General Tech

Anyone who's seen Fritz Lang's Metropolis will recognise the HUGE statues guarding the entrance to Cyberdog in London's Camden market. Inside, you have a store that stretches across 3 floors, with a total shopping space that must be close to a football pitch. Alongside the pounding house, you'll find a …

No, it has nothing to do with Arnie and the search for John Conner. Back in the day, T1 lines were the stuff of legend, with so much bandwidth that you'd be running an enterprise and a half on the throughput. But how does it stack up today? KitGuru downloads …

Capturing game play is becoming ever more popular with thousands of videos being uploaded to Youtube on a daily basis. The AVerMedia Game Capture HD is a device that can be connected to either a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360 and can record your gameplay without the need for a …

IBM have published their annual list of innovations and they claim that computers will gain human like abilities to receive input through senses such as smell, touch and taste. IBM are calling the development the ‘era of cognitive systems' and claim that it will herald a completely new way for …

The Fortune 500 list of companies requires you to be turning over more than $12 Billion to even be considered for inclusion. To give you a sense of scale, the biggest component company in our industry is Asus – and they only JUST satisfy that criteria. So what can an …

A member of the XDA developers forum named ‘alephzain' has claimed that there is a flaw in several Samsung handset and tablets which could allow attackers to access the RAM. The Register ran the story a short while ago. Alephzain posted the information here claiming that “The security hole is …

We all use cooling fans, in our laptop's, desktop computers and even in some peripherals. This constant battle against heat has made the reliance on fan technology ever more prominent. This could change in the future however. Researchers at GE have created a super thin cooling device which they claim …

Watching ‘The Social Network', you can see just how much Facebook's founders value ‘up time'. They are almost maniac about it. In the real world, the globe's second biggest site does a great job of staying up and running, but something strange seems to have hit the interwibble this evening. …

For the last couple of weeks, I have been getting many calls from friends and family members about their computers giving problems. This is nothing unusual, but I have been noticing a plethora of security issues on the computers I have been fixing. One of the computers I have to …

IBM have been working on new optical communications advances. They are due to outline today how this is possible with a standard 90 nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process. ZDnet posted an article on this today which makes for interesting reading. IBM have called the technology ‘silicon nanophotonics' which they outlined in …

While IDC and Gartner battle it out to produce the best overall estimates of the market in terms of how many units will ship into the various markets, other analysts focus on a specific set of components within those systems – and use that as a way to predict overall …

Should artists be paid for their work? If so, how much? Should it be, at any stage, OK for people with little/no money to enjoy the artist's work without paying? Should IP be policed harder or is sharing the fault of middle-man companies that want to charge too much. These …

On the very loose basis that eBay uses technology, we wanted to bring you an interesting story from the interweb about just how much a 1960 Original Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar is being offered for on the world's top electronic auction site. It's a little bit more than it …

On 21st and 22nd November this year, a panel of expert design judges got together in Hannover to decide which companies had mad their best efforts count in the world of design. This morning , as the winners are announced, Thermaltake's Google-esque HQ in Taipei will be rocking  as its …

I posted earlier this week about the increasing dominance of technology in our lives. I think we all struggle when we don't have our phones, or tablets, or laptops handy. I was in a restaurant earlier this week for dinner with a couple of friends, and I noticed around me …

A case has moved to the High Court which could impact how social networking sites deal with information sharing in the future. Facebook Ireland Limited finds itself at the centre of a mini-storm that could have far reaching consequences. KitGuru takes a high altitude balloon to see how the front …

While our technologically minded cousins across the pond might have their Dr Pepper, their Mountain Dew and their “caw-fee,” our little island nation is more content to sip contentedly on a cup of fine chai. However, while coffee brewing has become heavily mechanised in the past couple of decades, with …

A jacket with built in headphones, speakers and control system that allows wearers to skip, pause, play music as well as answer and hang up calls has been launched at Debenhams today (18 November 2012), just in time for Christmas. The coat – a world first –  is designed by …

10 days ago the new ‘Reality Deck officially opened at New York's Stony Brook University. The creator of the concept has described it as ‘The closest thing in the world to Star Trek's holodeck'. The four walls are covered in 416 high resolution screens that deliver 1.5 billion pixels. SBU …

If you ever wondered why super oblong screens weren't more commonplace, then LG might just have the answer. The company are launching their new 21:9 aspect monitor in Korea this week. This is the first in their attack on the ‘ultra widescreen invasion'. This will be the world's first 21:9 …

A high percentage of tech savvy users do most of their shopping online now, however buying clothes online has proven difficult. New tech aims to resolve this problem. Research conducted by the London College of Fashion and the University of Surrey, with help from specialists is set to resolve the …

A team called Puzzlebox are releasing a stunning looking gadget which they hope will teach children about neuroscience, open source coding and focus. Their helicopter toy is controlled by brainwaves. Puzzlebox have been creating code to turn EEG signals into instructions that a robot can understand. In the last 24 …

In America, local police departments are informing the public about the new FBI Child ID Application which can be downloaded for free from the Android Apps section of Google Play or through iTunes. The software will let parents store pictures and vital information about their children in case they go …

Toyota have said they will recall 2.77 million cars worldwide, after they have detected faults in the steering and water pump systems in some of their petrol and hybrid models. A total of 14 models are affected by the problem, including the Corolla compact sedan and the Prius Hybrid. The …

Samsung are going to be showcasing an amazing 85 inch ultra high definition television at CES in January. This set boasts a resolution of 8 million pixels. Samsung are claiming that this television is “the world's largest commercialized UHD LED TV”. The company have not released any pricing information yet, …

Nikon have announced the release of their new D5200 SLR, a 24.1 megapixel compact body SLR. The camera will be available in three colours … black, bronze and red. The camera is also said to have 39 point auto focus. The body price will be around 900 euros when it …

Did you buy a high powered Core i7 computer this year? If you are feeling smug, then be prepared for a reality check, because the Titan SuperComputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has recently received an upgrade. This is the world's most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical …

Are you planning on upgrading your television to a new high definition model before the end of the year. Well the latest LG 84 inch 4k television might just tick all the right boxes …. well apart from the price that is. They have released their first 4k TV in …

The Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition records high definition video from either a Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360 onto a Windows laptop or desktop PC.

The world divides a lot of different ways, male and female, young and old – but one of the most basic and long lasting divisions that's not related to genetics, must be ‘worker' and 'employer'. Boosting the technology industry means increasing sales, which means increasing employment. The Coalition seems to …