Samsung Europe executive Thomas Richter said the device will offer users "a new galaxy of possibilities" with features such as mobile video conferencing and a video chat function. The thin tablet device weighs 13.4oz and has a seven-inch touch screen.

The source code powering a USB modchip for the Playstation 3 has been released onto the web so that anyone can download and use it, making it now near-impossible to ban.

Good news for gadget-heads: Those self-lacing sneakers you might recall from "Back to the Future Part II" could actually hit shelves by 2015.

We've been waiting for this news ever since AMD bought ATI, but AMD today revealed that we probably won't see the ATI name in 2011, though we'll likely hear it for years to come.

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sues 11 companies, including Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, alleging they violated patents he owns.

The Google Lunar X Prize Lego Mindstorms Challenge competition seeks innovative robot designs to explore a Lego lunar surface.

Two iPhone developers have been slapped with a 10-page cease and desist order from the BBC for trying to create an app that would cache iPlayer content.

As part of London's Design Festival, Audi's bringing eight robotic arms out of the factory and putting them on show in Trafalgar Square, spelling out messages in light for the public.

The Galaxy Tab (or GT-P1000) has been the subject of some speculation recently, with the recent video of the Tab being used on a Sydney train making its way onto YouTube yesterday.

Take specially treated frog eggs, inject some insect RNA, and stick the concoction up a robot's nose to give the bot a keen sense of smell.

LG believes that it has what it takes to supplant the iPad as the most desired tablet on the market. Chang Ma, LG's vice president of marketing for its mobile-devices division, told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that his company's tablet bests Apple's offering.

The Spanair plane crash that killed 154 people two years ago on Friday may have been partly caused by malware, according to reports.

Intel's shock $7.68 billion acquisition of security firm McAfee left many wondering what the chipmaker is planning – and whether the deal is an overpriced mistake.

If Google is planning to launch a tablet device in the near future, it should bypass its embryonic Chrome OS and instead go with Android, the company's other mobile operating system that's taking the smartphone market by storm.

Legends abound about the Archimedes "death ray", constructed from giant mirrors, which he allegedly used during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC to set Roman ships ablaze. Now Green Power Science—the folks who brought us videos on how to build a solar shower—have set out to see whether the concept really works. So they decided to take on some pirates.

Keith, of tech blog BIT-101, got himself a new USB-microscope. And like any nerd with a new toy, he started pointing it at things around the house. Happily for us, Keith avoided magnifying the dog's fleas and instead turned his high-powered eye on the screens of his twin tablets, Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad.

LCD-TV prices in the US have risen sharply recently as new models are introduced and promotions die down, according to a report by iSuppli. Average prices for LCD-TVs in the US rose from $1,136 in July compared to $1,060 the previous month, an increase of 7.2 percent, which was the highest increase in a year.

Photographs on Fujifilm's new FinePix camera can be printed on special 3D paper, ready to stick in the family photo album or be instantly viewed on the camera's built-in display. Unlike the 3D films in cinemas, special glasses do not need to be worn to show the 3D image.

Intel Corp. has been chosen as a yet another company to create an exascale supercomputer prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The company will cooperate with SGI and will compete against Nvidia Corp., who had also been chosen to explore exascale supercomputing technology for DARPA.

The largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere will be built in Australia at Macarthur near Hamilton, 260km west of Melbourne, Victoria. Comprising 140 Vestas V112-3.0 MW wind turbine generators, the 420 MW Macarthur Wind Farm will have the capacity to power more than 220,000 average Victorian homes.