Almost 365 days ago, Razer reached into its bag of ill-conceived concept devices and plucked out the Switchblade — a funky-looking gaming netbook that failed to materialise. Fast forward a year and Razer has plucked yet another blinder from its sack of implausibility. Behold, friends, Project Fiona. Whereas the Switchblade was based on last year’s …

Internet TVs are all the rage these days and that trend is set to continue well into 2012. This year, we’ll see a host of web-ready idiot boxes from Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba and — if rumours are to be believed — even Apple. Many more are expected to join the fray, including UK firm Canonical’s Ubuntu TV offering, which looks …

The youth of today love to send those text messages. They love it so much, in fact, that they’re apparently even doing it in their sleep. Slumber expert Dr David Cunnington of the Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia has reported an increasing number of young people falling asleep and then sending bewildering text messages to people in their address …

Our beloved gadgets are turning us into a generation of hunchbacked invalids, according to a new survey by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).  The BCA has revealed 24 per cent of Brits have complained of neck or shoulder pain while using or carrying gadgets and suggest things may get worse, with 29 per cent of us typically carrying two or …

BlackBerry maker RIM is understandably eager to move on after its embarrassing recent worldwide service outage, and has teased us with two new BlackBerry 7-powered handsets. The BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 and the BlackBerry Bold 9790, codenamed Bellagio, were unveiled on the BlackBerry Developers Blog. You may want to keep the whoops, high fives and congratulatory back slaps on ice a …

Want a smart phone that doesn’t run Android, iOS or Windows Phone 7? No, it’s okay — you can admit it — we won’t judge you. Step up, oh ye of unconventional taste in smart phone operating systems, and have a gander at the Nokia 603. It’s one of a new wave of entry-level smart phones that use Symbian Belle …

The tech-obsessed denizens of the UK are taking dirty talk to new extremes. More than one in six mobile phones are contaminated with some kind of bacteria, including E.coli, according to recent research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  The LSHTM discovered this startling revelation after taking 390 samples of bacteria from the hands and phones of …

We’ve some bad news for anyone foolish enough to have splashed out on a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play in the last few months: online retailer Expansys has slashed the price of the phone to a mere £199.80. You may commence repeatedly kicking yourself in your own face. We’d be pretty miffed, too, if we’d paid nearly £600 for the thing …

Hey, look, here’s another tablet PC that isn’t the iPad 2. No, don’t run away. This, the Toshiba AT200, is rather good for an Android tablet and may just change your… Hello? God you people are shallow. Those of you who’ve stuck around will find the 10.1-inch AT200 has loads going for it, like the fact it’s bleedin’ skinny — …

The 55-inch Samsung D8000 is without question, almost certainly probably the best 3D TV in the world, but if you’ve bought one recently, prepare to kick yourself in your own head. Why? Because Samsung’s just busted out a new model with a bigger screen and even more features — the 60D8000. As you may have guessed from the name, the …