ViewSonic at IFA gave away many of the details surrounding its dual-booting ViewPad tablet. Now dubbed the ViewPad 100, the 10-inch tablet runs on a 1.66GHz Atom and uses either Windows 7 or the now old Android 1.6; either side supports multi-touch. It uses just a 16GB solid-state drive, but an SDHC card slot provides [...]

Toshiba has announced some interesting upgrades to its pocket camcorder lineup at IFA, with the new Camileo S30 and P20 models. Both camcorders support 1080p full HD video capture with 10X digital zoom. Other features include an HDMI out port, SD card slot for up to 64 GB of storage, and touchscreen controls. The S30 [...]

Sharp is all set to release a new feature-rich 3D Blu-ray player in November, called the Sharp BD-HP90S. This slim Blu-ray player can play 2D or 3D Blu-ray discs and packs in Wi-Fi to grab BD-Live content from the web without wires. There is also a USB port that allows media playback from external drives. [...]

Samsung is going crazy naming even more devices Galaxy. The latest is the Galaxy Player 50 which is a portable media player. It’s powered by Android 2.1 and comes with a 3.2-inch display. It will handle DivX, H.264 and a bunch of other media formats. Your choice of either 8GB or 16GB of internal memory. [...]

LG’s 31-inch OLED TV has been showing off at IFA 2010. It measures just 2.9mm thin, which is pretty amazing. But that thinness comes at a price.How about £6,000? It is coming in March of next year. Some features include Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution and a contrast ratio that allows it to be [...]

The LG Optimus One and Optimus Chic have been spotted again. Both of them will be powered by Android. Unfortunately we still don’t have specifications, a price or an availability date. The LG Optimus One is also known as the P500 and we do know that Android 2.2 Froyo comes bundled with it, along with [...]

Toshiba has been in the notebook computer business for a long time and has over the years been forced to recall some of its machines for various reasons. Toshiba has announced a recall of some of its T series notebook computers due to a burn risk. Toshiba is recalling the Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and [...]

Business users who do a lot of presentations know that schlepping a normal projector around the city or an airport is no fun. The new glut of small pocket and pico projectors coming to the market promise a lot more portability, but they give up a lot in performance. Toshiba has unveiled a new pocket [...]

I have a bunch of flash drives lying around my office and they are all fat drives that block USB ports and need to be plugged into a port with a lot of room around it. This is a huge pain, especially if you are on a netbook or notebook with only a few ports. [...]

I have always wanted to have one of those fancy home automation systems that would control the lights in my home with the push of a button. I also want a touchscreen on the wall to control the system too. If you have the home automation system and want the touchscreen controller on the wall [...]

They love Walkmans in Japan. So much so that Sony’s Walkman line has temporarily passed the iPod for sales in Japan again, according to researchers at BCN. Players like the S640 helped Sony slide past in August with 47.8 percent of sales where Apple dropped to 44 percent. The Walkman overtook the iPod briefly a [...]

Looks like Samsung is readying a new Android handset, the Gem, which also recently appeared in a leaked roadmap for Verizon. The entry-level handset has been listed in a buyer’s guide from Best Buy. The Gem is most likely a cheaper alternative to the Galaxy S-series Fascinate, which is due sometime in the next week [...]

RockStar games has announced that it will be launching a version of GTA for the Apple iPad, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars HD. That should make some iPad users very happy. Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars HD will be available on the iPad on September the 9th for $9.99. That seems a bit expensive, but [...]

This DIY meat smoker is a must make. Real men need meat. And they need to know when it is done. Simple as that. And so this meat smoker will alert you via a text message whenever your meat is ready. Peter Rauch decided to use a proportional-integral-differential (PID) controller which can modulate electrical power [...]

Whether you call it the HTC Emerald, or the MyTouch HD from T-Mobile, it will be hitting the market on November 3rd. That looks about right, but we wouldn’t rule out a delay for a few days either. Hey, roadmaps can be blurry. Whatever day it arrives, November is right around the corner, just like [...]