Geeky Gizmos

6 smartwatches you should know about before you buy the Galaxy Gear

By now most of you will hopefully have heard about the flood of smartwatches hitting the market. You may have heard rumours of the…

10 gadgets we’d give our favourite TV characters

They’re interesting, exciting and you’d give anything to hang out with them. Pity none of them exist. TV is a writer’s medium, where characters…

Samsung’s Android smartwatch, Galaxy Gear coming 4 September: report

Samsung will launch its first smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, on 4 September at this year’s IFA in Berlin, Germany says Korea Times. This effectively…

Leap Motion review: 3D motion-controlled fun

Let’s get this out of the way quickly: Leap Motion, the 3D motion-based controller, isn’t going to replace the mouse right now. It’s a…

Logitech K820 wireless keyboard is a slick-looking touch and type gizmo

Logitech likes creating high-end looking devices for people like us who want to scrimp and save every penny. Today, it’s announced the K820, a…

Koush does Chromecasts… the right way

When Google announced Chromecast, the first thing I read about online was “how few services are supported”, but once again, the custom community is…

Pebble ePaper smartwatch finally gets email notifications for iOS

Pebble, the Kickstarter funded ePaper smartwatch, today gets email alert notification support for iOS devices. 9to5mac reports that the email notification update was planned…

Magic Finger turns your finger into a mouse

Autodesk Research, in collaboration with the University of Alberta and University of Toronto, has developed a prototype for its user-controlled “always-available input“, the Magic…

Hack A Day creates replica Portal Gun to levitate objects, kinda’

The mad scientists at Hack A Day (HAD) have gone one up on the replica P-body Portal gun from popular puzzle-solving, platform title, Portal…

New Microsoft motion-tracking venture project ‘Digit’ is all about the wrist

Kinect, it fills our stomachs with bile. Here was potentially the greatest controller to ever hit consoles, but was and is sorely underutilised. Is…

7 of the best knock-off gadgets China has to offer

With the recent release of the iPhone 5, users found themselves trawling the internet for any leaked tit-bits that would give a sneak peek…

Delta Six is the greatest and worst controller for shooters ever made

There’s a fine line when it comes to console geekery, and the Delta Six controller, a gamepad shaped like a rifle crosses that line,…

Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive: a great impulse-buy

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

Cassette To iPhone Converter is the worst/best gadget you’ll ever own

We found this, and needed a moment to reflect. A cassette to iPod convertor is either the greatest gadget on this green earth, or…

Kickstarter gear of the week: iControlPad 2, a fully open source game controller for pretty much anything

This: Yes, this is the next controller for your, well any device really. Its the iControlPad 2 and it wants to massage your gaming…

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…

ThinkGeek’s Power-up offers a 90s arcade light switch

Normal light switches are so 2010. We’ve moved on from all those plain white up or down switches. Take this: the Power-up Arcade light…

The life wireless — are we ready to cut the cord?

I hate wires. For every piece of technology I own, there seems to be at least three cables that come along with it. A…

Kickstarter-funded mPrinter is a pocket-friendly thermal printing dream machine

This is hot. Printing has most definitively fallen out of favour among the geek crowd. Paper, ink, bulky machines, screw that noise. If it’s…

iDrifta mobile decoder — new look, same tricks

Here’s what I love about technology. Sometimes it’s just too smart for its own damn good. Case in point, the DStv iDrifta. It’s a…

Kickstart this: Oculus Rift, the first VR headset that works

The eighties and nineties birthed virtual reality, but ever since Lawnmower Man, the VR scene’s been a mite quiet. Oculus Rift, the ‘first truly…

The worst idea of all time are these $1000 headphones for cats

Deadmau5’s cat, Professor Meowingtons pHD would say yes. Frankly, the story hurts our sensitive gadget-loving souls, but cat’s need love too, even though they…

Apple AirPort Express makes WiFi networks easy

Sneaking out at WWDC, the junior member of Apple’s AirPort range saw some significant and much-needed improvements. Indeed, it’s now a much tougher choice…

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