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If you like the idea of flashing an Apple iPad around Blighty before the rest of the fanboys and girls but would rather not have to fly stateside to make it so then here’s the answer my gadgety faithful.

Slip in your order to www.bundlebox.com from right now because pre-ordering is now on over the pond. No need to wait for that pesky UK release date!

BundleBox, if you’re not familiar with the name, was set up by former Google exec Andre Schmidt last year and lets UK consumers buy from any US website. It’s basically an online transatlantic shopping service that lets us in the UK register for a free USA postal address meaning that we can sign on to the pre-order service despite the current US residency restriction.

Just simply sign up to Bundlebox, select its ‘Buy for Me’ service and order and pay for your iPad.

Because the iPad counts as an “automatic data processing machine” under customs rules, it’s import duty free – which all adds up to the 16GB WiFi version costing £465.20, including all shipping costs and VAT.

Tempted? Or are you thinking about buying a different tablet?

Let me know :)

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You’ve probably seen Toy Story right?

Even if you’ve somehow managed to avoid the computer generated animated flick you may have played with those cheap green plastic soldiers – if you happen to be a certain cousin of mine you probably also set fire to them at some point too!

Well, the genii at LEGO have only gone and released mini-fig versions of the little green GI’s!

They even come complete with removable stands. There’s even a 3″ long Jeep and a stretcher.

The £9.99 pack contains:

  • 4 Army Men minifigures, jeep and stretcher
  • Soldiers’ jeep equipped with spare tyre

Go here and buy at least one pack now!

That’s an order soldier!! Or is that a soldier order?………..

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Map2 – The London Paper Map That has Zoom Function!

January 24, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok – hands up all those with touchscreen phones that now get confused when attempting to navigate a regular mobile?
Well, I’m guessing it’s the same when looking at one of those old-fashioned paper maps.
You can see where you want to be but no matter how much you pinch at the paper it does not zoom!
Here’s [...]

BT Infinity – Superfast Optic Fibre Broadband Comes to 4 Million UK Homes

January 22, 2010 Click to read more →
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BT has hopped onto the fibre-optic super highway!
BT Inifinity is aiming to nibble at Virgin Media’s pie with the launch of its first super-fast broadband service which is set to arrive early next week.
BT Infinity will offer 40Mb per second speed broadband from a choice of two different price plans.
The cheapest Infinity package [...]

Still Not Sure Which Gaming Console is the Best, Most Reliable or Played Mostly by Girls? Infographic Time!

January 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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There it is in its multi-font, easy read format.
What’s not to like about infographics – especially when about gaming consoles?
How many of you had your Xbox 360 give you the RRoD?
Who has NEVER played a Mario game?
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Apple iPhone 3GS, Google Nexus One, Moto Droid and Palm Pre Compared

January 7, 2010 Click to read more →
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If your head is spinning with details and specs of the four phones above then thank Billshrink for the complete comparison break-down.
Billshrink has compared the main specifications and the cost of ownership of the Google, Apple, Palm and Motorola blowers. The cost of ownership may be more important and even a deciding factor in [...]

My Essential Blogging Gadgets from 2009?

December 31, 2009 Click to read more →
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As I write this, 2009 is coming to a close. I thought it would be fun to look back at all the great gadgets that we bought, played with, and still love. For this article I focused on the gadgets I used for blogging, but I would love to hear about your favorite gadgets of [...]

Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover and Others Design Santa’s Next Gen Sleigh

December 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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Everyone, even gadgety boys and girls, would describe Santa’s mode of transport as being wood-based and reindeer-powered.
Even though he has to travel at 1,000 km per second to get to each and every home of every good boy and girl on this planet.
You’d think that someone that can get all those gifts to all those [...]

Boxee Box – Possibly the Funkiest HD Network Media Streamer

December 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’ve been messing around with the cool n quirky Boxee software and am digging how it works and does its thing.
I know it’s been out for a while but the reason for this interest is the equally funky looking custom media player that they’ve just unleashed.
What this Boxee Box will do, apart from being great [...]

