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Petzl the maker of head torches and other camping accessories has unveiled a new product addition to their range, in the form of the Petzl Nao head torch. Which has been designed to adjust its beam depending on where you are looking. Whether you are looking straight ahead or looking down to read a map [...]

According to Global Equities Research, the company which monitors Apple’s iBook sales via a proprietary tracking system, has today revealed that Apple’s new textbook service has already passed 350,000 downloads, just 3 days after being launched. Together with around 90,000 downloads of Apple’s iBooks Author, its free textbook creation tool, during the same time period. [...]

The Product design studio based in Berlin has created a very unique sound system using optical sensors rather than the tradition needle. The optical turntables were created for the premiere of Volkswagen’s new Beetle at the 2011 IAA motor show. Rather than using vinyl disks like a traditional record player the new optical turntables uses [...]

Back in 2009 the Star Wars Uncut project was started to try and produce a fan made version of the classic Star Wars movie. Star Wars Uncut was started by Casey Pugh, who divided the Star Wars movie into 472 15-second segments and then asked Star Wars fans to help fill the sequences with their [...]

Over the weekend its been revealed that Google has now rolled out automatic sign-up to its new Google+ social network, via any new Google accounts that are created. The newly designed signup form which has been rolled out by Google, brings with it a number of new fields to the once simple signup and account creation [...]

Anyone looking for a James Bond style way to create a mobile hotspot might be interested in these funky WiFi cufflinks that enable you to create a WiFi hotspot by plugging them into a computer USB port. The cufflinks also fitted with flash drives and allow you to store up to a maximum of 2GB [...]

Adafruit the open source hardware manufacturer has this week unveiled a new product to its line of products in the form of the Adafruit Flora a new wearable electronics platform. The Adafruit Flora modules have been designed to provide an easy way to add Bluetooth, GPS, 3-axis accelerometer, compass module, flex sensor, piezo, IR LED, [...]

Korg has this week launched a range of new Kaoss devices which take the form of the new mini Kaoss Pad 2 effects unit, and the Kaossilator 2 synthesiser unit. Both are equipped with an X-Y pad and the mini Kaoss Pad 2 has been built to create effects, packing 100 programs, three memory slots, [...]

A new gesture based multi-touch eBook concept designed by the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has been demonstrated on Apple’s iPad. Showing us a glimpse of what we can expect to see in the near future when reading eBooks on tablet devices. The new system has been designed to provide a more natural way [...]

Alesis has created a new range of products which it has unveiled this week, that have been specifically designed to work with Apple’s iPad tablet. The new range consists of the Alesis AmpDock and DM Dock, which enable you to either transform your iPad into an electronic drum system or amplifier. The new Alesis DM [...]

It has been unveiled this week by industry sources that Acer, Asus and Lenovo could be adding Thunderbolt collectivity to their Ivy Bridge-based ultrabook ranges, which are expected to launch sometime in the second quarter of this year. The addition of the new Thunderbolt connectivity on ultrabooks will however come at a price as the [...]

Gamers who were hoping to get their hands on Diablo III this quarter, will be disappointed to hear that Blizzard has now announced that the game will be delayed further, and a first-quarter release is now looking out of the question. Within the announcement Blizzard suggests that there is still a lot of work to [...]