If you have a longing for the days when the netbook was everywhere but still don’t want to give up your tablet portability, then Acer might have the device for you. We’ve played with a few of Acer’s hybrid products, including one with a massively sturdy hinge, but this is one of their better efforts. We’re referring, of course, to the Acer Aspire Switch 10 and its magnetic personality. Read More: Acer Iconia W5 Review The Aspire Switch 10 gets its name from the various ways that the hefty tablet, which acts as a display when you’re using this Acer…
Author: Brett Venter
Stuff goes through more than their fair share of gaming headphones during the course of an average year. We’re not clumsy and don’t need to constantly replace our kit (okay, there was that one time…), they just keep turning up for us to play with. But usually it’s brands that we’re extremely familiar with that turn up on our doorstep. Not so these headphones, the Sades A-60 Spellond PC gaming headset whose naming convention we’ve since given up trying to figure out. They come into SA from Shenzhen, China and you’d be forgiven for thinking that these headphones would feature…
It’s a sad day for PC gamers who are keen on getting their criminal on with Grand Theft Auto V. Rockstar Games has announced that the smash-hit sequel has been delayed for the platform. There are a few extra tweaks and some polishing required before the game can be launched on PC, Rockstar says, and that is the reason for the launch delay. Now we can expected GTA V to land on 24 March 2015, which is a bit later than everyone was expecting. But you can take heart in the fact that the PC is going to be getting…
Late last year Blizzard took some time at their annual Blizzcon event to announce a whole new IP in the form of Overwatch, which is set to be a multiplayer shooter that draws on the various fantasy worlds that the game publisher is known for. But it seems that they might have hit a snag. Not a major one in terms of development but a snag nonetheless. Some of the folks over at NeoGAF located some documents which states that the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) has suspended the company’s application for a trademark on the Overwatch name.…
Yeah, we’re going to twist the knife here a little bit. Music streaming service Spotify (which isn’t officially supported here in South Africa) has announced that the end of 2014 was a very productive time for them, to the tune of 10 million new users. That is, according to figures released by the company recently. Total Spotify users now number 60 million, which is up from 50 million just a couple of months previously. Of course, a large number of those users are free users but the company has also reported an increase in the number of paid subscribers to the…
British comedian Eddie Izzard has pointed out that the skipping rope is an unusual tool, being shared mostly between little girls and “big, f***-off boxers”. And, of course, anyone else who wants to get a punishing cardio workout in a confined space with a bit of head-room. But it’s past due for a tech update and that’s what Sophia, an ensmartening of the skipping rope, hopes to provide. Designed and developed between Cork in Ireland and Shenzhen in China, Sophia draws its name from an old Irish painting. But the tech that the team behind this smart jump-rope has included…
SpaceX has been lofting things into orbit for some time now, that’s the main reason that the company has a contract to ferry goods to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA but the most recent launch of the CRS-5 Dragon to the ISS was something very special. Not so much the launch itself, though a space launch will always retain a sort of raw power until we can harness clean-burning gravity drives, but what SpaceX was planning to do once the first-stage Falcom rocket disengaged from the main payload. The company has been experimenting with recovering their rockets by…
CES 2015 was the scene of a whole lot of 4K TV reveals, with everyone from Sharp to Sony to LG and Samsung getting in on the UHD act this year. But that still leaves the problem of where to find 4K video content to take advantage of all of those extra pixels. If you are a resident of the States then you have options. Netflix and Amazon will be able to provide a couple of streaming choices and DirecTV and Comcast will also let you display some stuff on your UHD screen in its native resolution. But here’s something…
It’s about time that we checked in on WhatsApp and the number of people using the (now highly) popular messaging service. When last we saw our heroes, they were sitting atop a pile of users 600 million high, so what has changed since August last year? Quite a bit, according to the company. Their monthly users have ballooned once more, jumping up some 100 million for a total of 700 million monthly users. That is, according to a Facebook post by WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum – which is a fitting place to offer an update for the now Facebook-owned service.…
There’s a lot going on at CES in Las Vegas this year. A spectacularly huge amount of stuff is being shown off, paraded around and generally pointed in our general direction, making us want all of it. LG’s shown off a few items of specific interest, like the G Flex 2, but they have a lot more to say at their conference than just discussing a curved, self-healing smartphone. Hit up the video link above for the full presentation which covers everything from the Internet of Things, which is on everyone’s lips at CES this year, to TVs (4K and…