“We’re in a tsunami of personalization. With a cellphone, you can find anything, anywhere. But you can’t find out is information about your own body,” say the creators of the Star Trek inspired, US$199 Scanadu Scout, the world's first working medical tricorder. It’s also one of the best performing Indiegogo projects of all time, earning a cool US$1 041 452 (so far) of its startup goal. Considering that Scandadu was asking for US$100 000 only, the million dollar bonus proves ...

PlayStation 3 gamers have been complaining about their consoles being bricked after installing Sony's new update. So whatever you do, don't accept the new v4.45 update. Don't press X when Sony prompts you to. At least not yet. According to Twitter feeds and forums, some users complained that they couldn't boot their systems after installing the newest firmware update. Some PS3 owners are saying that the update makes it impossible to load the system's XMB (Xross Media Bar). Your console will ...

Turns out if you say "I haven't used a Windows Phone" loud enough someone will send you one. While floating about in my quasi-world of "I know everything imaginable because my iPhone is awesome" a giant Nokia Lumia 920 landed on my lap. I can't stress this enough -- this phone is big. I am not sure what Nokia was trying to do here -- take us back to the old days where phones were as big as a person's head? Design: ...

Apple TV is nifty media player for US$99 and with the release of a new beta OS update, this tiny media player gets iRadio and a visual mode called "Conference Room Display”. iRadio is from the beta of iOS 7 and lets users stream their music to other iOS 7 devices. Conference Room Display shows off AirPlay related messages -- as an example you could have Apple TV display instructions on how conference guests can connect to Apple TV via ...

Apple finally revealed its highly anticipated iOS 7 operating system, redesigned by Jony Ive. It’s stunning. The entire OS has been reorganized, reimagined, revitalized. It shattered expectations in every way but one: the home screen icons. After five days, I was hoping I would fall in love with them, break them in, like a new pair of jeans. But I didn’t. Because those icons are just plain ugly. Dribbble’s designers seem to agree, so they did what they do best: they powered up Photoshop ...

Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment division is offending gamers but pleasing Xbox shareholders. This video from Bloomberg.com has Mattrick defending the US$500 price of the Xbox One (Sony’s PS4 will cost US$399). The video was shot at this years E3, an annual gaming trade show. Mattrick says that the value-adds of the Xbox One include Xbox Live, “innovation unique to Xbox One” like the newly updated Kinect, SmartGlass, a partnership with the NFL, Halo 5 game and TV series. And then, ...

AMD has just announced a new "roadmap" of city-titled CPUs, which include an interesting move towards entering the smartphone and tablet markets. Chip supplier AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is attempting to gain some ground in a market dominated by Intel. It's a three-step process where we'll be introduced to the aptly coined "Warsaw," "Berlin" and "Seattle" chips. ARM-based chips are engineered for reduced costs, heat and power usage which nicely fit tablet and smartphone designs. Seattle is hoping to "bring AMD ...

HTC just released the specs of the Desire 200. No pricing is yet available but given the specs, this little guy's for the smartphone entry-market. No, this is not another HTC One (or two). Instead it's meant for the lower-end smartphone consumers. Apart from having a name sounding like a skanky perfume, the specs leave much more to be desired. It's presented by a 3.5-inch, 320 x 480 LCD display which is to be fitted around a not-too-shabby cozy-looking design. For ...

I own no smartphone. Every so often, a company sends me their phone to review and for a few weeks or months, I live the dream again. From Samsung to Sony to Apple to BlackBerry and back again, this is my story. I live with the phones so you don’t have to. This is my story of the Samsung Galaxy S 4. My first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 weren't good. I actively hated it because I thought it ...