3D print your own house Print a house? With a 3D printer? Wait, what? 3D printinghas to be one of the most exciting and incredible inventions since sliced bread, but there are still things it has yet to achieve. Well, in three weeks time, we can at least tick off the item labelled “print a house”. We kid you not,London-based studio Softkill Designwill be building a 3D printed humble abode it calls Protohouse 1....
3D TV is dead but 4K is the real deal, says BBC controller According to the Beeb’s Mark Harrison, CES 2013 indicates that 4K is more important than 3D will ever be 3D TV is dead. At least that’s the view of BBC North controller Mark Harrison, reporting on his impressions of CES 2013 for Broadcast. Harrison says one important truth from this year’s expo is that “everyone has finally accepted that 3D TV is dead”....
4G confirmed for Samsung Galaxy S4 EE confirms what we’ve been expecting by tweeting that the “Next Galaxy” will support superfast LTE data Here’s a piece of news that will surprise nobody: theSamsung Galaxy S4will support 4G LTE superfast data here in the UK. Network EE tweeted confirmation earlier this morning, saying that the “Next Galaxy” was coming to 4GEE and posting alinkto their site at which you can register your interest in the phone....
4G: Three says it won’t charge a premium EE watch out – the Three network is promising that its 4G LTE will be available at current standard prices Three has fired a shot across EE’s bows by promising that its forthcoming “Ultrafast” 4G service won’t be priced at a premium – in fact, it’ll be available on standard Three plans at no extra cost. Three says that any customer with a 4G LTE-ready phone or tablet will be able to use the Ultrafast 4G network without needing to swap SIMs or price plans; essentially, LTE will become standard for all Three users....
5 of the best 80s-inspired gadgets The decade that fashion forgot? Not for us. Rewrite history with these ’80s-style gadgets Swatch Touch £100eu-shop.swatch.com In the early ’80s, analogue watches, along with lunch, were for wimps. That soon changed with the Swatch, which flew in from Switzerland in an array of gaudy colours and became so popular that wearing three at a time was socially acceptable. The Touch sees the range redone for the ‘prod and slide’ generation, with stylised numbers, a backlit display and touchscreen swipes to six functions including, of course, the hourly beep....
5 of the best new audio gadgets Here’s our pick of the best speakers, amps, headphones and hi-fi’s at the Bristol Sound & Vision show 2012. Warning: they don’t come cheap Ming Da MC84-C11£850 Like the look ofSamsung’s valve audio dock? Well check out this steam punk-styled beauty from Ming Da. The stereo amp also doubles up as an iPod dock plus there’s a USB input and twin analogue inputs and up to 15W per channel stereo performance....
Acer CloudMobile to launch at MWC The first Cloud smartphone from Acer will be an Android 4.1-toting dual-core beauty Acer is to step into the smartphone battlefield with its own stunner of a mobile called CloudMobile atMobile World Congress, according toDigiTimes. So far the Acer CloudMobile’s specs are rumoured to include a qHD 4.3in screen, 1.5GHz dual-core heart and Android 4.1 OS, not to mention a glossy premium design. The big sell is that it wall have access to Acer’s Cloud servers meaning your storage capacity is immediatly vaster than the phone itself....
