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Commodore 64 Revived with New Powers and Performance

by Jay Garrett on March 19, 2010

Every geek of a certain age will remember the now classic Commodore 64.

It was at the height of 8 bit technology when it appeared in 1982 and over the following 12 years 17 million of the them were sold!

The new C64 will be sporting Intel’s 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities upto 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. Also included are a DVD-RW drive, a touchpad, four USB ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) port to connect monitors – all this is squeezed into the all-in-one’s keyboard that measures 17.5 inches (44 cm) wide and 2 inches (0.5 cm) tall.

Commodore said. “It’s designed to take up far less room — and use far less energy — than any other desktop computer,” Commodore USA said. The PC will run the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Commodore USA’s online store is due to open June 1 offering the new edition. Obviously they’re hoping that trading on the licensed Commodore name will envoke all those fond memories.

Is it working for you?

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Victorinox Challenges UK Hackers to Win £100,000 and Prove They’re Better Than USA

by Jay Garrett on March 18, 2010

Victorinox, makers of the Swiss Army Knife, have a gadgety challenge for all you hackers and programmers.

They are launching a unique gadget specifically designed to keep your valuable and confidential documents private, The Victorinox Secure Pro and they’re boasting that it’s “completely un-hackable”.

Victorinox are so sure of themselves that they’re waving a £100,000 prize in front of those that reckon anything can be hacked.

Our Stateside cousins failed to break into it at CES earlier this year so let’s see if the UK can do this thing within the allotted two hours!

Here’s the where and when:

Thursday 25 March
8.30am
London Flagship Store
95-96 New Bond Street
London

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Get Apple iPad in UK Before Anyone else Without Leaving the Country

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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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. [...]

Sony Stop Making OLED TV’s – Will Still Sell Them to Westerners

February 16, 2010 Click to read more →
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Were you thinking that the televisual future was in the hands of OLED screens?
Sony thinks not and is halting its OLED TV production in Japan and will be ending sales once its existing stock runs out.
Sales will continue, however, in America and Europe.
Apparently the Sony XEL-1 11in OLED TV just wasn’t popular enough [...]

Apple iSlate Named and Shares Grow 145%

December 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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This could be the bestest practical joke in history or the new Apple tablet is going to be called the iSlate (one of the names that has been bounced around for a while).
As I’ve reported before, I’m expected a show-and-tell in a few weeks and everything does seem to be slotting into place.
It appears that [...]

Roddler – The Hot Rod Pram That Makes You Wanna Make a Baby

December 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yet another one of my friends is about to become a dad.
Now, I’d like to think that if I became a parent I’d be more about what’s best for the kid rather than getting a trendy pushchair, or all-terrain buggy…….
But then I saw this on Kid Kustom USA’s site – it almost made me want [...]

Bought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Activision says Thanks 310 Million Times! CoD

November 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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You can’t have gotten through this week without hearing about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
I’ve not bothered mentioning it as everyone seemed to be doing that.
But I can’t fail mentioning this.
The latest episode of the popular shooty-shooty-death-kill game has experienced the biggest launch of an entertainment product in history!
It has managed to haul a [...]

New Small Panasonic LCD TV is Really a Digital Photoframe, CD Playing iPod Dock

November 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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First picture I saw of this little Panasonic lead me to believe that it was a neat portable LCD Television.
Gah – how wrong and foolish do I feel now?
What it is, in fact, is Panasonic’s new MW-10 “multimedia audio system photo frame”.
Not only will it show pictures held on either its 4GB of internal memory [...]

Foursquare Social Gaming Comes to London – Earn Points and Badges by Eating, Drinking and Partying Round the Capital

October 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Foursquare has announced that it’s bringing its location-based social networking game here to London.
The service that started in March awards points and badges for experiencing things in certain locations and is apparently quite the hit over in the USA but remains pretty much unknown on this side of the pond.
Foursquare is a location service-based social network/game.
It’s [...]

