Map provider Whereis has teamed up with app maker Sygic to unveil Australia's first turn by turn map guidance app for the iPhone; more than a few years after similar programs were unveiled on competing Nokia smartphones.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has told 6000 university graduates at a commencement speech that they need to embrace their human connections and step away from the computer and turn off their phones

Google have announced that they will release free turn-by-turn map navigation for Android phones, making us wonder whether phone GPS is finally good enough to replace dedicated in-car devices

We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.

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?

Let’s be honest, many webcams are unruly pieces of junk - ready to turn real life into juddery flashes of un-naturalistic motion. This one is a class act.

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.

Garmin have launched an interesting hybrid device: a GPS for both land and sea. The Garmin GPSMAP 620 not only works with marine charts, but also street and topographic maps.

We road tested the futuristic Azentek SmartMirror and got the feeling that it could be the next big GPS must-have or the next big safety hazard.

We’ve had a sneak peak at the big camera expo in Brisbane this week to see what’s in store for photographers this year.

No, it’s not that universal remote hack that turns your PSP into a remote control, although that's pretty cool in itself. This little gizmo is even better - you can now watch your favourite telly show overseas on a PSP.

Taking a page out of the popular science fiction series, scientists have managed to turn aluminium into a new transparent form of matter, after it was placed under extreme ultraviolent radiation.

With the death of HD-DVD the floodgates have opened on Blu-Ray notebooks. Now its Asus' turn with one of the most powerful multimedia laptops we've ever seen.

'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.

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

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

At $190,000, Bang and Olufsen 103" BeoVision4 TV is among the world's most expensive consumer models ever produced and it's so incredibly large, you might just need a crane to get into your home

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

A new technology that physically directs your body is about to make its world debut at the upcoming Siggraph conference

Research institution MIT are well on their way to developing one of the world's most sought after electric vehicles: a car with 320km range, 161 km/h top speed and a rapid recharge system that takes just 10 minutes to charge.