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Android-based tablets from Archos announced

Media tablets from Archos that are powered by Google's Android operating system are in the works. The Home Tablets will come complete with touch screen displays and plenty of on-board storage for a modest price to suit a mainstream audience. The Archos 7 will have a 7 inch screen and a ...

Skype support added to Samsung LED TVs

Electronics manufacturer Samsung has just brought the latest in LED TV technology to the South Korean market, with its new range of home entertainment displays offering built-in support for VoIP calling service Skype. It was at CES 2010 that Samsung first unveiled its plans for Skype integration, but performance during demonstrations ...

MSI promises compact 3D computing solution

Taking the singular design solution of the iMac and then adding in powerful graphics and a modern interface, component manufacturer MSI is planning to bring an all-in-one 3D-ready PC to the market in the near future. The firm has recently announced that it will be using 24 inch screens which have ...

Tabbed plug adaptors in the pipeline

If you have plethora of cables snaking down from the back of your TV cabinet or computer desk, all leading to a single multi-socket adaptor, it can often be difficult to tell which electrical device is being powered by which plug. As such you can often root around before eventually finding ...

Avatar 3D planned for November 2010 Blu-Ray launch

James Cameron has confirmed that his hugely profitable 3D flick Avatar will be coming to home cinema users with all three dimensions intact, but you will have to wait until November this year until it finally arrives. Some had hoped that Avatar would be one of the first movies to arrive ...

Wall-crawling technology invented

A team of researchers from Cornell University in the USA have come up with some very clever gloves which allow the wearer to traverse vertical surfaces in Spider Man fashion. However, it is not a spider that is the inspiration behind the technology, but rather a Palmetto tortoise beetle, which can ...

Concept cooker makes pans obsolete

A brand new cooker designed by manufacturer Electrolux has been showcased in a concept video, with the device having the ability to make frying pans and woks a thing of the past. Electrolux says that it will not be turning its Heart of the Home gadget into a reality quite yet. ...

US University students invent spokeless bicycle

A group of mechanical engineering students at Yale have come up with a bike that has a spokeless design, leaving a disturbing gap in the middle of the back wheel that looks suitably futuristic. The students had to use existing technology and good old fashioned mechanical knowhow to create the bike ...

Gadget unleashes mobile broadband

The Wi-Reach Classic from Connect One is a clever little gadget that has just arrived to help spread the mobile broadband connections that many people use to more than one person via battery-powered Wi-Fi. Originally most people would pick up mobile broadband via a single USB dongle that meant only one ...

Windows Phone 7 Series unveiled

The Mobile World Conference 2010 (MWC) is getting underway in Barcelona this week, but media attention has also focused on the latest announcement from Microsoft pertaining to the arrival of its brand new mobile operating system. Windows Mobile 6.5 is to be put out to pasture at some point in 2010, ...