A German government minister said Friday he was joining in a boycott of Nokia mobile phones after the Finnish manufacturer announced it was closing Germany's last surviving wireless handset factory. Horst Seehofer, the German agriculture minister, told reporters in Berlin that he was changing to another brand of mobile phone "because I don't like the way they are doing this." A trade union leader in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Dietmar Muscheid, had said the previous day that German shoppers should...

JoyofTech is back and this time they take on the Macbook Air. Joyoftech...

From the makers of Dream DX comes the Dream Cat, which does not purr but talks. Yes the dream cat is preloaded with 333 words (Japanese) and instead of a meow responds to actions with words. It has sensors over its body and depending where you touch it responds accordingly. A gentle pat on the head will give a very cute response and if you interact with it after a long time it gets angry. The Dream cat is...

UK based agency 'The Alternative' has developed a gesture based interaction screen for Orange. It is for the first time that such a technology is showcased to the general public says a spokesman for the agency. The large projected image has a touch free interface and provides users a new way to activate news, film clips and music videos....

The Dream DX showcased at the Tokyo Toy Forum is a result of strong demand for a robotic dig. Unlike its counterpart the 'Aibo' it is very realistic, it can move its eyes, open its mouth, go back and forth and wag its tails. It has an audio recognition feature so it will cutely wag its tail when you say 'good boy'. The video will give you an idea of how realistic it actually is. It will be available...

The MG200 from MPIO will be available from this month onwards. The player comes in three capacities; 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. It supports MP3/WMA, WM DRM 10 and video. Earlier the player was available only in black but now you can pick it up in white as well. It comes with a SD slot on-board for 8GB SDHC card. It comes with 'MTV Video converter' which resizes and optimizes videos for playback on the unit's 128 x 128 260k color...

The LG V50 touch cinema MP3 player features a 2.2-inch full touch screen and supports video playback, image/text viewer and FM radio function. The player was showcased at the CES this year. The specs also include LG 3D sound effect, Mobile XD Engine and on a full charge you can view 4.5 hours video playback and listen to your music fro 24 hours non-stop....

Breaking the confines of being China-only, LG KF600 phone has been officially announced and will be available worldwide. While speculations were rife whether they would intro it to the rest of the world, after all LG Venus (a similar phone) is already here in the States. The dual-screen "touch navigation" slider is far from entry-level and features InteractPad, 2.5G GSM/GPRS/Edge connectivity, 3-megapixel camera, main 240×320 QVGA display, 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, media player, Bluetooth and USB 2.0....

Pioneer is introducing their new MEP-7000 player with the SEP-C1 Software Entertainment Controller. Aimed at the mobile DJ and bar market, the MEP-7000 plays almost everything except vinyl. It lets you play MP3, WAV, AIFF and AAC files, from any source, including hard drives, CD, DVD, USB keys and computers. The system can also be setup to playback and mix music automatically using playlists, allowing the system to entertain when no DJ is present. It even features a 4.3-inch color...

At the rate we are going, natural rain forests and open spaces will be a thing of the past. The only way we will be able to tell the future generations about them will be through nature-base amusement parks. Finnish artist Ilkka Halso also believes in this theory and feels nature will be on view in amusement parks only. Hit on jump to catch a few more glimpses on what our future theme parks will be like....

I'm sure you must have not forgotten how Tom Cruise manipulated documents and the likes in the movie Minority Report. Well if you want a similar experience, you won't need to head over to a sci-fi movie set, but instead head over to your gaming console because very soon a system will be out that will allow you to control characters by simply moving your hands. The Zcam device uses a small 3D camera which sits below the computer...

The next big thing in the gadget world is the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung is gearing up to showcase the Samsung F490 full touchscreen and Samsung P720 DuoS handsets. But besides these two new ones, Samsung is gearing up to show their new high end Samsung i900 smartphone. Italian mobile magazine Cellularmania has some hot pics on the phone. Samsung i900 specs include quad band GSM/UMTS, 7.2 HSDPA connectivity, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, 3.5″ 240×400 pixel touchscreen,...

The last thing you expect your laptop to do is shock you…literally. The CNET team learnt it the hard way; they realized that the tingling sensation at their fingertips was not a bout of some medical condition but the result of an electric shock from their Dell lappie. The charge varied from "a gentle tingle to a sudden jolt." Apparently not all Dell lappies shock you but brushed-aluminum finished ones namely the XPS M1330 and XPS M1530 are the culprits....

The Sony DCR-SR220 is a HDD cam with SD resolution video recording featuring a 60GB HDD. With this beauty you will be able to record animated pictures on the memory stick PRO duo. The recorder supports MPEG-2 format, it features, 15x Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T optics, 4-megapixel digital still capture, 2.3 megapixel ClearVid CMOS sensor, Face detection technology for video and photos (maximum of 8 faces), 41 hours of video, Hybrid movie recording on Memory Stick PRO Duo media card...

Yamaha is coming with some new gear in the digital sound projector range. The YSP-3000 digital sound projector features HDMI input/output terminal with VIERA and REGZA and Wooo. Inside single large frame, the body houses small-sized speakers and they compliment slim TVs in the 32" range. The new YSP-3000 offers great new features such as 1080p-compatiable HDMI, iPod compatibility and a wide variety of beam settings including My Surround for true multi-channel surround sound enjoyment from a single component. Next...