There are any number of reasons why you could be delayed by traffic congestion and up until now, there’s been little motorists could do about it. We've road-tested a traffic-equipped GPS for a week to see if it can help.

Wireless in-car connectivity centres are gaining popularity thanks to 3G and burgeoning 4G services. We take a look at a couple of the bigger examples and investigate how they're changing the way we drive.

Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

Do you remember Windows ME, the Sinclair C5, Zip disks or the Apple III? Early adopters usually pride themselves with getting the finest tech products first, but sometimes being first isn’t always best.

Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat with their new Natal Xbox motion controller, and we get flashbacks of Nintendo's Power Glove and shonky 90s virtual reality

'Meet Me' is the world’s first 3G dating service, and makes us wonder if meeting random people over your phone can turn awkward singles into mobile valentinos in just a few clicks.

The 3000km race outback race from Darwin to Adelaide will feature a number of green vehicles, but none as high profile as Internode CEO Simon Hackett's Tesla all-electric machine

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?

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

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.

Security and privacy advocates argue that RFID tags could make it easier for hackers to target our private information, as RFIDs permeate every facet of everyday life

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.

Sony’s new laptop sports a Blu-ray writer and one of Intel’s latest Penryn processors, but it’s overpriced.

Portable, attractive and affordable - HP haven't given up on pushing home media servers into Australian homes just yet. HP hopes that two new 1TB MediaSmart models will entice a new generation of users to give home servers a go

If MySpace has its own credit card, maybe other Web sites will follow. We gaze into a warped crystal ball to imagine how the Digg card and others might work.

NV CEO Anthony Cooke held up his arm and told the audience, “We’re seeing the evolution of a new generation of watches." But the more he waved his arm around and spoke into the watch, the more we couldn't stop thinking of spy comics.

Belkin’s N1 Vision is an eye catching wireless modem router that combines a sleek design profile with big speeds.

US based retailer Best Buy is asking job applicants for at least 250 Twitter followers, but fails to address just how the candidate found those followers

Hubble and Herschel aren't the only star gazers in the universe. New born stars have been sighted at the centre of our own galaxy with the help of NASA's six year-old infrared telescope, the Spitzer