nine years and 170,000 units sold. that’s what the current BWM R 1200 GS has achieved and with those figures, it has also become the name synonymous with adventure-touring bike. hence, developing a new successor would be one huge delicate task but that hasn’t stop the Motorrad folks from rolling out an all-new 2013 model. the 2013 BMW R 1200 GS rolls in with…
until the day a la-James Bond Lotus Esprit Submarine car become a commercial reality, we will have to content with this equally awesome Quadski from GIBBS. the name Quadski pretty much give away what this vehicle is really about: a quad bike on land and at a push of a button, transforms into a jet ski for the water in a matter of seconds. the Quadski is equipped with…
Kyocera is not usually a brand known for mobile phones outside of Japan. if you ask me, i’d say that i am more familiar with their photocopier machines than anything else. for the uninitiated, the Japanese firm have been making mobile phones for quite a while now and though unaware to us, the gai-jin, they are actually doing quite well. in fact, they have just announced a…
for most part, the invasion of iPhone almost seems unstoppable. it take cares of your appointment, your entertainment needs (movies, music and all), and it also sees to your reading needs. so why stop there? how about letting it be the control of your remote control toy trucks? joining Griffin’s HELO TC and HELO TC Assault is the duo Griffin MOTO TC Monster and Racer…
more often than not, a tech product is born out of how the makers’ perceived the product to be but not with the new V-MODA Crossfade M-100 Headphones. this pair of futuristic looking audio cans is the result of V-MODA’s unique crowd-sourced effort with inputs from hundreds of audiophiles, journalists, producers and renowned DJs around the world. to this end, V-MODA…
with the number of entrants into the action cam market, it is hard not for GoPro to take a shot, in this case, three shots back and show the rest who is the boss. though the GoPro Hero 3 lineup consists of three models, the one that caught our eyes is the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition. despite sporting a significantly smaller chassis, the Black Edition stands out with its 12.0-megapixel…
gone is the sinking cube and in comes a regular rectangular black box that says pretty much what it will do – a set-top DVR. the Boxee TV features a dual tuner that works with both unencrypted basic cable channels and over-the-air HD broadcasts. also packed inside this unassuming black box is a slick UI, preinstalled apps including Netflix, VUDU, Pandora, YouTube and…
it was not long ago that audiophile community cringes at the idea of streaming music over Bluetooth but that was then. with the latest Bluetooth 4.0 and apt-X audio coding technology introduced into Bluetooth stereo products, wireless streaming over Bluetooth is now almost indistinguishable from its wired counterpart – a cue for audiophile equipment maker to jump into…
we bet you didn’t think there’s anymore innovation in analog camera, do you? to be honest, we thought the same too but the king of modern day analog cameras, Lomography has proved us wrong with the BELAIR X 6-12, a new medium-format camera that captures 6×12 (hence, the namesake) sweet panoramic photos, 6×6 square, as well as 6×9 format photos…
computer mice – they are a humble and yet indispensable part of any desktop computing experience, well… at least that was before trackpad started to become ‘magical’. anyway, who would have thought that it can be anything more luxurious than a $199 gaming mouse? we bet you didn’t and neither did we but here it is, a mouse that cost €399, that’s around US$…
the moment you hear the name Unmonday, you know you are going to see something unusual. why not? even the name itself implies that or at least that’s what we thought. anyway, Unmonday is a Finland-based speaker firm that wants to reaffirm how audio should be delivered: completely wireless and expandable, wrapped in a single stylish, hexagon ceramic enclosure that’s…