Anyone who is looking for a more unique timepiece to wear on their wrist, might be interested in the new Limited Edition C3H5N3O9 "Nitro” Experiment ZR012 Timepiece which has just been unveiled.

The watch is powered by a Wankel-inspired movement that shows hours and minutes on a pair of eccentric rotating Reuleaux polygons, and is being launched in a limited run of just twelve timepieces.

If the new Limited Edition C3H5N3O9 "Nitro” Experiment ZR012 Timepiece takes your fancy you will also need deep poc ... Read more »

Panasonic has today announced a new version of its Toughbook SX2, which has now been slimmed down but is still hard enough to withstand knocks and bumps.

Panasonic have equipped their new SX2 Toughbook with an Intel Core i5-3320M vPro processor 3MB cache, up to 3.3GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, together with a 12.1 inch LED backlit screen encased in a magnesium alloy body.

The new Panasonic Toughbook SX2 has also been equipped with a high-powered batter ... Read more »

Unfortunately earlier in the week Felix Baumgartner had to delay his space jump from 120,000 feet, due to windy weather conditions. However hopefully if the weather allows, he will be re-attempting to jump this Sunday 14th at 8:30am EDT.

Taking him up to 120,000 feet height above the Earth is a special balloon called the Red Bull Stratos, which has been specially created to hold a colossal 30 million cubic foot (843,497 cubic meters) of helium gas.

As you can see in the image above the balloon is absolutely gigantic in size and is the biggest balloon ever made measuring 102.05 m tall approximately 335 feet. Equivalent to a 55 story building, or higher than the Statue of Liberty to put it in perspe ... Read more »

ThinkGeek has gone official with the new product called the Mega Stomp Panic Audio Reality Costume. This device is a little belt worn box that provides motion sound effects to go along with your feigned rage. This has to be the perfect accessory to go along with an Incredible Hulk costume for Halloween.

The device can make a number of different sound effects, with nine different sounds in all. The sound effects include giant robot, rainstorm, zombie attack, gigantic monster, gunslinger, medieval knight, pirate, and 8-bit gaming hero, or a giant steam punk robot. Depending on the mode each step per stomp will activate a sound effect.

That means for instance on rainstorm mode, each step sounds like you’re walking through water and a big stop sounds like you just jumped in a giant puddle. The d ... Read more »

Google has been working on updating its Street View in Google Maps, the update is now live and it covers a massive 250,000 miles of roads, and refreshes the content from the previous version.

According to Google this is their largest update to date, and they have increased their coverage of roads in the United States, Italy, Great Britain, Sweden and a range of other countries.

Today we’re making our Street View coverage more comprehensive than ever before by launching our biggest ever update–doubling our number of special collections and updating over 250,000 miles of roads around the world. We’re increasing Street View coverage in Macau, Singapore, Sweden, the U.S., Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Canada. And we’re launching special collections in South Africa, Japan, Spai ... Read more »

This week Asus has taken the wraps off its new Windows 8 ready all-in-one desktop PC in the form of the Asus ET2701, which is equipped with a 27 inch frameless, 10-point capacitive touchscreen LED backlit display.

The display of the Asus ET2701 provides users with a high definition resolution of 1920 x 1080, together with a high contrast ratio, and a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees in both horizontal and vertical directions.

The Asus ET2701 Windows 8 PC can be powered by a variety of processor options depending on your budget and requirements. With options for Intel Core i7-3770S 8 MB Cache, 3.10 GHz, TBD: Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz, the Core i5-3450 6 MB Cache, 3.10 GHz, TBD: Turbo Boost up to 3.5 GHz , the Core i5-3330, or the Core i3-3220.

Users can then opt to install up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and install up to 2Tb of storage using SATA HDD, with optical Blu-ray drive ... Read more »

If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Nintendo Wii U gaming console. You might be interested in s new website post on the the which reveals the inner workings of the Nintendo Wii U.

The new article sees the Wii U team reveal the inner workings of the new Wii U gaming console, including information about Nintendo’s new MCM, a multi-chip module to house the crucial CPU and GPU combination within the console.

Genyo Takeda, senior managing director and general manager of the Integrated Research and Development Division explains:

"This time we fully embraced the idea of using an MCM for our gaming console,”-”An MCM is where the aforementioned multi-core CPU chip and the GPU ch ... Read more »

It has been revealed today that Twitter has acquired the video clip service Vine, that never actually launched their new new video clipping service service as a public release.

As rumours have suggested over the past month the acquisition of Vine seems to point towards Twitter moving to compete and maybe replacing third-party Twitter options such as TwitVid, Posterous, and Mobypicture.

New start-up Vine launched earlier this year in June and currently has only three employees, however no official information has been released by Twitter or Vine, revealing details of the acquisition.

Both companies have been contacted regarding the new acquisition, and as always we will keep you updated as more official information surfaces.

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Some of our readers might remember the original PivotPad that launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year, now its creators  have unveiled a newly updated version called the PadPivot NST.Some of our readers might remember the original PivotPad that launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year, now its creators  have unveiled a newly updated version called the PadPivot NST.

The new PadPivot NST has now been equipped with a new tablet sticking pas that no longer requires an tablet case or dust cover. The new PadPivot NST has also been tweaked to fold up faster and even works with the new iPhone 5 if so desired. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Panda Robotics has this week launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help it generate enough funds to transform its concept PandaBot 3D Printer into reality.

The PanadaBot 3D Printer is currently available to pledge for $800, and has been designed to bring high quality affordable 3D printing to consumers. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the PanadaBot 3D Printer project and see it in action.

"Over the past 9 months we’ve designed and built our prototype printer. Since it’s designed as a manufactured product, construction techniques and materials were chosen to make it exceptionally stable, robust, and quiet. Fully encased in metal, the Pa ... Read more »