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After the huge success of Angry Birds and all the other iPad-o-sphere games that followed, it looks like the next generation of man-machine interface is going to be a lot more mature. Intel and Eugen Systems have collaborated together to introduce the next revolution in Surface gaming. KitGuru was on …

Despite Microsoft pushing through a touch platform for the PC more than a decade ago, it took Apple's iPad for anyone to notice. The increase in touch based systems, automatically leads to an increase in cool/new touch apps. Eugene and Intel were on hand today to show off just what …

A man in South Korea has been taken to hospital with second degree burns, after his Samsung Note battery exploded. KitGuru fires up a Napster playlist that includes Donna Summer's ‘Hot Stuff' and takes a closer look at the phenomenon of overheating and exploding items in the trouser region. Anyone …

One of the most powerful additions to the arsenal of a formula one team is the ability to  come up with a novel solution to an engineering problem and then print it out. But what if you could do the same with human organs? KitGuru ponders the possibility of low …

You will have read a lot of coverage on Biostar's latest Hi-Fi technology for mainboards on KitGuru recently – well now here's your chance to win one of THREE Biostar HiFi A85W boards in our exclusive competition! No ordinary mainboard, the Biostar HiFi A85W has the ability to help create …

We all know Arctic from their cooling products, but as KitGuru discovered a couple of years back, the company has big plans to expand into new markets – and the launch of its brand new, media centre platform is part of that plan. KitGuru checks out the quality on offer …

At KitGuru, our love of a bargain is matched only by our love of alliteration. When we saw the ‘A' rated deal from AData on portable drives, we could not resist. Either. So what's on offer and for how much?  KitGuru checks out the latest in desirable drive deals. While …

What started as a solid plastic item being passed to Captain Kirk around 1966, evolved into a real product by 1992. Today, just about 20 years on, the future is dead and another ‘amazing technology' gets consigned to the trashpile of history. KitGuru casts an eye back over yet another …

You might not recognise the name, but Stephen Bates is the ‘laughing fool' whose business card says Managing Director for Europe at Blackberry – the besieged smartphone maker. We missed his live interview on the BBC first time round, but a great blog by Willard Foxton at The Telegraph drew …

In response to a very poor showing around the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft has decided that it must squeeze whatever pennies are available from the few sales that are left in the desktop version of its tablet operating system. Expect big price rises for an operating system you have …

In terms of launches, audio is generally the poor cousin of the CPU and GPU. While publications across the globe go ape for the latest and greatest in terms of piped lines, cor-inducing cores and giggly hurts – the audio processor tends to stay in the shade. Not today. This …

If KitGuru told you that we'd been interviewed by a model, then we know the way your collective minds work. If we then said that the model in question had competed in the last series of UK's Top Model, you'd start to think that we're taking advantage of all life …

Around twice a year, some group will call for an end to computer games on the basis that they cause violence and the industry rallies to deny the claim. Today's the day. KitGuru plays Angry Pigs at full volume to build up a bit of latent aggression. You know. Just …

When wireless first began to take off, KitGuru was sure that it would not be long before hard drives became wireless – at least on a local area connection. Products like the Patriot Gauntlet Node fulfil part of the promise of the future, because they enable a range of wireless …

If you have an nVidia graphics card, love the idea of PhysX and were wondering when it might be possible to download a cool game, free of charge, that utilises all of the latest programming tricks available – then your wait is over. Hawken is ready to download and costs …

The future is embedded – or so we're being told. From AMD to Intel, the word on the street is that everything should have some kind of computer in it – and all of them should be connected. If the entire globe is part of the ‘computing continuum', then – …

It is now a matter of public record that nVidia VP Bob Feldstein and 3 others have been named by AMD in an action filed in Massachusetts. But KitGuru wonders who will be paying the legal expenses? People change jobs. There's no way we will ever go back to the …

In a touching bookend to the life of Steve Jobs, Apple is finalising its announcement for the launch of the iPad 5 in March with stock in stores to coincide with the release of the Ashton Kutcher pic ‘jOBS' at Easter. Any jokes regarding the rebirth of our saviour probably …

For anyone with an iPad and Sky, last night was really fun. Sky's programming team forced through an update, which didn't work, and services across the land were severely disrupted. One reader send us an interesting screen grab and we'd like to share the contents with you. Sky Go runs …

Most of the time, technology manufacturers keep the underlying cost of a product ‘masked' from us, the consumers. When a component suffers a temporary increase in cost, that amount is swallowed and the price on the shelf remains the same.When the price drops, the manufacturers also hang onto the difference …

At KitGuru, we're always playing the ‘old geezer' card, using our grey hair and pot-bellies to bring back factoids from yesteryear. That means we can remember a time when current Asus board-level executives were driving up and down the UK countryside – working hard to generate any mainboard orders they …

In recent times, the Batmobile has been overhauled again and again – until it has turned into a self-aware, 21st century death-dealer, capable of balancing the odds in any armed conflict. But that's not where it started. Now the actual, original Batmobile has been sold for almost £3 million. KitGuru …

When H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds in 1898, he helped the world envision a future where enemies would cut Earth's forces apart with powerful heat-rays. Now Germany’s Rheinmetall Defense has successfully tested something very real and very effective. KitGuru balances its wonder of all things science fiction …

We don't often review the gimmicky stuff here at KitGuru. To be honest, we really use up far too much time on in-depth, world-class reviews of the hardcore kit you spend most of your free money on. But every now and then, something lands in the KitGuru Labs that can't …

The folks over at Func are very pleased with themselves. Originally founded in 1999 by a group of gamers, Func is one of the oldest gaming brands on the market and today sees the launch of its MS-3 professional quality gaming mouse. . KitGuru gives the product a scan to …

It's hard to know why a young chap who grew up near the German border with Holland would end up speaking Mandarin Chinese and running European sales for a major motherboard manufacturer, but that's exactly what Martin Thyssen has ended up doing. KitGuru was fortunate enough to catch up with …

If there was going to be a fatal car crash – with a 4 door saloon plunging over a cliff and exploding into a million pieces – wouldn't it be cool if the driver wasn't you, but you got to claim on the insurance anyway? Outsourcing stuff can be fun, …

Created by the University of Manchester in 2004, this Graphene substance has huge potential – but it seems that its country of birth might not have that large a role in its future development. KitGuru checked on how long the British government takes to make decisions – and what cost …

KitGuru is nothing is not extrapolatory. We love looking back and predicting the future. When it comes to SSD, there is a sea change coming – so we've pulled out the trusty sextant and peered into the foggy future to see what Spring 2014 might look like. Right now, the …

At CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Antec was on hand to launch the brand new GX700 chassis. KitGuru has done some investigation into the UK and European launch pricing. Seems attractive, so what are you getting for your money? There was a time when Antec chassis ruled the world (of …