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PC

Fluff, The Silent Killer

Fluff can be a PC killer as I recently discovered, but the solution to the problem is straightforward. As a true geek, I built my own PC, but it's no speed demon with a mid-range quad-core processor. However, I'd been suffering from intermittent PC shutdowns that would always happen when I was at the PC and never when the PCs

Caught Out Again By Auto Update Reboot

Dear Microsoft, There's a bug in your auto-update program that makes Windows 7 reboot the PC even when the program has been told not to restart the PC. Last night, I was doing a full format of a 1 TB drive, which takes several hours to complete. Part way through, auto-update told me that it had installed new software and

iTwin Creates a Personal Cloud

iTwin is billed as an "infinite capacity thumb drive" but this sells the device short - it's much more than this. Andy finds out what its capable of from Akash at CES Showstoppers. The basic premise of iTwin is a pair of USB devices, one of which goes in your work desktop, the other in your home (or laptop) computer.

Leonar3Do Virtual Reality Kit

This looks more like an instrument of torture than any kind of bird I've seen but fortunately it's not and it's actually the virtual reality controller from Leonar3Do's desktop VR kit. Andy and Courtney breathe a sigh of relief and chat to Stewart Oldroyd from Leonar3Do. Hungarian start-up have created "the world's first desktop VR kit", consisting of the scary

AikenLabs Immersive Motion Accessory System

AikenLabs Immersive Motion Accessory System is a body-worn motion controller that takes real world actions and puts them into video games. Andy checks out some moves with Ethan from AikenLabs. The Immersive Motion Accessory System comprises small black boxes worn on bands that connect wirelessly to a master controller which in turn, is connected to PC or game console via

Vizio Introduces a Line of PCs

One of the reasons I am a fan of Apple products is because of their ability to design products that are both beautiful and functional. I will never deny that a Microsoft Windows base computer can do everything an Apple computer can do and in some areas maybe more. However there are very few Window’s based computers I have seen

Videophone with the Biscotti TV Phone

The sci-fi vision of the videophone being as commonplace as the telephone hasn't materialised but Skype and Google+ Hangouts have made videocalls with webcams popular, especially with families who are a spread across the world. Having said that, it's still not as convenient as picking up your phone and dialling a number. Biscotti hopes to change that will their TV