Haier Continues the IFA Magic, Shows Off Transparent and 3D Tech
Haier has quite the interesting take on technology, and surprised us at CES with their brain-controlled TV’s and lots and lots of transparent things. This year the company is bringing their innovative...
View ArticleBe the Laziest “Chef” Ever With Jamie Oliver’s New Philips Home Cook
Philips has made the lazy-man’s dream come true with a gadget that does all the cooking for you. From slicing, to boiling, braising, steaming or frying, the Home Cook will apparently do it all,...
View ArticleArchos GamePad For Android Gamers Tired Of Touchscreens
We were less than impressed with Archos’ last attempt to provide Android users with a hardware alternative to a touchscreen UI. Its Gen10 XS tablet packed a nifty keyboard/cover combo, but everything...
View ArticleGet Your DJ Kicks On With Denon’s New MC2000 DJ Controller
Bedroom DJ’s, embarrassing dads or those looking into getting into a bit of mixing and scratching can try flexing their hands with Denon’s new MC2000 DJ controller that looks the part and won’t...
View ArticlePhilips Gives You a QWERTY Keyboard On Your Remote For Your Smart TV-Using...
Despite rumours of the death of Philips’ TV business, the 5-month old TP Vision is keen to show us that Philips TVs are alive and kicking with two new, good-looking smart TVs. Because, apparently,...
View ArticleEX3D Show Off Stylish 3D Gaming Glasses That Also Rock Out With Black Ops II
Most 3D glasses nowadays either make you look like a hipster or a mental patient. But one of EX3D’s latest announcements at IFA look like an entirely different breed, in fact they look very similar to...
View ArticleNab 50GB of Dropbox Storage With a New Samsung Galaxy Note II or Galaxy Camera
Those who like their storage tinged with a bit of cloud will be glad to hear that on purchase of one of Samsung’s shiny new Galaxy devices, you’ll be able to chuck up to 50GB of all kinds of files...
View ArticleDell’s XPS 10 Tablet Is What a Laptop/Tablet Hybrid Is Supposed to Look Like
There are a lot of hybrid tablets being shown off at IFA and coming out this autumn. But while the ones we’ve seen seem to be splitting the difference, Dell seems to be focusing on the best parts of...
View ArticleAcer’s Got an Awesome-Looking New 11-inch Touchscreen Ultrabook
While everyone’s spewing out Windows 8 hybrids all over the place, Acer has an 11-inch ultrabook that looks pretty exciting. The Aspire S7, the apparent semi-successor to the Aspire S5, has an 11-inch...
View ArticleHaier’s Eye-Controlled Display Could Be the Future of Super-Lazy TV Watching
Why spend the effort messing around using a Wiimote-like remote, or even shouting at the TV, to get it to change channel, when you can just stare at what you want and blink to select? Well, that’s...
View ArticleI Want TDK’s Gorgeous New Headphones and Speaker Cube That Can Charge Your...
TDK is known for designing really utilitarian, retro 80′s futuristic audio equipment — black, gold, hard lines, Terminator, Burton’s Batman, TDK — that encourages you to show it off without feeling...
View ArticlePanasonic’s Glasses Free 103-Inch 3D TV Is Disappointingly Rubbish
When it comes to glasses-free 3D TVs, we’ve had the bar set really quite high by the amazing Lumabox, and to be honest, Panasonic’s latest offering is just pants compared to it. OK, the Lumabox isn’t...
View ArticleThe Sonic Chair Is the Coolest Thing I’ve Seen at IFA
IFA’s been chock-a-block full of tablets, 3D TVs and, err, cooking appliances, but the coolest thing I’ve seen this year has to be the new and improved Sonic Chair. Sit in this thing and be utterly...
View ArticleYou’ve Got to Watch This Samsung Exec’s 15-Second “Shit” Gaffe
Fair enough, I don’t think I’d feel comfortable doing a presentation in front of thousands of industry people, but intoning at your own company’s conference that “we’ve heard a lot of shit about...
View ArticleI Want This Gorgeous Mega-Widescreen Monitor Right Now
So far, Sony and Samsung have dominated IFA with a torrent of magical TVs and new phones. But quietly, LG is showing off one of the coolest monitors we’ve ever seen. The Verge reports the 2560 x 1080...
View ArticleHow Samsung Threatened To Strand Two Bloggers in Germany at IFA
Being stranded in a foreign country without enough money to buy yourself a ticket home is a special kind of nightmare. Samsung threatened to do exactly that to two bloggers, according to a harrowing...
View ArticleiPhone 5 Mockup Shows How Taller Design Stacks Up Against the 4S
An anonymous case manufacturer has been showing off a physical mockup of the iPhone 5 at Europe’s IFA consumer electronics fair this weekend. While it doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know,...
View ArticleThe Samsung Galaxy Camera Will Cost £399 in Mid-October
Fancy yourself one of Samsung’s strange, yet possibly wonderful Android Jelly Bean-powered cameras? The Galaxy Camera will cost you almost the same as an entry-level DSLR, at 400-smackers, but at least...
View ArticleTwo Cores Can Still Get the Job Done
The non-stop hype machine may be telling you that your phone’s an embarrassment if it’s not got a quad-core processor inside (and a screen big enough to entertain 100,000 spectators at Hyde Park), but...
View ArticleCan Sony Handle Four Screens at Once?
Sony has a big vision for the future. It’s a future in which we own a Sony tablet; a Sony TV; a Sony phone and a Sony computer, and they all work as one to make our Sony-branded lives better. How’s...
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