So it’s come to this. After 114 episodes of “Simpsons” references, spontaneously bursting out into song and occasionally, if there’s some time left, talking about tech news. As we close in on two years, the Girt team prepares to go on hiatus, but we’ll be farewelling the show in style. The team looks back at …

Doing the math, I must have tapped my phone screen close to a hundred thousand times playing Magikarp Jump, the new Pokemon-themed mobile game. I regret every single one of those taps. Some background: A Magikarp is a Pokemon. It looks like a gaping, stunted koi fish. It’s famously useless, save for the fact it turns into a huge water …

The sun’s going down on the last incredibly humid day of Computex 2017 in Taipei. As I’m preparing to fly home, back to Sydney in glorious winter, I’m thinking about the past week. The phenomenally slim laptops I saw, the visionary keynotes I listened to, the obscene gaming rigs that were tempting me to start my Season 5 placement matches …

Sure, it may be the purview of extreme PC modders and the kind of anal-retentive person that needs to know his RGB keyboard lights up to colour match his RAM, but we’re at Computex. This is where those people live. Newly released from Bastillix is DDR4 RAM with customisable LEDs. The LED lights are controlled through a custom app, and …

On the show floor of Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan, I was distracted by flashing lights and magnets. I’m only human. The source of the luminous nerd catnip was the Allocacoc booth, a Netherlands-based design firm, showing off a wide range of… well, the best word for the varied products is a non-descript “stuff”. They were showing off stuff, ranging …

In an arena where milliseconds matter, MSI is making a play for gamers at the bleeding edge of competition. The Taiwanese gaming company took to the stage at Computex 2017 in Taipei amid blaring techno music to announce new laptops encased in sports car-inspired chassis. That’s apt, because we’re not on a frontier where astronauts forge out into a cosmos, …

We first got a glimpse of the Nitro 5 at the Acer press conference last month, and Acer is leaning heavy on “modern titles at a mainstream price.” Designed in different configurations to hit a variety of needs for casual gamers, the Nitro 5 will start at $799 in July (converting to around AU$1,075 or £615). Working to give you …

The Australian fast food industry continues its cutthroat competition to be the most innovative, the most bleeding-edge, the most technologically savvy. While Domino’s pizza-delivering robot is a vision of the far-flung, human-free future, McDonald’s Australia has done one better and launched something you can actually use and not just laugh at. The app is simple. Fire it up, pick your …

On this week’s Girt by CNET, Luke has tasted of the sleep science kool-aid, and extols the virtues of a full eight hours. After trying out the new Fitbit Alta HR this week, the team talks fitness tracking, wearable wish lists and training for explosive power. And it wouldn’t be a Girt episode if we didn’t talk about metadata. With …

The Galaxy S8 is nearly here, and it’s bringing with it a sweetener for Westpac customers. Samsung has announced today a partnership with Westpac, so if you’re both a Galaxy user and a Westpac customer, baby, you’re in what we call the Samsung Pay Venn diagram overlap. Samsung Pay is compatible with a range of Galaxy devices, including the Gear …