New MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Faster, more powerful yet thinner and more lighter. This is the new MacBook Pro.

Aswell as having the most brightest and most colourful notebook display yet, the new MacBook Pro introduces ' the Touch Bar' — a Multi-Touch enabled strip of glass built into the keyboard for instant access to the tools you want, right when you want them.

A long, skinny OLED touchscreen that sits above the keyboard, where you normally find the  traditional F1-F12 keys, as well as the escape key and power button. There is also a fingerprint reader on the far right end of the bar, similar to the one on the iPhone, which enables Touch ID and Apple Pay for secure system log-ins and online payments.

The bar changes automatically based on what you’re doing to show you relevant tools you already know how to use — system controls like volume and brightness, interactive ways to adjust or browse through content, intelligent typing features like emoji and predictive text, and more. And for the first time, Touch ID is available on a Mac, enabling instant access to logins and fast, secure online purchases with Apple Pay.

The keyboard has a redesigned 2nd Gen butterfly mechanism- refined for more responsiveness and comfort when typing. The Force Touch trackpad is now larger, 2x in fact, to give you more room to click and make gestures.

The speakers have been redesigned and now provides up to twice as much dynamic range as the previous MacBook Pro and up to 58% more volume.

As for ports we now have Thunderbolt 3 combined with USB-C universal ports around the edges. This means data transfer, charging, and video output are all in a single connector, delivering up to 40 Gbps of throughput.

They will come in a 13" and 15" size. Prices start at £1,449 ($1,499 USD) for a MacBook Pro without a touch bar and £1,749 ( $1,799 USD) with the New Touch Bar.

In addition to the Touch Bar, you get a faster processor (a 2.9GHz Intel Core i5, versus a 2.0GHz Core i5), better integrated Intel graphics (Iris 550 versus Iris 540), and it doubles the number of included USB-C Thunderbolt ports to four. 

New macbook pro Core i5 and i7

The new range of macbook pros have been announce and they will come shipped with the new intel Core i5 and i7 processors.

The new processors will boost performance up to 50 per cent over the previous generations and the new macbooks will have the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discreet graphics card inside.

The Battery life will be around 8-9 hours and the screen will be an LED back-lit glossy display with resolutions up to 1440x900 or 1920x1200 depending on the model.

Sony Vaio Signature Spring 2010 Collection

Sony have a limited edition Spring 2010 'Signature Collection' for its range of Vaio laptops.

These special designed laptops comes in a few varietys of styles and colour schemes not avalible in stores. 

More info and pics at: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644649998&N=4294954789#/main/ 

iPhone 4.0

Details of the new OS for the iPhone has been released at a recent Apple event.

The 4.0 OS will ship in around June and have many new features such as:
 
Multitasking
Fast app switching
Local notifications
App folders
A new Mail app
iBooks
Custom backgrounds
Game Center
iAd advertising
5x digital zoom
Bluetooth keyboards

More info and pics at: http://gizmodo.com/5512635/iphone-os-40-all-the-new-features

iPad Launched

 Announced at the start of the year, the iPad has finally launched.

The sleek tablet device ranging from 16Gb to 64Gb has been on sale in the U.S since April 3rd 2010 and allows you to browse the internet, watch movies downloaded or on video streaming sites such as Youtube, be able to choose and use one of the millions of apps from the Apple apps store, download and listen to your favorite songs from iTunes and write text documents.

iPad specific apps are being developed for the device and early indications show that over 300,000 of the devices have been sold already.

However, for some unlucky few there have been complaints of technical glitches with fluctuation when using wifi and the device was not charging properly. Developers are working on updates to fix these problems which should be out in a few days.

The iPad will be on sale in Britain by the end of April with prices range from $499 (around £330) to $829 (around £550) 

Hamilton watch inspired by 2001 a Space Odyssey

The Hamilton Time Player Watch is a recycled design from a clock they originally made for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Director Stanley Kubrick was said to be notoriously pernickety about design.

The titanium watch has nine tiles on the face, eight of which have counters on.

The last tile acts like a sliding puzzle that allows for the time to be set depending on their location. 

The watch will cost $2,700.

