Several weeks ago the Nintendo 3DS was announce. The 3DS is a portable handheld from the DS range that brings 3D to the small screen. One of the surprising features of the 3DS was it’s ability (supposedly) to provide 3D imagery without the use of glasses.

When we first heard the announcement it was mentioned that we should see it in about a years time. We now hear that the Nintendo 3DS could be joining us as early as October this year. It is expected that an official announcement will be made at E3.

It is unclear at the moment why the Nintendo 3DS is being launched 6 months before the expected date.

“In my experience, you don’t launch a product that early to Christmas unless you’re confident in it – and going to spend a lot of money on it. We’re reassured that Nintendo is going to give it some decent backing in Q4.”

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The Henge Dock is designed to hold a MacBook or MacBook Pro and allow it to be connected up to an external monitor.

The dock has all cables attached to it so that when docking the device it automatically connects up to your external screen.

Henge Dock has been made compatible with several MacBook Pro models which includes a 13 inch, 15 inch and 17 inch unibody varients as well as the regular MacBook. Please note that each model variant needs a slightly different dock as the one dock only fits the MacBook is was designed to fit. [Read more…]

Check out the 64 Boy. Someone spent around 80 hours hacking apart an N64, Gamecube controller and various other gadgets to build a portable N64.

The 64 Boy has a number of features that includes an output port for extra controllers to be used as well as sending the signal out to a TV.

It appears that it plays all games and is completely unique. If you are interested in buying it, check out the Youtube video details where information is provided. At the time of writing this, it is still available to buy. [Read more…]

HTC have revealed that they are working on a tablet device that will run the Google Android operating system. The information about this came from MD Quinton Leigh who confirmed a tablet device.

The MD also revealed that the HTC branded tablet might not be a pure iteration in terms of the form factor and the gadget should be available by the middle of 2011.

There is little known about the tablet at the moment other than it is believed to have 1080p recording capabilities and 5.1 surround sound output. [Read more…]

We’ve seen a few 3D printed objects before at gadgetvenue and have been impressed with the progress made in terms of companies being able to print in more than 1 material at a time.

The next material to be added to the list is glass which joins stainless steel, ABS, acrylic, sandstone and other various plastics.

Shapeways are a company who are now offering clients the ability to print 3D objects in glass although it’s not as straight forwards as throwing them a model and them whipping it through a printer for an hour or so. In terms of glass the process is a little longer that uses recycled glass powder that is placed on a mat a layer at a time. This is then mixed with a binder and then baked to harden it up a little. The remaining white power is moved at which point the object is heated up to 750 degrees C in a kiln to make it in to solid glass. [Read more…]

Two firmware updates are hitting the 27 inch iMac today that fixes three issues on the Apple [AAPL] devices.

The first update is as follows…

27-inch iMac EFI FW Update 1.0, weighing in at 2.1 MB and requiring Mac OS X 10.6.3, is recommended for all quad-core 27-inch iMacs and addresses a pair of issues related to high processor usage and display backlighting.

– Resolves an issue that sometimes caused high processor utilization while playing audio through the headphone output mini-jack.

– Resolves an issue that prevented the display backlight from turning on after powering on the iMac.
The 27-inch iMacs are not the only current Mac models to have experienced problems with processor performance during audio-related tasks, as Apple’s Mac Pro line received a software update in mid-February to address its own issues with heat and performance while handling audio-related tasks.

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The Doxie is a portable scanner that was first spotted back at CES 2010 in January.

The scanner costs $129 and is capable of capturing crisp scans of images which is partly due to some patented scanning technology that the company have used within the Doxie.

The Doxie is capable of scanning direct to the web allowing you to easily store documents in Google Docs and images on your Flickr account. Evernote is also available to connect to direct from the scanner allowing you to keep organised. [Read more…]

The Alex eReader (long awaited eReader) will be shipping today according to a press release published yesterday.

The Alex eReader is a dual screen eReader device that has an eInk screen on the top side with a smaller colour LCD touchscreen on the lower side. This allows users to scan through books on the quicker screen but then read on a clearer screen to conserve battery life.

The device weighs just 11 ounces and runs the Android operating system. Support for eBooks in various formats is also included. The list indicates that EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT formats are compatible with the reader.

The first model that will ship will connect to the book store using WiFi only. Later this year it was announced that a 3G version will be launched along with an EVDO/CDMA variant. [Read more…]

Super Talent have announced a new range of Value SSDs that aim to bring solid state drives at value prices to users.

Four new SSD’s have been created which include 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities where speeds reached are around 90MB/s in terms of read speed and 30MB/s for write speeds.

The 8GB model starts at just $65 and although you’ll struggle to get a new operating system on there (such as Windows 7 or even Vista) it certainly would work for lesser requirements, or for speedy access when wanting to play games. [Read more…]

The Drobo FS is a device that allows you to easily share files amongst people on a home or office network. The Drobo FS was built with the purpose of delivering the best file sharing experience for home and office users.

‘This is the decade of being connected, no matter where you are or what kind of data you are storing. The Drobo FS was designed to best serve the needs of our customers with file sharing needs from small offices and home offices to connected homes

BeyondRAID technology has been built in to the Drobo FS providing protection for data stored within the device. Up to five hard drives can be installed on the device and if configured in a RAID format, it allows for up to two simultaneous drive failures keeping data safe on the other three drives. [Read more…]

Lenovo have announced the Lenovo C200 all-in-one computer today. The C200 has an 18.5 inch HD display in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The device is powered by an NVIDIA ION graphics processor with up to 256MB of RAM.

The all-in-one C200 is touchscreen, although not multitouch, and the computer runs an Intel Atom Dual Core D510 processor. Inside you’ll find a DVD reader and writer along with stereo speakers. A built in webcam allows for conference calls to be made. The webcam is built by Lenovo and is their High-Sense Webcam that has a large lens and allows for decent video to be captured even when lighting situations are not the best. [Read more…]

We have mentioned a few different ways of removing scratches from CD’s and DVD’s. Some require the use of an egg and a cloth to make some sort of funky cleaning material, while others come in the form of a kit you can buy from sites such as Amazon.

This next one is another custom one that makes use of Vaseline to fill the scratches in. You basically need a cloth, Vaseline and a couple of other materials and simply clean off the CD to make it grease and dust free. Once done you rub the materials over the disk and the gaps are filled in. [Read more…]