Last week s well as announcing the new iPad Mini, Apple also updated their iPad to a fourth generation model which comes with some improvements over the third generation model, including a new processor and a lightning dock connector.

Now some benchmarks from Geekbench, of the new iPad 4 have revealed that it features a dual core Apple A6 processor clocked at 1.4GHz, which is faster than the one used in Apple’s new iPhone 5.

The benchmarks have also revealed that the new iPad 4 comes with 1GB of RAM, have a look at the benchmark below which compares the iPad 4 to the iPhone 5 and also the iPad 3, it looks like it is faster than both the iPhone 5 and also the iPad 3.

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Google’s latest devices which include the new Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus 10 tablet and the new Nexus 4 smartphone will all come with a new version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

Google has now released some details of what is new in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, which includes a new camera feature called Photo Sphere that lets you snap photos in any direction and then join the photos together.

Google has also updated the keyboard in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, with new gesture typing, and another new feature is multiple users for tablets, allowing you to setup your tablet for individual users with different apps, home screen, widgets and more for each users.

You can find out full details of everything that is new in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean over at ... Read more »

If you’re familiar with some of the novelty USB gadgets out there like missile launchers and such, you’ve probably seen a Dream Cheeky product. The company has announced a new product called the iStrike Shuttle that is on Kickstarter right now looking for the funding for production. The device is a iOS controlled flying toy.

The app will allow control of the helicopter using motion controls or finger swipes. The coolest part about this flying toy is that it has a ping-pong ball inside they can be dropped at the touch of a button. The toy helicopter also ships with a orange wheel that connects to the bottom of the helicopter to help you learn to fly it.

The project is seeking $30,000 and has raised $9851 so far. There is still 25 days to fund the project and it will cost you at ... Read more »

Philips has announced a new light bulb which is designed to be controlled by eithet your smartphone or tablet, the Philips Hue, which is a web enabled LED lightbulb and you can use your device to change the color of the bulb.

As well as changing the color of the Hue with your smartphone, you can also turn light of and on and controls them remotely via the Internet when you are away from your house.

Other features on the Philips Hue include:-

Save your favorite light scenes for each room or time of day and recall them in an instant
Use any photo on your phone as a color palette to paint your room with light and bring your memories back to life
Tune white light from warm candlelight to vibrant, cool white light
Create ambience o ... Read more »

Apple is right now the most valuable company in the world, and their stock price has certainly grown by leaps and bounds over the years.

The thing is, what goes up must come down, but it does seem as though it will take some time before Apple is subject to the laws of gravity and fall back onto Newton’s proverbial head. One of the upcoming innovations from Apple include the possibility of Apple kicking off their very own streaming service in order to offer consumers yet another choice in an already crowded market that has players such as Spotify, Pandora, and Zune amongst others.

Whispers on the street do seem to point towards the possibility of an Apple online radio service being introduce to the masses sometime in the first quarter of next year. I guess only time will ... Read more »

Your favorite rapper’s favorite file sharing website is going to relaunch as soon as 2013, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom announced today. The site, simply called Mega, is going to be a rebirth of a website that once recorded 50 million unique visitors in a day as recently as 2011.

Earlier this year, US investigators in conjunction with New Zealand police raided Kim Dotcom’s mansion and servers. The raid happened on January 19, 2011, so Dotcom figures January 19 2012 is a perfect time to relaunch the site. 

Apparently, according to Dotcom, the coding is almsot done and the servers have been ordered. However, if you’re hoping to get your old files back, that’s not going to happen. Mega will be a fresh new site. What’s interesting is that Dotcom is touting mor ... Read more »

MIO, the maker of the world’s first strapless heart rate monitor watch, is unveiling today its newest product, the MIO Active Connect. This new device is something the company considers to be the first weight loss wristwatch, that will accurately gauges how many calories you’ve burned in order to assess how to lose weight more effectively.

Users can wear this fitness watch, similar to what they would do with the Nike+ FuelBand or the FitBit, and just behave how they normally would. The Active Connect measures and records calories burned throughout the day, along with monitoring your heart rate through its EKG monitor, and measures your steps with a pedometer.

It will record both daily and seven-day calorie burns to help analyze ... Read more »

MSI has today announced that their gaming laptops will be receiving a refresh and an upgrade to Windows 8 operating system launching today,with the first laptops to receive the new refresh being the MSI GT60 And GT70.

The MSI GT60 And GT70 high performance gaming laptops originally launched back in July of this year, and MSI are also looking to now upgrade their budget-conscious GE series and the AMD processor-based GX60 gaming laptop with Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system as well.

MSI released specifications for the upgraded gaming systems, listing the GT70 will feature a Core i7-3630QM 2.4 – 3.4 GHz processor, a 17.3-inch Full HD screen, and a range of Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M, 675M, 670M GPUs supported by 16 GB of DDR3 memory @ 1 ... Read more »

If you are considering upgrading your TV to something with a little bit more definition, and you have extremely deep pockets. You might be able to consider the new LG 84 inch Ultra HD 4K TV, which is now available to purchase for $20,000.

The LG 84LM9600 84 Inch Ultra HD 4K TV, has officially arrived in store today ready for installation in time for the holiday season, sporting a resolution of 3840 x 2160.

Quadrupling the level of detail from full 1080p HD resolution to a massive 8 million pixels, in the 4K format which is now referred to as Ultra HD.Jay Vandenbree, senior vice president, LG Electronics USA, and head of LG’s U.S. home entertainment business explains:

"Picture quality has always been LG’s foremost priority, one that’s especially important now as manufactur ... Read more »

Hard drive and peripheral manufacturer LaCie has today unveiled a new addition to their range of external solid state disk (SSD) drives, with the unveiling of their new LaCie Porsche Design Slim Drive.

The Lacie Porsche Design external drive is available as either a solid state disk 120GB (SSD) or a more traditional 500GB HDD, and comes equipped with a USB 3.0 port for super-fast data transfer.

LaCie’s new Porsche external Slim Drive range, is the thinnest LaCie have created, being 30 percent thinner than previous models, and encased aluminium. LaCie explains:

"Designed with Apple® enthusiasts in mind, the LaCie P’9223 Slim SSD version is up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 interface is bus-powered and delivers 400MB/s transfer speeds. This allows a photograph ... Read more »