Koss Striva headphones do away with your MP3 player The Wi-Fi streaming Striva Pro and Striva Tap headphones will be music to your ears MP3 players have been getting ever smaller – now they’re set to vanish altogether, with the Koss Striva range of Wi-Fi streaming headphones. TheKoss Strivarange is available in over-the-ear Striva Pro and in-ear Striva Tap flavours, both of which feature touch and gesture controls. Arrange your music into channels on theMyKoss....

LA Noire blooper reel shows off MotionScan tech Depth Analysis blooper reel reminds us of LA Noire’s eerily accurate facial animation While frantically tapping the action button to find clues, you may have forgotten how good LA Noire’s facial animations were. Luckily for you,Depth Analysis(the company behind all that clever technology) has posted a blooper reel on its website, showing off how its MotionScan tech captured the actors’ flubs captured during the making of the game....

Land Rover’s Nitride bike is worth its weight in gold The king of off-road motors has unveiled its latest pedal-powered mountain eater – a blinged-out, bespoke-built bike Land Rover makes bikes? Gold ones? Yes, Land Rover has made a few bikes in its time – but few as technically impressive as the Nitride. It’s finished in a PVD titanium nitride coating – the same material used to finish the Olympic torch....

LCD display the size of a contact lens, anyone? A breakthrough in LCD technology will pave the way for LCD displays you can wear on your eye Clever scientists from the Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST) of Ghent University have revealed a new curved LCD display that’s small enough to be embedded within a contact lens. Unlike existing LED displays of a similar size, the display technology allows anything from one pixel to many to be displayed on the surface – making it possible to display images like a dollar sign, as seen in the video above....

Lego Lord of the Rings release date revealed One set to rule them all, one set to find them, one set to bring them all and in the darkness bind them If you’re sitting in your hillside abode polishing your magical Orc blade replica then you’ll be just the sort of adventurer who’ll happily throw money at Lego’s newly announced Lord of the Rings collection. Melding together two of our very favourite things, the drool-inducing range includes sets ranging from Gandalf and his cart full of miniature Lego fireworks (priced at £12) all the way up to the £100 Lego Helm’s Deep set which comes complete with adorable blocky versions of our sword-swinging heroes and evil Uruk Hai invaders....

Leica announces X2 compact camera Leica is calling the X2 the next generation in compact digital cameras, and for the price it had better be TheLeica X1still doesn’t look outdated – if you ignore the cool retro design – yet already the Leica X2 has appeared. Looking just as gorgeous, the X2 is, according to Leica, the next generation in high-performance compact digital cameras. So what makes it better than theX1?...

Leica leaks two cameras The camera heavyweight Leica has leaked an SLR-styled superzoom and a compact shooter just as Photokina approaches No sooner had we finished writing a story about a leakedPanasonic Lumia GH3, than two Leicas dribbled onto our desks. All thanks to the impending Photokina event, from September 18th, putting pressure on the already bursting camera secrets vault. There are few details on the Leicas but it looks like one is a super-slim compact, and the other is a superzoom with an SLR styled body....