Nokia N900 Delayed by Success

November 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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Have you been patiently awaiting the arrival of your Nokia N900 after loyally preordering it earlier this month?
It appears that the new Nokia has been hit by its own success and now you’ll have to add another week to your wait.
If you don’t quite remember what makes this handset so enticing the N900 runs on [...]

Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! Mozilla Browser Keeps Growing

November 10, 2009 Click to read more →
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It’s hard to believe that 5 years has flown by.
But it was back in 2004 when the not-for-profit Mozilla, then with 12 employees and a handful of volunteers decided to take on Microsoft in the battle of the browsers.
Flash-forward to now and that same company has a 23% worldwide market share and has even [...]

Nokia X6 Touchscreen Music Mobile Arrives With Rhianna Concert

November 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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It had been whispered that the Nokia X6 music phone would see the shelves this year but now it seems there’s a fairly fixed date.
Word comes from the official Nokia blog Nokia Conversations – apparently the touchscreen looker will be made available globally on 16 November.
This date has been planned to cunningly coincide with Rihanna-ah-ah-eh-eh’s [...]

iPhone eBooks and eReaders out Gun Games for First Time

November 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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For anyone thinking that reading a book on a small screen is a bad idea and the power of paper should never be overlooked then be prepared to rethink.
Whilst the Kindle, Sony Reader, Cool-er and even Alex are pretty certain of the future; Apple’s iPhone has stepped in with its own proof.
The obvious advantage with [...]

Layar – The Mobile Augmented Reality App For Android and iPhone

October 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Layar is another Augmented Reality app but, because it allows third-party developers to contribute ‘layers’ to their platform, it stands out from the rest such as Kooaba.
You see – most other AR apps pull their data from search engines, Wikipedia or review-based sites.
Layar’s intuative interface has four clear sections that list layers by name [...]

Nintendo of America Asks: Who is Sony’s PSP Go For?

October 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Christmas battle has commenced and Nintendo gaffer, Reggie Fils–Aime, has thrown of his gloves and slapped the Sony PSPgo firmly across the chops.
Reggie is known for telling it like he sees it – while he was having a go at the go he also took a quick swipe at the iPod Touch.
The PSPgo has [...]

Sony PSP Go Goes Down in UK – Again!

October 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony’s new “premium” handheld gaming and multi-media device, AKA PSPGo has been dropped in price by another source here in the UK.
Yup, following Tesco’s preorder price point, none other than Amazon have done the deed and dropped the Sony PSP Go! Console to £199.
So – is that it for the “aspirational” pricing as several UK [...]

Amazon Kindle Coming Too Late to UK

October 1, 2009 Click to read more →
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2 years.
That’s almost half a century in tech years.
But that’s how long it’s taken for Amazon to spring their eBook reader over to the UK.
Yup – it sounds like we might finally be graced by the presence of Kindle 2 – but do we need it now?
It’s not like we’ve all been forced to keep [...]

Tesco Direct Makes Sony PSP Go 11% Cheaper – Every Little Helps

August 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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That’s right – the Supermarket chain has cut Sony’s RRP for the handheld gaming jukebox that lands in October.
The PSP Go has a pencilled price tag of £225 but Tesco Direct is listing the PSP Go on its site at a pre-order price of £199.97 – that makes it at an 11 percent discount even [...]

Amazon Kindle in the UK for Christmas – Chris Kindle?

July 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Amazon Kindle could possibly hit the UK in time for Crimbo according to reports out in the interweblogosphere.
Perhaps nudged on at the release of Border’s Elonex e-Reader, Mobile Today reports that Amazon is “frantically working on having the Kindle ready for launch before Christmas 2009″. Deals are in place with book publishers, as are [...]

Wolfram Alpha Opens on 18th May

May 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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The date has now been set for the launch of Wolfram Alpha, the Google-baiting search engine.
In a blog post, the company has confirmed: “We plan to launch late next week, with the official date now set for May 18″.
As y’all should know by know, Wolfram Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” created by British [...]