General Tech

I fondly remember as a kid, getting a new book and wondering what cool and exciting adventures lay within. The smell of the paper, the feel of the pages on my fingers as I flipped them over.  It appears as if the charms of a paperback are dwindling, as electronic …

Not sure how many KitGuru readers would buy a new Volvo, but just in case you do, we wanted to flag an email that's been sent from Volvo HQ. Following the Toyota brake safety issue, you can't be too safe and it's always better to have all of the facts. …

Ever since we were kids, we've known that the day would come when lasers, phasers and disruptors would become the weapon of choice. Now it seems that, at some level, that day is at hand. Los Alamos, America's famous ‘Can we kill them better/faster/more efficiently' centre has issued a statement …

Sources close to Kitguru in China have leaked that the 3DS will have a battery life of up to seven hours with 3D mode disabled. The information we were given last night indicate that under normal ‘3D enabled' conditions the battery should last around 4 hours under heavy use. Every …

During a recent visit to a test facility, KitGuru undercover agents managed to gain entry to a very unusual meeting. It was at Thermaltake's brand new Taipei office block and the meeting was to find the ladies who would be running the all important booth at Computex 2011 in June. …

If you have been eyeing the Kinetic for the Xbox 360, but aren't willing to move to a console platform, then ASUS might just have the product you want in 2011. Their Kinetic clone will be called the WAVI Xtion and they are planning to showcase it at the CES …

Many gamers are waiting anxiously for the new Nintendo 3DS, the 3D portable gaming device which is set to take the portable gaming market by storm. Strangely, Nintendo have issued a warning that the device should not be used by children under 6 when in full 3D gaming mode. Nintendo …

Google do many things right. They still have the most comprehensive online search engine and their Android operating system is taking the world by storm. But for every success story there has to be a product sitting in the shadows, failing to excite customers. Google TV was expected to be …

The Microsoft Kinect device for the Xbox 360 has been a surprise success story, selling millions of units since it was released. As with many popular pieces of hardware, the modding community are out in full force finding weird and wacky uses for the motion sensing device. Many owners found …

At Christmas I would imagine many of us would like to relive our childhood. The good old days when we got remote control cars and Lego boxes under the tree. Arctic Cooling have just announced that they are selling a series of remote controlled vehicles to help all us geeks …

Amazon are set to enhance the Kindle service to match Google's eBookStore, feature for feature. This means they will “enable users to read full books in the browser and [enable] any Website to become a bookstore offering Kindle books.” Google's eBookstore already offers these features and it appears to be …

Several days ago KitGuru published an article on the Oracle SuperCluster, with 1,728 processor cores. In this article Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was rather scathing in his comments about Hewlett Packard. Larry Ellison said that HP's high end products were comparible to a ‘turtle' and highly vulnerable in the market. …

Wacky Wafaa Bilal, a New York University photography professor has been in the news in local New York papers for a while now. Understandably so, as he has had a camera implanted in the back of his head. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal he said that the camera is …

Matthew Crippen, a 28 year old Xbox modder from California has luckily escaped prison time after being arrested by Homeland Security. Mr Crippen was running a business from home, modifying Xbox 360 game consoles to play pirated games and other content. He was charging $60 to $80 for his work …

Kitguru has reported on the Microsoft Kinetic success story – they have sold well over 2.5 million units since it launched, incredible figures which has broken all analyst expectations. Our sources confirmed this morning that Microsoft are actually selling over 125,000 units every day, in the run up to the …

Some analysts said that Microsoft's Kinetic might not sell that well in the run up to Christmas, but clearly they have been proved wrong. Latest figures  after Black Friday sales in America show that the sensor has sold over 2.5 million units, already. 2.5 million units sold in such a …

Whenever a deal comes together, you can look at the component parts and make some kind of guess as to how the reduction was made possible. KitGuru gets tons of emailed offers every day, but this one grabbed our attention. Here's why. The deal itself is for a CPU with …

It's nice when the multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporations that we have all (at some point) helped fund, turn around and do neat little competitions to win cool stuff.  nVidia has today stepped up to that plate. Here's the detail you need to enter. The GeForce community site is in its …

When scientists embark on multi-billion dollar projects to launch satellites, map the earth and set up the most advanced tracking & computational centres ever seen, they were probably in Star Trek mode. Certain that they were adding to the sum of human knowledge and helping NASA to reach for the …

Well. There it is. Official. KitGuru has just stormed past the 1,000 articles mark. We'd just like to take a quick step back from beginning work on the next 1,000 articles to stop and thank you, our readers, for all of your support since this site launched in back in …

KitGuru spent a day in London learning about Asus’ next range of motherboards which are based on the next generation Intel platform. There are a number of new features that excite us and we look forward to testing the motherboards fully when they’re released. Asus had four motherboards on show …

After receiving many emails I wanted to apologise if anyone has been experiencing issues today and yesterday evening. We performed what we thought was a routine backup yesterday and encountered some problems. At first we thought Faith, our drunken news hound had spilt her vodka over the server. The site …

INSOMNIA (i-Series) events are the biggest LAN gaming competitions in this part of the world and the next one kicks-off on Friday 12th November, at Newbury Racecourse, for 4 days. KitGuru will be there to investigate. Slowly, but surely, LAN gaming continues to grow. Everyone starts playing against the computer. …

Another week and yet another court case. This time Microsoft are suing Motorola for unreasonable levels of royalties for technology the Redmond OS giant uses in the Xbox game console. Microsoft have alleged that Motorola have breached commitments made to standards organisations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …

Like every industry, the world of technology includes some real giants. Standing nearly 7 feet tall*, Tim Smalley is just such a man and we've been sent a pic of the Expert Reviews editor saying goodbye to Bit-Tech, the site he helped found many moons ago. Joking aside, Tim is …

Researchers at the American space agency have found new signs of life after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck in wet ground on the red planet. Astronomers are excited by the latest discovery which they claim proves that water, important for the existance of life has formed on Mars, …

The USA have just lost the world's fastest supercomputer title to China, with their Tianhe-1A taking over the top slot. The Tianhe-1A has 1.4 times the power of the closest rival according to Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains the offical supercomputer rankings. Although this list …

We all know the Sony Walkman, it was a piece of history. I still remember heading into work in the morning with my trusty compilation tapes ready to blast out 80's tracks such as Spandau Ballet and Adam Ant (yes I have crap taste in music I know). According to …

Today we have a new product from the NZXT line of accessories in our test lab.  The product we are going to look at is a set of LED’s with a black mesh sleeve that runs the entire length of the cable. These LED’s come in a wide range of …

According to The Register – Microsoft senior product manager Greg Sullivan surprisingly said that Phone 7 looks to be a poor choice for Tablets, prefering to focus on Windows 7 for this medium. “Windows 7 will provide a richer touch and applications experience and will be necessary on tablets.” he …