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Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who isn't afraid of the sun. An honors in English at the same institution failed to curb this. An MA in South African Literature, only made it worse as it gave him even more hours to spend in front of a computer screen. He hopes to go viral one day.
Younger gamers might not know this, but there was a time when most people played in arcades, not on consoles in their lounges. Razer's newest outing, the Atrox looks to be one of the coolest attempts to bring that arcade feel to your lounge we've yet seen.
The Xbox 360 controller is ideally suited to fighter games and should bring joy to the faces of button mashers everywhere, especially because it features swappable parts. If that sounds a little scary, don't ...
BlackBerry has officially the Q5, a Qwerty smartphone running BlackBerry 10 but designed for emerging market countries.
We've known for some time now that BlackBerry would be launching such a device, but in the run-up to its unveiling we had it pegged that it would run under the R10 moniker.
It's unclear how much the Q5 will cost, although we do know that it will come with a 3.1-inch touch-screen. If the leaks prior to the Q5's unveiling are to be believed ...
Acer has unveiled the R7, a 15.6-inch touchscreen notebook which appears to be an attempt to marry not just laptops with tablets but also the lessons learned from the burgeoning tablet stand market.
The device, which features a 1920x1080 screen and some serious computing power, has four modes. Each of these modes, it says, is designed to serve a specific function:
Ezel Mode -- Reach out and pull the display closer, eliminating the need to reach across the palm rest and ...
Apple has been out-Appled. The HTC One is a triumph of design and functionality and if you want your next phone to make you happy for a while yet, this is the one you should get. Scrap that, it's the phone everyone should get.
It's funny that, at a phase when it's in financial dire straits, HTC has managed to cook up something so astonishing. The Taiwanese giant is supposed to be dead and buried, one of the more significant casualties ...
If you love the size of the iPad mini or the Galaxy Note 8, but hate iOS and Android (what? It's entirely possible), then this should pique your interest: Acer looks set to launch the world's first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet.
Images of the tablet briefly appeared on Amazon on Friday showing an 8.1-inch device with 32GB of memory, a 1280 X 800 screen and retailing for US$379.99. The reason there's been a dearth of smaller tablets so far is ...
Well this is one for the books. Forget your Dells, HPs and Asuses, the best laptop for running Windows on is a Mac.
To be precise, it's a mid 2012 13-inch Macbook pro and, according to Soluto (the company which has come to this conclusion), it's because Microsoft's OS installs cleaner on the Apple device than any other. It's not Microsoft's fault though. The real problem, apparently lies with the manufacturers:
A main factor in this machine's metrics is the ...
GPS manufacturers like Garmin and TomTom have been in the sport watch game for a while. It makes sense too. In car sat-nav and smartphones are slowly rendering their motoring accessory products obsolete, but carrying a phone with you when you're exercising can be a pain at best and a liability at worst.
TomTom's latest range of sport watches shows another step forward for the sector. The company appears to be learning from the emergent smartwatch sector and, interestingly, there isn't ...
If you've watched enough news bulletins in your life time, you'll know that being a human rights or aid worker comes with the risk of kidnapping.
Enter a new wristband from the Civil Rights Defenders action group, which will send out a distress call to Twitter and Facebook if activated. The wristband can be activated manually or automatically if it is ripped off.
The wristband uses cellular and GPS technology to track its wearers and the first batch is set ...
This is interesting. Amazon is reportedly set to launch a US$99 seven-inch Kindle Fire HD that will ship later this year.
According to TechCrunch, the tablet will have a TI processor like the rest of the Amazon lineup and as well as the 1200X800 screen found on the current Kindle Fire. That's not bad for something that'll sit right at the bottom of the tablet pricing range.
Getting it to that stage will be no mean feat either. The ...
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