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

Will Xbox Live ads enhance the user experience, as Microsoft says? Also: real DSLRs vs high quality compacts, weird Russian monorails, and an intruiging rumor for Australian Star Wars fans

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

Remember Anakin Skywalker? Here he is, 10 years after. Also: Intel's power saving trick and why it might hurt your eyes, robotic motorcyclists, Monkey Island on the iPhone

Some of the wildest, weirdest and most useful gadgets and gizmos for kids - or big kids at heart

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.

Laser weaponry looks like becoming part of future army's arsenal, including non-lethal "flashes" designed to stop car drivers.

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.

A site that shows you how to do infra red photography. Also: Asimov's laws of robotics and why they matter, Earth is getting a Space Fence, and the next big netbook processor.

Intel's Atom platform may provide the backbone of today's netbooks, but with rivals emerging, Intel could find itself playing a smaller part in the future, as players such as Nvidia's Tegra take hold.

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

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

3D TVs, 3D cameras, 3D webcams, 3D movies – the world is adding a new dimension to its technology. Here’s what you need to know to pass the pub conversation test...

From movies and games to sporting events and even pornography, David Bayon explains why 3D displays are the next big thing.

The head of the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has told delegates at the ITU Telecom World 2009 conference that the next big war will most likely be fought online..

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

It is starting to look like things are going to heat up on the GPU front as Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head in the next month or so.

The announcement of a pair of 2GHz dual-core processors from ARM has drawn speculation over a new chip war with Intel in the netbook space, despite the fact that products based on the chips are not likely to appear for at least another year.

New backlighting technologies like LED and RGB Dynamic LED mean better a picture. Here's what you need to know