From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

In another cunning attempt to convince the world that playing 16-colour 90s style point and click adventure gaming is still a worthwhile pursuit, Lucasarts and Steam are re-releasing eight classic games

Microsoft have committed to spending $US80m on 'Bing' advertising against other search engines. Basically, they want to convince you that Google and Yahoo aren't worth your precious search time.

We've seen the new Wolverine film and we're pretty sure it's going to divide audiences. How does it compare to the rest of the series? The quality of the effects? The acting? The story? We've got the quick answers.

Will or won't Gears of War 2 be appearing on the PC? As the web fury grows, we contacted the people behind the game to get some answers, and a nice photo gallery.

High-profile short films from around the world are now getting made on DSLR cameras, thanks to rapidly improving sensors and prices. Judge for yourself, with these five videos made with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.

Forget the financial crisis, the luxury Meridian Sooloos music player can even suggest the right music depending on your very mood, although jealousy and envy wasn't high on their list when we checked.

The new browser looks good at first glance, but how does it stand up against Firefox and Microsoft in terms of speed?

The Torrent Droid app uses photographs of DVD barcodes to search for films via BitTorent and then remotely synchronise the download via your home computer. Has piracy ever been easier?

It's uber fast, and it's more storage than you'll find in most hard drive laptops. Make way for one of the biggest laptop upgrades you'll see for a while.

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

Remakes don't always go down well, but JJ Abram's Star Trek is the rare example that defies expectations and delivers. Daniel Long boarded the new Enterprise and survived to tell the story.

We rank the top 7 old school video game theme songs of all time, with a little help from Youtube.

Microchip controlled bullets that can fly at pre-calculated distances to take out enemies hiding deep inside their bunkers, are now a battlefield possibility thanks to a new weapon technology

Has a war between humans and machines already begun? A Swedish factory worker tried to fight back against a robot bearing large mechanical arms, when it attacked him unexpectantly.

The US military is working on a portable hacking device that would allow soldiers untrained and unskilled in the art of cyber warfare to infiltrate enemy networks at the click of a few buttons.

Finally, it’s here – the James Bond of hard drives. The Seagate BlackArmour drive is protected by a brute strength AES security algorithm based on the highest Rijndael cipher keys available (256bit) that 'apparantly' can’t be cracked, ever.

We've got the latest movie trailers from some of the most anticipated films of the year. Cast your critical eye over Watchmen, the new Transformers and others

Terminator Salvation is much better than the last film in the series, but ultimately fails to connect with its audience. The effects and visuals are great, but the human characters pale in comparison to the lethal robots.