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Teletext is dead: Happy Christmas, luddites!

Today is Nate's birthday. To celebrate, Teletext is being switched off. A rubbish present if you ask us. But unfortunately it was just too much of a cash drain

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Woo Audio 6 Special Edition headphone amp: Ears on

This is the Woo Audio 6 Special Edition -- a high-end headphone amplifier, aimed towards anyone who appreciates the advantage of headphones that cost as much as a car

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Borderlands: Like Fallout 3, but backwards

I played the entire game with a friend, and by doing so, fetch quest after fetch quest became a month of uninhibited blood-splattered co-operative mayhem

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Samsung NX10 unveiled: Micro Four Thirds gets competition

The Micro Four Thirds camera system has some incompatible competition from Samsung: NX technology. And the first camera to use it is Samsung's 14.6-megapixel NX10

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Samsung N210, N220, N150 and NB30: netbooks with 12-hour batteries FTW

Samsung has announced a brand new line of netbooks, all of which are powered by Intel's latest Atom processor -- the 1.66GHz N450 -- which offers even lower power consumption

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UK Palm Pre to get paid apps in March

To celebrate the excruciating lateness of the Palm Pre to the UK late last year, Palm has set a date for paid-for applications to be available on the device in Europe: March

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O2 users sent a quarter of a billion texts saying 'Happy New Year!!! xx'

New Year's Eve is always a whopper of a night for phone fingering. This morning O2 gave us the scoop on just how much time its customers were wasting sending drunken virtual greetings

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Samsung IceTouch YP-H1: Transparent MP3 player unveiled

Samsung has produced an MP3 player with a see-through, colour AMOLED screen -- the IceTouch. We don't know why it's called that. Maybe it's coated in liquid nitrogen or something

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Sony Alpha DSLR-A450: Low-end high-end

Sony's dropped another almost affordable dSLR into the UK camera market -- the 14.2-megapixel A450 -- aimed at amateur photographers after something easy to use, it seems

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Tablet PCs: Can we please calm the hype?

Consumer demand is what you'd see if Ford said it was working on building a car powered by sneezes. It's not what we're seeing for tablet computers, so let's all calm down shall we?

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Kindle DX now available in UK: It's not fat, it's big boned

Amazon.com has announced it'll now ship an international version of its massive, designed-for-newspapers-and-textbooks Kindle to the UK -- but it'll cost you a fortune

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Sennheiser RS 180: 'Lossless' wireless headphones

Sennheiser's new £220 RS 180s are open-backed hi-fi cans but, unlike most, use a lossless wireless transmission system. This means CD quality audio gets to you without data being lost

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HP Slate gets face time in Microsoft keynote

At Microsoft's CES keynote last night, CEO Steve Ballmer showed off HP's forthcoming tablet PC and, frankly, all we could think was, "Wow, that's a thick son of a gun"

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Toshiba NB300, NB305 netbooks: Snow White's a dwarf

Toshiba has announced a pair of almost identical netbooks. Most such machines bore the pants off us, but these 10.1-inch models have a few interesting features

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Touché: UK Apple Stores to use iPod touches as credit-card readers

Apple is preparing to phase out its portable credit card machines in UK Apple Stores, in favour of using iPod touches loaded with a special application and hardware adaptor

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HTC Smart: A smart phone that's cheap as chips -- Qualcomm chips, that is

HTC has unveiled what it is claiming is a new type of smart phone, focusing on ease of use rather than advanced features, running on a platform built by chip-maker Qualcomm

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LG X300: Ultraportable laptop with fastest ever Atom

With the fastest Intel Atom processor ever made, solid state disks and a beautiful design, we couldn't not write about LG's latest ultraportable laptop

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Three years of ludicrous Crave graphics

From the ridiculous to the sublime, Crave has used some ludicrous illustrations from one of its editors. Actually, few were sublime. So here's a collection of the most ridiculous

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The complete history of Apple's iPod

To celebrate the iPod's 10th birthday, we embark on a tour of the iconic MP3 player from its very first model, right up to the present day.

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Red Dwarf: Six smegging ridiculous gadgets

To celebrate the triumphant return of Lister and co, we bring you the greatest gadgets and top technologies from the Red Dwarf universe.

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