Coolest Gadgets and Games that Will Be Released a Few Months Ahead

3 + Months Away Technology:  Android 2.4 The next release of Android's mobile OS is due in summer and is to also be called Gingerbread, confusingly. Faster processing speeds are promised and it should also be more compatible with the tablet optimised Honeycomb OS. Game:  Resident Evil:Mercenaries The Mercenaries, that zombie massacre style mini game you unlock at the end of Resident Evil 4 and 5, is getting its own full-scale release, in 3D. Coming to the 3DS this summer it will be a spectacle of gore. 6 + Months Away Technology:   Sony NGP  With no UMDs, far more advanced controls and longer battery life, the Sony...

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10 Hottest Technologies Latest Days

It is a snapshot of the products igniting the tech world at this moment in time. Much of the gear has just landed or will touch down shortly. But all of it is blowing us away. Hottest 10 Hi-Tech Technologies is all about the products that are the most talked about and anticipated by most all peoples. This list is the most explosive ever. 10. HTC Flyer HTC is Android's BFF. It was there at the birth Google's mobile OS and the first to overlay it with a more user-friendly interface in the form of sense UI. It's since won favour with critics and consumers alike-three of the five top-selling UK mobiles were HTC's last month-so it's only logical...

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6 Technologies that Will Stick Around

6. Media Players Somehow, the portable MP3 player is one of the few gadgets to defy the pending one device-to-rule-the-all convergence. Why? Smaer non-pjone form factors, jogging, and simplicity, for starters. All we know is that Apple sold a whopping 17 million iPods in the fourth qurter of 2010, thet's 3 milion more MP3 players than iPhones. 5. Landline Telephone   More and more people are ditching their landlines, but they'll never go away entirely. Service is cheap, call quality is reliable, and given how easy it is to overload mobile networks, they'll probably work better in case of an emergency. And we don't see business and corporations...

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Tips of Buying and Using iPad 2

- The "3G" models of the iPad 2 are avalaible in separate versions for Verizon (which uses a CDMA network) and AT&T (which uses a GSM network). Decide which network you want to use first, and then buy the appropriate version. They are not interchangeable! - The personal hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 requires an approriate contract from your wireless provider. Make sure you really want it before spending the extra money on the contract. - The white version of the iPhone has been delayed repeteadly, allegedly because the white casing allowed too much light inside the device, affecting the camera. You might want to wait until users comment...

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6 Technologies That Are Destined to Be Disappear

6. Handheld Gaming Consoles   At some point in the near future, all of our kids will carry smartphones, and they'll find the notion of lugging around a second handheld device preposterous and antiquated. If we were Nintendo, we'd start looking into Android and iOS development today. 5. Pre-Recorded Physical Media   Obsolescence has already created the CD. Soon, the media swallowing black hole will demolish DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The only real question is how fast it will happen. Our call? Five years. 4. Consumer-Level Hard Drives   Solid-state and other memory-based drives are one threat for mechanical drives, but the bigger...

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Portable Brain Tumor Treatment System Kills Cancer While You Take Out The Trash

We've seen robots that perform brain surgery and lasers that cook tumors, and now a team of researchers are well on their way to bringing mobility to the battle against brain cancer. The NovoTTF-100A, which just received FDA approval, is basically a set of insulated electrodes, attached to an electronic box, that pumps low intensity electrical fields to the site of a freshly diagnosed GBM (glioblastoma multiforme) tumor. The fields, known as Tumor Treatment Fields (TTF), play off the electrically charged elements of cancer cells to stunt the tumor's growth, and may in some cases actually reverse it. A recent test of the system showed comparable...

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