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Samsung Galaxy S5 launches: 16MP camera, 5.1″ full HD display, heart rate monitor

Meet the Galaxy S5, a mild upgrade destined for a million and one pockets and handbags. It’s the “new” new life companion, and it’s…

Sony SmartWatch 2 review: it’s not bad

The best compliment I can give Sony’s SmartWatch 2 is that it works. I still believe that wearable devices are in their infancy, and…

8 phones with astonishingly good battery life

Size matters. Or at least that is how it seems with the excess of massive mobile phones hitting the market in recent times. These…

11 affordable ‘WhatsApp phones’

Facebook did it. It brought messaging app WhatsApp for US$19-billion. Doesn’t it know that it costs US$1 on iTunes? But I digress. For those…

11 gadget lifehacks you can’t do without

Love gadgets, but hate it when complications arise? So do I, so does everyone. But that’s what this article is for, to help you…

6 genre-defining titles from Irrational Games

Earlier this week, Irrational Games head Ken Levine posted an open letter on his site, saying that he’s winding down his company to concentrate on…

Motorola Moto G review: high on performance, low on price

When Puneet Soni (VP, Product Management at Motorola Mobility) revealed the Moto G to a bunch of geeky reporters, he constantly asserted that flagship…

Black Mesa: Half-Life reborn

Gabe Newell must be smiling. He is a man who has always placed community before commerce. Having made his millions at Microsoft he left…

Sony Xperia U: a tiny kaleidoscope with personality

Are you the type of person who walks down the street, head down, sliding your nondescript phone out of your pocket as you go,…

SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive: a great impulse-buy

Right off the bat, SandDisk’s 16Gb Extreme USB 3.0 impressed me. It’s not the stupidly long name that did it, but the build quality…

6 of the best games that no one played

It’s easy to get into a conversation with a gamer regarding Fifa, or Call of Duty, or Halo. If they’re male and under thirty,…

Interview with the dev: The need for custom kernels

This week I am really excited about my interviewee, not only because I really love his work, but I do appreciate his frank approach…

Dropping the ball: It’s a fight for your post iPhone heart

So it was that time of year again where your favorite tech blog goes into overdrive. But I’m not here to try to spin…

Acer Aspire V3: a desktop doozy

cer’s V3 is a well-priced, decent-performing desktop replacement goes against the current trend towards smaller, thinner more mobile laptops. What it sacrifices in portability…

MacBook Pro with Retina Display — there is no equal

Humankind is governed by fear. The fear of the unknown being the most prevalent. It’s this sticky enigma of hope and desire that separates…

Leap — more than a gimmick

We all use a mouse and keyboard in our daily (computing) lives. No matter what kind of application we are accessing the mouse and…

How a hacker used Kinect to help his disabled mom send emails

If we had a series called “Awesome stuff people can do with a Xbox Kinect”, this would be the latest instalment. Also, this guy…

CdTDroid, father of AndroidME, talks custom builds

So in the second of my ‘Interview with the Developer’ series I ask ROM developer CdTDroid, Chris Turner, a couple of questions. A little…

Logitech Tablet Speaker for iPad: not the sound you want

Ugly, aesthetically unsound and turd-shaped, it’s the Logitech Tablet Speaker for iPad or anything really with a headphone jack. Here’s why you shouldn’t spent…

5 of the latest, hottest iPad games

Presenting five of the best, and most recent, games for iPad. All titles are valid for a purchase on the US App store. Bastion…

Windows 8 RTM — love at first sight

Like it or not, Windows 8 is about to take the world by storm. I had the chance to play around with the latest…

Trinity, lord of the Nexus Kernel, speaks out

In the Android world there are a number of developers who help make the user experience even better. They’re the magicians that sit in…

Nexus 7 — the realisation of Google’s dreams

Each fingerprint is a mark of love Google’s Nexus 7 worries me. As an iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook owner, I’ve been snobbish towards genuine…

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