Mad Catz F.L.Y. 9 Wireless Flight Stick

Mad Catz has announced the F.L.Y. 9 Wireless Flight Stick for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

 

The F.L.Y. 9 follows in the footsteps of the Cyborg line of PC flight sticks and offers gamers realistic control method for flight simulations or flight combat games.

More pics and info at: http://www.cyborggaming.com/prod/v9stick.htm

pCubee

pCubee is a cubic handheld display system that is made up of 5 flat-panel screens. 

These 5 screens uses real-time physics simulation and perspective corrected rendering to create the visuals and interactive 3D content inside the cube.

Super Street Fighter IV arcade sticks

With Super Street Fighter IV on the horizon,  Mad Catz and Capcom have announced a new 'Tournament Edition' arcade stick featuring brand new art work. It will be avalible in 2 styles.

Along with this special edition 4 new FightPads also with new artwork.

Pokemon Soul Silver and Heart Gold

The Pokemon Gold and silver games have been revamped and re released on the Nintendo DS and DSi consoles.

The classics that were first introduced over a decade ago on the Gameboy colour have been updated in graphics and sound as well as added touch screen capabilities.

In Japan the game will also come bundled with a 'Pokewalker', which is a pokeball device with a screen that allows you to transfer a Pokemon you have captured onto it.

As you walk around with the device away from the game, the Pokemon will gain experience points transferred from the 'watts' you have gain while walking around. You can then upload the Pokemon back into the game with its new experience points.

Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku -Art special

Last Window: Midnight Promise is the sequel to the popular Nintendo DS adventure game, Hotel Dusk: Room 215.

Once again you will take the role of protagonist Kyle Hyde and  things will take place one year after the events of the first game.

Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo have announced they are working on some new hardware, called the Nintendo 3DS.

They describe the new portable as allowing games to be' enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses'. The new hardware will also be backwards compatible with DS and DSi games.

The video above is from a Japan only DSiware game which shows the possibility of how the N3DS could look, feel and play.

According to Nintendo, the product will go on sale between April 2010 and March 2011.

Sony Vaio E series adding 14" and 17"

Sony has announced they are extending their E series by adding 14 and 17 inch screens to the line.

The 17 inch will have a Full HD 1920x1080 screen while the 14 inch has a resolution of 1600x900 but both will be in a 16:9 ratio.  

Both models will come with a 500GB Hard drive, 4GB DDR3 memory and a ATI Mobility Radeon 5000 series graphics card. They will have 3 side-mounted USB ports and a high-speed eSATA/USB port.

Expect the 17 inch to come packed with a Blu ray player and a full sized keyboard, which the will not be an option for the smaller 14 inch.

They will both come in a variety of bright vibrant high gloss colours from green, pink, blues, white and black.

TokyoFlash Kisai Escape C

Not only do Tokyoflash do watches they also do wireless hubs.

The 'Kisai Escape C' can be paired with your mobile phone to receive and make calls wirelessly and hands free. It can also be paired up with an MP3 player and is also time piece.

More info and pics at: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/kisai/escape-c/

 

Audi A1 UK price

 Audi has recently revealed the price to the eagerly  anticipated A1.

The supermini scheduled for release in May will start from £13,145.

Audi will offer 3 engines, which includes a 86bhp 1.2 and 122bhp 1.4 TFSI petrol engines and a 105bhp 1.6 TDI diesel.

The 1.4 TFSI is the only engine available that you can have a seven-speed twin-clutch S-tronic transmission, costing an additional £1,420.

More info and pics at: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/249829/audi_a1_prices_revealed.html

Playstation Move tech demo

Sony gave a tech demo and showed the potential of the Playstation Move at a recent Sony event. Originally aired on Engadget Live.

Street fighter 4 i Phone/ i Pod app

 No more Street Fighter blisters as now you can screen bash and hadoken your way through the iconic fighters in the new Street Fighter 4 app for iPhone/iPod.

Featuring 8 characters in 7 different environments these will include fan favorites such as Ryu and Chun Li. With amazing visuals and smooth gameplay you can also battle against friends via Bluetooth.

The app will cost £5.99 / $9.99 USD.

Note: Multiplayer is not supported on iPod Touch 1st generation and iPhone 1st generation.