The latest Avatar trailer takes a closer look at the battle tech behind the film - but we can't help compare it to James Cameron's Aliens in tone and style.

Make this year’s biggest games shine with glorious high-detail, thumping sound and the best accessories

The latest high-tech gadgetry for when you’re tangling with nature

Dell has announced its first rugged laptop with a multitouch display. Designed to meet military standards, this is the laptop for you if you like to tangle with nature.

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..

The US Army has teamed up with a motion gaming company to create a highly realistic style of gameplay that can actually paralyse muscles during gameplay

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Hadron Collider for six years.

Pentagon research firm DARPA have discovered a new way to radio-control insects using neural transmitters that trigger muscle changes within the insect. Watch the video of zombie insects being controlled here.

An unorthodox race in South Africa has revealed that it is faster to transmit 4GB of data via carrier pigeon than it is to send it over the country's main ADSL services.

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

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.

Wondering what to do with your tax return? Here's our list of "if-only" technology products that might be in your reach after your tax return.

We attended the Sydney press conference of the upcoming blockbuster GI:Joe and learnt about their Twitter use, their feelings on Internet fanboys and the inspiration behind some of the military tech on display in the film

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

A rough, tough laptop with serious attitude, but its keyboard proves an Achilles heel.

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

Now you see it, now you don't. Hong Kong researchers are one step closer to creating a cloak of illusion that will have the ability to make one object look like another via "metameterials" and light bending.

As neural controllers grow in popularity, so will hackers attempts to create malicious code to potentially corrupt, control and infiltrate our brains. So, what are the experts doing about it?

IT security firm IronKey has taken the wraps off what it promises to be the most secure Flash drive in the world..

Backroom boffins in the US Army have decided that robots will be better at warfare if they have a built in guilt system.