In the unfortunate circumstance of a fire or some unprecedented disaster in the kitchen, the FireText alerts several users via SMS. Distressing, but at least it affords the recipient time to mitigate the disaster. It’s better than coming home to a house in ashes. Anyway, the FireText is a rugged smoke alarm powered by a [...]

If you live in Japan and have your eye on a new Android smartphone, you might want to check out the Aquos Phone SH-01D from Sharp. This is a cool smartphone that comes in three colors including a bright blue. It runs Android 2.3 as the operating system.

It looks like Samsung may be putting an end to its range of various netbooks, and instead concentrating its efforts on Intel’s new Ultrabook platform, as details of an email that Samsung has sent ot its trading partners has been revealed. The email, which you can see below mentions that Samsung will discontinue their 10.1 [...]

Roland have this week added a new sampling pad to their range in the form of the new Roland SPD-SX, which has been created as a replacement for the existing SPD-S. The Roland SPD-SX is equipped with 2 GB of onboard sampling memory, together with three effects engines, with inputs for stereo mic/line input, USB [...]

We had expected the SIM free version of the Nokia Lumia 800 to be available from a number of retailers here in the UK at launch, unfortunately some retailers were told that the device would only be available through certain mobile carriers at launch. Now it looks like we wont have to wait very much [...]

Nextage is a humanoid robot which has been developed by Kawada Industries, and it is a robot which is designed to work alongside people in factories and working environments, and it can be programmed to perform a range of tasks. The robot can work in a space that is designed to be used by a [...]

If you are looking for a new stylish timepiece, which doesn’t cost a small fortune, then you may want to check out these cool looking Autodromo watches, which feature designs inspired by classic 1960′s and 1970′s Italian racing cars. There are a three different designs to choose from, and they were deigned by industrial designer [...]

Benq has unveiled and very neat and portable projector its created, in the form of the BenQ Joybee GP2. Which has been designed to be used with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, but can also be used with USB flash drives or SD Cards if required.

QPAD has just announced the addition of a new mechanical gaming keyboard to their range, with the unveiling of their new QPAD MK-Series Mechanical keyboards. The QPAD MK-85 is the world’s first mechanical keyboard offering full N-key roll over via USB. The N-Key roll over feature makes sure that each key press is scanned completely [...]

Fujifilm has announced the launch of the Fujifilm X-S1, which the company describes as a new breed of bridge camera, and it features a Fuji non 26x optical zoom lens, plus digital zoom of up to 52x with a 35mm equivalent range of 24-1248mm. The Fujifilm X-S1 features the same 2/3-inch 12 megapixel EXR CMOS [...]

Have you ever fancied building your very own twin lens camera? Well, if you have, or you just find the price of the modern DSLR cameras a little steep for your pocket. A new kit has been created for $20 that will provide you with everything you need to build your very own retro 35mm [...]

This week Google has added a number of high profile file sharing sites to its blacklists, and removed them from its google.com search pages. The additions to Google blacklist which include, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and 4Shared to name a few. Have now been removed from Google’s Auto complete and Instant searches. However the actual pages [...]