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No, it isn't the next iPad, but the first Apple computer designed way back in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The Apple 1 computer was the foundation of the business that the two Steve's created in the 70's and is firmly seen as a piece of technology history. …

Shota Ishiwatari has started a KickStarter campaign for his new RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot. He is aiming for a simple to build bot which has RGB sensors onboard with 12 servos. The price? A very cool £229. Ishiwatari has had plenty of experience in robot engineering, his company Kiluck Corp …

Other manufacturers may be focusing on bringing new high end features to their cameras, but Pentax have decided to go all out on offering a huge variety of colour schemes for their K50 mid range DSLR camera. The K50 measures 129 x 96.5 x 70 mm with an empty weight …

While Club3D might have been letting the rest of the world get a taste of its 13Series graphics cards, the overclocked, white boxed, cooler, quieter version of the reference 7 series cards from AMD, it's only now that UK customers can pick any one of them up with ease. Club3D is …

Cliff Bleszinski, or Cliffy B as he's more commonly known, used to run the show over at Epic when it came to Gears of War development. Now he's off doing other things but that doesn't mean people haven't been asking him what he thinks of the whole Xbox One debacle. Expanding …

Bitcoin is a brilliantly anonymous currency. Once its yours, you can do what you like with it and it's very difficult for anyone to track that down – you know, like cash. However one of the problems with it is that with mining becoming an unprofitable venture for all those …

While Microsoft and Sony have both publicly stated that their respective consoles would be available worldwide during the Christmas period this year, retailers have begun putting up release dates for both systems, suggesting something a little more concrete. German website Media Markt has listed the PS4 for a 13th November …

Jimmy Fallon has been continuing his Game Week by showing off some game cover art from Imagination Land, which apparently him and Elijah Wood co-developed and co-starred in. Would you believe it? The first one is Milk Glug, a game that sees you slamming down bottles of milk as fast …

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.  …

A large number of the servers used by Megaupload during its operation to store the data of its customers, have been wiped out by Netherlandic firm, Leaseweb, in a move it said, was to help free up space after it received no interest from either Dotcom or authorities to examine …

Remember The War Z? Me neither really, but it was that game that caused controversy earlier this year (and a bit late last year) for releasing without many of its advertised features, being bug filled, banning gamers for playing too much; all of which resulted in the shyster producer of …

While Microsoft might have down an about face on its policies for the upcoming next-gen Xbox One system, the console landscape is now more confused than ever. Yes there's no 24 hour check-in system, yes you can resell, trade and lend your game discs to people, but you still need …

John McAfee was the original founder of McAfee antivirus, but as he points out in the this latest video that was over 15 years ago. Since then he's been doing all kinds of things, but last year he was arrested in Guatemala for entering the country illegally, after fleeing nearby …

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 …

I don't think I have ever seen a worse prelaunch than the Xbox One. Microsoft had set so many restrictive rules in place that gamers didn't know which way to turn. Was this really an easy to use console to enjoy on the sofa with friends in the evenings or …

Apple may be making all the headlines with their upcoming iWatch release but the latest Emopulse Smile model is available now for pre-order. This is no mere smartwatch however, as this product will be an entertainment and gaming hub as well as a social networking and news feed system. This …

We have given away around 100 codes in the last month for various games, have you not won yet? You may want to enter our little competition running on Facebook for the next week or so. Every day we are giving away a code for GRID 2, all you need …

Russia and the USA spent a large part of the 20th century in a stand off of global proportions. Posturing went back and forth, spies and information wars were won and lost but ultimately there was no out and out conflict, most likely because neither party really wanted to go …

Nintendo's CEO, Satoru Iwata, has said that it's Nintendo's fault that the Wii U isn't selling well, mainly because the company didn't market it well enough and that ultimately a lot of the console's audience, is still confused about the relatively new console. This is something we've talked about here …

Chances are you haven't finished playing even half the games that Humble Bundle has put out in recent months, but it's time for another bundle, this time with Android support – get your smartphones ready. It comes complete with Aquaria, Fractal, Organ Trail: Director's Cut, Stealth Bastard Deluxe and Pulse, …

The newly released (and most recently pulled) patch from Sony for its PS3 has been bricking the consoles of many that download it. The patch in question shouldn't be available any more so don't fret, but just in-case, don't download anything that looks like a 4.45 firmware update, just yet. …

If you're one of the few out there that thinks the Xbox One is great, or you're one of the larger group that aren't fans, you have to admit, the ability to share and lend games with your Xbox “family” is a pretty cool feature. Fortunately, it seems Valve did …

Today we are going to take a look at the Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 which directly replaces the Arc Midi case that  we looked at in-depth last year over here.  The Arc range of cases are designed with performance users in mind as they don't focus specifically on noise suppression like …

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. …

While the shuttle project might be dead and it might be a few years yet until a new US based launch vehicle is ready to go, this hasn't stopped NASA recruiting its next generation of astronauts, picking eight individuals who will become trainees at the organisation, hoping to one day …

If you'd hoped to get a message to the colonies for Christmas, your time might be running out, as on 14th July the last telegram service will close, due to it becoming disused in the wake of increased mobile phone usage across the world. The last service and its 75 …

While the Oculus Rift headset might have been initially funded by Kickstarter, this doesn't mean that it's funding is done with. The virtual reality peripheral has now garnered a further $16 million from investment firms, bringing aboard new executives to the Oculus Rift board of directors. The $16 (£10) million …

Danish developer, IO Interactive, has announced that nearly half of its staff have been let go, in a move that is designed to restructure the company to make it more streamlined, in order to continue development on further Hitman games. Everything but projects related to Hitman have now been cancelled. …