How? By having a sonar device detect whether a user is in front of the PC station. When the user/person leaves, the station logs off automatically, leaving no room for compromise.

Xstreamer has today announced that its new media player the Xtreamer Ultra HTPC the Ion 2 based PC will be priced at $100 when it starts shipping in juts over 7 days and will be showcased at CeBit 2011. The new Xtreamer Ultra HTPC will be available to ordered with a dual-core Atom D525, Ion 2, [...]

IBM’s Supercomputer, Watson has won Jeopardy for the second time, this time Watson was up against two former Jeopardy champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson was won a prize of $1 million, obviously being a computer he doesnt have much use for the $1 million so the prize will be donated to charity.

We have featured a few different multi-touch devices and surfaces here on Geeky Gadgets in the past but the new Touchscape Multi-Touch coffee table looks like fantastic fun. The Touchscape table is fitted with a 47-inch LCD high viewing angle screen with a 1920 x 1080 full HD pixel resolution and powered by quad core processor. [...]

Buffalo has launched a new portable hard drive, the Buffalo MiniStation, which is designed to be stuck on the back of your HDTV and can be used to record TV programmes (on supported TVs). It comes in the form of a 500GB HDD and a bracket that can be put on the back of you [...]

Shuttle has updated its XPC range of mini PCs, the new versions the XPC Barebone SH67H3 and SH67H7 are compatible with Intel Core i4, i5 and i7 processors. Both models come with two 3.5 inch drive bays and one 5.25 inch bay, there is also four USB 2.0 ports and three USB 3.0 ports, plus [...]

Kingston has today taken the wraps off it new line of secure USB drives the DT4000 which is equipped with military-grade encryption. The new range include the DataTraveler 4000 and DataTraveler Vault : Privacy Managed, will help many businesses where Managed secure USB drives are a necessity. DT4000 is enclosed in a steel case and has been designed [...]

It thought that when AMD releases it new processors code-named Llano and Zambezi microprocessors later this year. AMD will not introduce any new brand-names for them, but divide then into different classes of its Vision platforms, says X-bit labs who have seen a document referencing the changes. If AMD does drop the names it might take [...]

Intel has unveiled it new hexacore flagship processor the Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition, equipped with six 3.46GHz cores and 12 processing threads. The new Intel Core i7-990X is also equipped with Intel’s Turbo Boost technology allowing it to be overclocked 3.73GHz or more and its unlocked multipliers make overclocking even easier.

Johnny Chung Lee, the famous Wiimote hacker, has now combined a netbook with an iRobot educational mobile robot platform kit for his next project to create a low cost telepresence robot. The netbook sits above the iRobot and can be controlled via a secondary netbook and Skype has been used together with a drive command software written by Johnny. Watch the video [...]

Photofast has juts unveiled it latest high speed USB 3.0 card reader the CR-8600 thats been designed to accept a huge range of memory cards into its 5 card slots and supports: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS. The CR-8600 card reader offers a Seqeuntial speed read of 84.01MB/s on SDXC UHS-I card [...]

If you have an ExpressCard slot on your laptop thats unused Runcore have just unveiled  new device that may be able to bring a little live back to it. RunCore’s latest hybrid ExpressCard/34 adds two USB 3.0 ports and provides 64GB SSD in a single package transforming your unused card slot into a useful device [...]