Sep 19, 2010

Android devices are big news. So too are tablets: a Week or two we heard – officially – about the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and that should be hitting the streets pretty soon. And this week we saw Viewsonic announce their new tablet. With a ten inch form factor plus NVidia’s Tegra 2 chip, this US$430 tablet will be running Android 2.2. With its...

Sep 19, 2010

One of the latest crazes doing the rounds is that of group buying. The way it works is that some intermediary, typically some sort of website or service, organises a discount deal with a supplier of products – maybe a restaurant meal or some other goods – and in theory, the consumers visit the intermediary’s website and buy the product/deal...

Sep 12, 2010

In a recent survey, eBay discovered that Australians are holding on to a lot of value in unused stuff that is just sitting around the house. In NSW, for instance, they discovered that the typical household has over $800 worth of stuff that is sitting around, unused and unloved. This week our Gadget Gorilla, Gary Stark, chatted with eBay’s Jenny Thomas to...

Sep 12, 2010

The video must get through. In Britain, the Royal Male Mail has come up with a novel idea relating to those miniature works of art, postage stamps. By the inclusion of a special code on the stamp, a user can scan the stamp using their Android or iOS powered phone, using the augmented reality app ‘Junaio’. This will then cause a short film of actor...

Sep 12, 2010

No gadgets! Hands up if you’ve ever been distracted from what you’re supposed to be doing, in order to check your phone for a message that hasn’t come, or because you were just bored, or anxious, or ….. A group calling itself “Offlining” is proposing a “A time for all to atone for tech sins”, wherein we are all...