7digital Takes The Fight to iTunes on American and Canadian Soil

October 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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7digital will be a known name to those who legally download tunes here in the UK.
That will soon be changing – but in a good way.
The Great British MP3 download site has just thrown open its doors to the US of A taking on the might of iTunes.
Not only is 7digital taking on the huge [...]

Microsoft Stopping Zune HD Coming to the UK, Europe, Anywhere Outside the States

September 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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There had word on the street that Microsoft had no plans bring the Zune HD to France.
That has escalated to the point that the Zune wont even break the US borders!
Ars Technica went direct to Redmond to find out if it’s true:
“For the time being the Zune HD device will remain US only,” a [...]

Take The Internet Addiction Quiz – You May Need a Session at reStart

August 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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I have to admit – sometimes I think I spend too much time on the puter – when I’m not on the puter I’m checking stuff on my iPhone.
Am I addicted?
Well, if I’m unsure, I can take the following questionnaire set up by reStart.
reStart is the first internet addiction treatment center of it’s kind in [...]

Samsung Reclaim – The Most Eco-Friendly Mobile Phone

August 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Stateside mobile operator Sprint has just announced what could quite possibly be the most eco-friendly blower yet.
The Samsung Reclaim is a QWERTY slider and is made from 80% recyclable materials, including bioplastics – it’s even painted green just in case you’re not convinced of its credentials!
Other than the paint the green continues in the [...]

Rizk Autos Brings the 1957 Aston Martin DBR2 Le Mans up-to-date [Stunning]

August 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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Aston Martins are great.
If you asked: “Jay; what’s your favourite Aston Martin?” – I couldn’t do it. It would be like asking a father which is his favourite child.
What I can say though is the 1957 Le Mans racer DBR2 would certainly feature in the top 5, even top 3!
It seems that Rizk Automobiles [...]

Panasonic DMC-FZ35 and FZ38 Released – It’s the Same Camera!

July 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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I have a soft spot for Panasonic cameras and now they’ve announced that it is updating its FZ28 model with a new version packing an 18x optical super zoom.
The new snapper was announced on Monday and is named the DMC-FZ35 in the US and the DMC-FZ38 in the UK – slightly confusing for the likes [...]

DARPA Make Hummingbird Robot Spy

July 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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You’ve got to hand it to DARPA – The brains working on tech for the Pentagon have some far-out ideas including this robotic hummingbird-based drone.
Could little hummingbird spies be helping in futuristic espionage? Not just yet…
Program manager Todd Hylton is aiming for “an approximately 10-gram aircraft that can hover for extended periods, can fly at [...]

Freeline Skates – Small Skateboards for Each Foot

June 3, 2009 Click to read more →
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Say hello to another way of killing yourself – Freeline Skates!
Well, that’s what I thought when I first spotted them. But then I’ve always been more of a BMX guy than a skater.
Designed in San Francisco, Freeline Skates are dual isolated skates produced to include elements of skate boards and inline skates. That spells death-trap [...]

Microsoft Zune HD Officially Announced

May 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Zune HD has just been made official, and it’s an OLED touchscreen PMP all pumped up and ready to do battle with the iPod touch.
So after all the rumours what’s the Zune HD packing?
Well, it shall be sporting a 3.3 inch, 480×272 OLED multitouch screen (Similar to the Sony X Series Walkman) and 720p [...]

T-Mobile Bigfoot Spotted – G1 v.2 Google Phone

May 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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When the Cupcake update for the G1 Googlephone was announced T-mobile also kinda mentioned a new Android handset without giving any real details.
Now, I reckon that it’s safe to assume that the particular beast in question is the T-Mobile G1 Bigfoot, discovered in leaked documents by TmoToday.
The phone is also going under the title of G1 v.2 so more [...]

Tweenbot Proves People Care – Heartwarming Fuzziness For Easter

April 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Get ready for the most touching story ever involving humans and a little robot called ‘tweenbot’.
The smiley faced cardboard-bodied happy-go-lucky bot has a flag stating its intended destination but the cute lil’ fella can only move forward so it relies on the kindness of strangers to guide it and help it out of tricky situations.
Tisch [...]

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