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Win a Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
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PlayStation gets $50 pre-Xmas price cut
Sony is slashing the price of its PlayStation 3 game console across North America, Europe and in Japan, the company said today, as it…
Sci-fi electronic tattoo for games, spies and afflicted
A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according…
Gaming comes to Google+
Google has added games, including the hugely popular Angry Birds, to the fast-growing social network vying with Facebook to be the hub for people’s…
Video Review: Olympus XZ-1
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HTC wants a piece of Beats by Dr Dre
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HP slashes TouchPad prices
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Sony, Panasonic, Samsung to make universal 3D glasses
Japan’s Sony and Panasonic and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics have announced that they will jointly develop new standards for glasses used to watch 3D…
Write, heat, write again with rewritable ‘paper’
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Bouncing, rolling drone takes flight
A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and…
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