It appears to be Docomo’s habit in recent years of teasing its latest new tech just ahead of Japan’s CEATEC conference, the country’s answer to CES. Among the projects the company showed off today in Tokyo was ibeam, a tablet prototype which uses an embedded eye-tracking function from Sweden-based Tobii. Docomo presented this as a user interface for a Fujitsu-made tablet today, and I was pretty pleasantly surprised with the results. Essentially the user just focuses their eyes on whatever item ...

You could only shoot a bunch of scowling birds at those gleeful green pigs for so long before wondering what their back story was. Well now Rovio's giving you the chance to play from the pig's perspective. The game, called Bad Piggies appears to be a sort of puzzle-style adventure game. You use a variety of objects to get the pigs to their intended destination and, it seems, wreak a fair amount of havoc along the way. The new game will ...

HTC's New York event is live. What devices does HTC plan to launch? A new tablet, an edge-to-edge Android device with laser beams? Find out as we live blog the HTC event, right now. A little history: HTC has been hammered as of late. Its stock is at an all-time low and its new range of phones have to compete with Apple, Samsung and Nokia for top spot. Let's see if the new devices can turn its fortunes around.

Right off the bat, SanDisk's 16Gb Extreme USB 3.0 impressed me. It's not the stupidly long name that did it, but the build quality and above-average speed of the device that won me over. Slowly buy surely Despite USB 3.0 going strongs since 2008, we haven't really warmed to its use. The reason's simple enough. We still hang on to our older devices with US 2.0, therefore anything faster seems like a waste. It's 2012 now, and every laptop comes with USB ...

Who's bad? We wrote this yesterday and declared how idiotic the slimmer PS3 is. Turns out that it is real, and it looks only marginally better than the blurry shots of yore. Here's what you need to know to reach PS3 nirvana. Slimmer The new PS3 250GB is 25% slimmer, the 500GB model is 20% svelter in comparison to the current console. Reducing the form factor meant disguising the Blu-ray drive, it's now incorporated into the top of the new PS3 via ...

Many people have been waiting for a Sony Alpha a900replacement ever since it was first announced all the way back in 2008. That was the last Sony DSLR camera to use a full-frame sensor. Earlier this year, the company confirmed that the next iteration of the full-frame device would use its translucent mirror technology (TMT). So here it is, in the Sony Alpha a99 DSLT. TMT was first introduced a couple of years ago with theSony Alpha a33 and Sony Alpha a55 DSLTs, and features a fixed, ...

We found this, and needed a moment to reflect. A cassette to iPod convertor is either the greatest gadget on this green earth, or the most horrendous idea ever conceived. It looks simple enough. Pop the iPhone/iPod into the convertor, add a chrome or plastic cassette tape, open the app and start recording. Files are copied in MP3 format directly to the device, so the tapes can be safely tucked back in to that spider-covered box in the attic. It's ...

Office 2013 is nearly upon us, and as you already know the new version is exceptionally user friendly and beautiful. But how much will it cost? Microsoft recently released their pricing structure for the upcoming Office suite and now you’ll have even more options when it comes down to it. Standard stand alone packages will be the same as they were with Office 2010. You’ll get Home & Student for R799 (est. based on current pricing), Home and Business for R1599 ...

It’s easy to get into a conversation with a gamer regarding Fifa, or Call of Duty, or Halo. If they’re male and under thirty, chances are they’ve played them all. Canny marketing and extensive advertising ensures these games are omnipresent, and the fact they’re released annually ensures they’re always relevant. But what of the myriad great games that never enter the general gaming consciousness? What of the games no one bothers to play? Alright, it’s a touch hyperbolic: these games do ...

The iPhone 5 uses the new nano-SIM. And South African mobile operator Vodacom has told its trading partners to "order new Nano SIM cards to be used in a soon to be announced new handset”. Put two and two together and that equates to SA readying itself for the iPhone 5, possibly. Nano-SIM pictured in the middle The price of the new nano-SIM will set users back around US $12 (R105). Can a standard micro-SIM be converted to a nano-SIM? Yes. Will ...