Sony unveiled a prototype of a 3D-enabled Vaio laptop at the IFA consumer electronics conference in Berlin this week, which it said will be available in the spring of 2011. The 16-inch screen laptop will use similar technology to Sony's Bravia TVs, company officials said. Users will be able to switch between 2D and 3D with the touch of a button.

According to a Business Wire press release, Nintendo will be reducing the pricing of its Nintendo DSi and DSi XL portable gaming systems on September 12. The release reads: “Effective Sept. 12, the new suggested retail price of the Nintendo DSi system will be $149.99, while the new suggested retail price for the Nintendo DSi XL system will be $169.99.”

IBM recently revealed some details of its new 5.2GHz microprocessor chip, but consumers shouldn't bother saving their pennies to get one. The z196, which will be at the heart of the company's new Z-series mainframes. Even if you could convince them to sell you a mainframe, it would likely break the bank at around $1 million.

Toshiba is to make an announcement later today about a data storage breakthrough, which is set to give users significantly higher capacity hard drives.

A DARPA-funded processor start-up has made bold claims about a new kind of processor that computes using probabilities, rather than the traditional ones and zeroes of conventional processors. Lyric Semiconductor, an MIT spin-off, claims that its probabilistic processors could speed up some kinds of computation by a factor of a thousand.

If the Wii and its motion control heralded a paradigm shift in gaming then Nintendo will be hoping that the 3DS – the 3D version of the DS - repeats the trick and blows the market wide open once more. I recently had some hands-on time with 3DS and was hugely impressed, if not quite as blown away as I had expected.

Flash is faster, cooler and uses less power, but there's one little problem that keeps it from ever really replacing spinning disks.

Laptop makers including Acer and Asustek are going to back an IEEE power supply standard. The IEEE PSU standard has been mooted to stop power supply manufacturers from building different adapters for different products. It wants to develop a universal power adapter that can be switched between devices and reused again and again.

Seagate has rolled out the world's first external hard drive to exceed two terabytes of storage capacity. Featuring 3TB, the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk introduced Tuesday will enable users to store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 computer games, countless hours of music tracks, or thousands of digital photos, the company said.

A recent paper written by Intel and presented to the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in France claims that Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280 GPU is only 14x faster than its Core i7 960 processor. The paper attempts to debunk claims made by Nvidia developers who saw a 100x performance improvement in some application kernels using CUDA when compared to running them on a CPU.

The new Xbox 360 was unveiled officially during E3 this week on somewhere a geek has already modded it and torn the thing down for us to ogle. Does anyone else out there really want to call this thing the Xbox 360 Slim?

A tipster sent us an info sheet on Microsoft's new slimmer Xbox 360. Of most interest to us was the spec sheet, with some notable highlights: support for Kensington Locks, and dimensions.

With E3 just a few days away it's no surprise that leaks regarding what will be unveiled at the show are coming thick and fast. Although we file most under 'rumour and speculation', the news that there could be new PS3 models on the horizon does seem to have legs.

As you may well know, it is the birthday of Dennis Gabor. We reported to you this morning that Google is celebrating this in the way of a Doodle on its homepage. We discussed the fact that he was the inventor of Holography, which the physicist released to the world in 1947.

Considering that it uses a fat-tipped felt-tip pen, this Lego printer makes a surprisingly detailed image. That's really missing the point, though: This is a frackin' Lego machine that can draw!

AMD's plan to integrate the CPU and GPU on to one die appears to be on track for 2011, judging by a demonstration given by Rick Bergman, senior vice president of the AMD products group, to assembled press at COMPUTEX 2010.

After 3D movies and 3D TVs, it's time for computers to go into the third dimension. Companies such as MSI and Asus will be showing 3D PCs at Computex, a huge trade show for manufacturers of PCs and PC components held every year in Taipei, Taiwan. This year, Computex runs from 1 - 5 June.

Both Intel and Qualcomm have launched new processors at this month's Computex event in Taipei. First up was Intel, with its new Oak Trail, Tunnel Creek and Canoe Lake processor lines.

China is ramping up efforts to become the world's supercomputing superpower. Its Nebulae machine at the National Super Computer Center in Shenzhen, was ranked second on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list.

Storage manufacturer Seagate is set to announce the launch of a "game-changing" device that can more than double a computer's performance on the 26th of May during a webcast launch.