The world’s most expensive earphones have gone on sale for a massive $5,200.Made by specialist Belgian jeweller Casa Di, the blingtastic ear pieces are made from 18 carat gold and are encrusted with an impressive 118 diamonds. Each earphone weighs a relatively heavy 18grams and come with 59 diamonds each. The limited-edition run are on [...]

AMD has been talking about CPU and GPU ‘fusion’ for many months now as they believe using both a processor and a graphics card is the way of the future. Today that reality has come one step closer with the announcement of a new technology brand called ATI Stream. It has been known for a couple years now that graphics [...]

Akai is now shipping its EWI USB – a MIDI wind controller that’s said to enable anyone, regardless of experience, to create expressive wind instrument parts in their computer.
The device has fingering modes for the saxophone, flute and oboe. Other key features include a five-octave range, breath modulation with adjustable threshold, pitch bend, adjustable vibrato, [...]

Want to share your music when you’re out and about? Sure, you could ask your friends to try on your crusty headphones, or you could reach into your pocket and pull out a pair of these tiny speakers. XPod Active Sound speakers could be the smallest portable speakers I’ve seen yet. Measuring in at just [...]

A credit card with its own LCD display and keypad has been unveiled. Visa says the card will cut down on online shopping fraud. It will be tested in Britain early next year by the company MBNA.Each card, identical in size and shape to current ones, has a 12-button keypad and a display powered by [...]

Space-hungry India is planning to launch an improved version of Google Earth using its own satellite system, just weeks after conquering the moon. Its space agency hopes to unveil a prototype of Bhuvan - the Sanskrit for Earth - by December and launch the programme to the public by March.Officials claim the mapping system will [...]

Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn’t do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC’s first WiMAX effort here would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD. The previously-seen T8920 has turned out to be the MAX 4G, an 800 x 480 monster [...]

Hard to believe that a company the size and stature of Microsoft hasn’t had an online store to call its home — not even a quirky collection of “Bill Gates is my homeboy” CafePress t-shirts and mousepads. The newly launched Microsoft Store solves that, however, with its many store-like properties. Therein you can find all [...]