Filed under: Laptops One day later and Sony's battery recall has already tripled in size. What started as a recall of 35,000 , just hit 100,000 (75,000 of which are HP related) and now includes Li-ion batteries used in some Acer laptops as well as the original list of Dells, HPs, and Toshibas. All...

Electronics firm Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops because of wiring faults that may cause overheating. Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:14:47 GMT

Filed under: Gaming , Laptops Rewind back to late 2006. The PS3 was launching alongside the Wii and geeky editors like ourselves were having a field day. We'd already managed to convince our good pal Ben Heck to build another Xbox 360 laptop and the Wii Laptop , so it was only a matter of time before...

Filed under: Portable Audio , Portable Video , Transportation When you call your product a Mobile Multimedia Solution it had better offer up a pretty robust set of connectivity options; especially when it costs $1,100. In that manner, Alpine's new WXGA touch-screen IVA-W505 doesn't disappoint...

Filed under: Desktops , Media PCs While Shuttle's KPC most certainly wasn't aimed at the enthusiast in the crowd, its newest XPC definitely is. The XPC G5 6801M gets going with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, LG's GGC-H20L Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drive...

Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp. The decision ends a war between rival consortiums led by Toshiba and Sony vying to set the...

More news for the Blu-Ray camp then....the war is over! So we could see a new player as soon as the summer...well not in the UK then....that will be Christmas! Source

Elonex a blast from the past....read on and think what you may! More at Source

I've finally taken the plunge into the world of DVR (Digital Video Recorders). Being naturally mean I've held off splashing out until I saw this little beauty at Maplin. The NIKKAI A52HF . Although it says NIKKAI on the front it does say Maplin on the back...is Nikkai an own-brand? Anyway, at...

I came across the Chumby (chumby?) on Digg the other day and I'm still trying to make my mind up about it. In essence it seems to be some sort of Google sidebar that's become corporeal - it runs widgets and displays web stuff - pictures, ebay auctions etc. There's more to it than that of...