rear …

Belkin first showed their Thunderbolt Express Dock back in IDF 2011. A year later and after a minor facelift it was showcased at CES 2012, due for release later that year. Finally the product has been released keeping the same low profile aluminum style exterior they used in January 2012. …

The World's largest lego model is a 1:1 scale replica of an X-Wing, complete with R2 unit. It is made up from 5,335,200 lego bricks and took 32 lego master builders 17,336 hours to create. This full scale replica stands 11 foot tall and 43 ft long, with a wingspan …

Otterbox, maker of some of the finest protective cases for smartphones has announced their acquisition of LifeProof. No figure was given for the deal. Otterbox have a well earned reputation for creating some of the finest protective cases that money can buy. My colleague Carl reviewed The Otterbox Defender for …

Amazon are taking a leaf out of Apple's handbook by announcing that they are planning a biodome for their campus headquarters in Seattle. Documents hit the Seattle Department of Planning and Development showing the new campus headquarters design. They are building the 3.3 million square foot headquarters campus in the …

For the first time in the series, PCMark 8 will combine performance testing with battery life measurement. You can estimate battery use from each benchmark test or use Battery Life mode to loop a test until the battery is almost empty for more accurate results. New Adobe and Microsoft application …