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Fancy something different to drive into work on a daily basis? Is a new BMW not eye catching enough? Then perhaps the new Terracraft might turn enough heads as you trundle through the city. This 3 wheeler vehicle is a hybrid car and motorbike design offering a retractable roof and …

Sky are launching a new £10 box which will bring catch up TV, Sky Sports and Sky Movies to any television set, without long term subscription fees. Sky are saying that the box is ‘smaller than a pub beer mat'. Sky have experienced reasonable success so far with their NowTV …

Megatron would be proud. While mere mortals scratch around trying to make 60/120GB SSD drives last for the lifetime of their system, those armed with 240GB and above have managed to look suitably smug. Until now. KitGuru pulls out the trusty abacus to see exactly how many NAND gates have …

The Australian version of the Wikileaks Political Party site has been hit by a denial of service attack. It's been down for just over 12 of hours and is still very difficult to access at the time of writing. It does appear after a while, but it's not quick. Claiming …

Can't say I blame you either, as that's the platform I want to play it on too. Unfortunately, Rockstar has yet to announce any news of the fifth game in the series appearing on the platform that started its career back with GTA One and two. However, a large number …

Oh Microsoft, will you pick a policy and stick to it please? It's nice of you to keep changing your mind giving me stories to write about, but this is just getting silly now. We might as well not believe any policies you have at this point, because they could …

German police are being very pro-active by testing the latest 3D printed gun threat, by printing their own. Concern was raised when Cody Wilson, founder of the Defence Distributed company made his own plans for a crude 3D printed handgun, available online. Wilson and his team spent more than a …

Yesterday Google announced their new 2nd generation Nexus 7, but they also focused on their Chromecast device, which streams media from Android and iOS phones and tablets. It also supports Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows computers. Chromecast may seem similar to Apple's Airplay, however the Google offering isn't tied into …

Our Facebook personality Carl – the german geek who interacts with thousands of readers daily is being immortalised with his own Comic strip. We plan on updating this cartoon strip fairly regularly, depending on how popular it proves to be. We like to try and educate, entertain and bring something …

Apple's iPad shipments are predicted to drop to less than 12 million units in Q3 this year, from 14.6 million in Q2. The drop is expected because Apple customers will be waiting on the iPad and iPad Mini refresh. Sources from the retail channel are predicting this decline. Apple's iPad …

EE have continued to expand their super fast mobile broadband coverage by adding 4G to another ten UK locations. Businesses and consumers in Altrincham, Bedford, Camberley, Crawley, Farnborough, Farnham, Maidstone, Rochdale, Tonbridge and Welwyn Garden City are now able to hook up their devices with 4G speeds. EE are delivering …

The Leap Motion controller has already been released in America, but it hits UK shores on the 29th July. Amazon UK are taking pre-orders right now, with the price set at £69.99 inc vat. The device is said to support both PC and Mac operating systems. The device allows people …

Every few years a new bit of technology bumps digital graphics to a new level. Where once HDR lighting was the new darling on the scene, bloom became the next big thing and tessellation on from that. This year, it's been all about the facial rendering techniques, specifically deep tissue …

The Oculus Rift is an amazing invention and is perhaps the first real step we've taken on the road to true virtual reality. However, as it stands, there isn't that much in the way of games to make use of the soon-to-be-released technology, but not for much longer. The developers …

Microsoft has just updated the prices on its official online store, putting to bed some of the £99.99 place-holder prices we've seen dotted around. Now the new – and presumably final – pricing for some of the console's first party games, including Ryse, Dead Rising 3 and Forza 5, are …

Adding to its already supported O2, Three and Vodafone networks, AeroMobile, the company that allows people to send texts, browse the internet and make calls while at 30,000ft, is now offering its services to Everything Everywhere customers too. It isn't every plane though, so don't just start whipping your phone …

Despite a seemingly general feeling of distaste for EA's Origin service in the gaming community, with the fact that it's not just part of Steam and requires its own login, the security issues and of course the connectivity problems seen in titles like Sim City, EA has just announced in …

Unfortunately Knightmare fans, it's only for one show, in a one off special as part of the Geek Week festival on Youtube between the 4th and 10th of August. It'll be part of Global Geekery Monday, and featuring the original presenter himself, Hugo Myatt. Series creator Tim Child will be …

Nvidia have announced their last flagship graphics card, the Kepler based Quadro K6000. The company say it is ‘the fastest and most capable GPU ever built'. The new video card has double the graphics capability of the Quadro 6000 and it has 12GB of fast GDDR5 memory on board. Nvidia …

If you are bored then you could spend that time strapping a jet engine to various devices, just to see how fast they can go. Some people are always trying to get into the Guinness Record books. Matt McKeown, 52, from Plymouth in the UK strapped a jet propelled engine …

Corgi International have teamed up with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies to create the new i-H2GO remote controlled car, with a difference. The new car ships with a photovoltaic panel and a refuelling station. Ordinary water is poured into the station and the panel supplies the power to electrolyze the water, …

News has filtered out from BrightSideOfNews that Doug Stoakley, Nvidia's Senior Director of Worldwide Sales for Tegra and Mobile is leaving Nvidia, landing a new job in AMD. Our sources today have confirmed that the move is real and he is starting the job very soon. Stoakley will be heading …

A few chinks in the seemingly impenetrable Apple armor appear to be showing, as sales are slowing down. Their profit has dropped by almost $2 billion (£1.3 billion) after year on year sales of iPads and Macs declined. Apple sold 14.6 million iPads during the quarter, down from 17 million …

While the world and his dog went up in arms about Microsoft's DRM and online activation policies with the Xbox One, not quite so many were worried about the bundled Kinect sensor being always on – you even had a few people say that old classic line, “if you've got …

The prize pool for the third annual DotA 2 International tournament is still on the rise thanks to community efforts that see fan purchases simply adding to the collection. To date it's reached over $2.6 (£1.7) million, making it the largest cash prize pool of any single esports event in …

The official Ubuntu forums have been down for a few days now, with the homepage simply showing a notice that they've been deliberately taken down to deal with a security issue. But worse than that, passwords, usernames and  email addresses have all been stolen. “There has been a security breach …

Final Fantasy VII is perhaps the most beloved and certainly the highest selling title, from the Final Fantasy series of games. As well as the original game, there was the spin off Crisis Core and the CGI movie sequel, Advent Children, but now there looks set to be a live-action …

The Bitcasa service is gunning for Dropbox. They are offering an unlimited ‘virtual storage' option across all your computers and devices. The service works like a hard drive except the storage capacity is ‘unlimited'. The company say the service appears like a normal hard drive icon and media can be …

We read about the horror stories of ‘in game' charges on a fairly regular basis and the latest hit the web this weekend – a 43 year old father was facing a £4,000 charge after his daughter racked up a series of fees. His eight year old daughter purchased from …

We reported yesterday that the Apple developer website was hacked, with information on 275,000 registered third party developers potentially compromised. The portal at developer.apple.com had been offline since last Thursday without an explanation raising concerns among the user base. The latest news to hit is that Ibrahim Balic, a Turkish …