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VIDEO: iPad gets "Bad" parody song

David Wu and the Fringemunks have turned their attention to the iPad with this parody tune that takes Michael Jackson's "Bad" and gives it the chipmunk treatment.

Hit play on the video box above to hear the song in which you can expect "USB" rhymed with "3G" and...

Nvidia Optimus auto-switches on your graphics on demand

Nvidia dropped a note about its Optimus technology in a short blog post prior to CES this year, but we've got the full low down from Nvidia for the service that launches today.

Nvidia Optimus seamlessly bridges the gap between integrated and discrete graphics...

VIDEO: Nvidia Optimus demonstrated

Nvidia Optimus is going to be rolling out with most major manufacturers this year, giving you the benefit of long battery life from integrated graphics, or great performance from a discrete GPU, without you, the user, having to manually switch.

The great thing...

Rumbelows could return to the high street

It seems US retail giant Best Buy has considered nostalgia as a weapon for its coming-soon attack on the UK high street.

Best Buy has carried out research into resurrecting the "Rumbelows" brand name for shops in order to cash in on the consumer nostalgia associated...

Intel introduces Itanium 9300 supercomputer chip

Intel has announced a new microprocessor for supercomputers - the Itanium 9300 series. It packs a massive 2,000,000,000 transistors onto a single chip - more than twice the number found in the latest Core i7 chips from the company.

The chip has four cores, and...

Daily news roundup: HTC Incredible photos, Nexus One and more

Want to know what's been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today?

We have plenty of technology and gadget ingredients to make our Pocket-lint roundup stew as tasty as ever.

First up and we have news of some leaked photos of what could be the HTC...

Make your own Apple iPad out of paper

Whether you reeeally want an iPad, you're curious and want to get a better idea of its dimensions, or you want to fake out a fanboy friend, the iPad template is now available.

The template can be printed off and folded into something that's roughly the same size...

Win a Dell Studio 16 XPS laptop

Pocket-lint has teamed up with Dell Outlet to bring you the opportunity to win one of their high end XPS laptops. Whether you are into gaming, films, photography or general PC usage this laptop is a fantastic prize for any PC lover. Just follow this Dell Outlet link to...

70% of Brits have heard of the iPad

A large proportion of Brits are aware of the Apple iPad, but aren't entirely certain about the device's feature set, new YouGov research has revealed.

An online survey has revealed that 70% of British adults shown an image and provided with a brief description...

VIDEO: Megawhat Tech Week in View - ebook prices, IE6, Flash and 3D football

This week's instalment of Pocket-lint and Megawhat's Tech Week in View show is fresh off the video editing suite and ready to go now for your viewing pleasure. As is customary each week, Stuart Miles takes the hot tech topics of the moment, chews 'em up, spits 'em out...

Daily Tech Deal: Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T £349.99

For today's tech deal we have the Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T, on sale at Play.com for £349.99.

Play are suggesting that you're saving £150 off the RRP, which technically might be true but in reality it looks like elsewhere this would be costing you around the...

Thousands sign up to anti-iPad petition

At least 5000 consumers have added their digital signatures to an anti-iPad campaign that's currently petitioning Apple CEO Steve Jobs to remove digital rights management, or DRM, from the device's content.

DefectiveByDesign.org, a campaign of the Free Software...

iTablet launches from UK company

In its own words "hot on the heels of Apple's latest product launch", UK company X2 Computing has launched the "iTablet" range of Windows- or Linux-based tablet PCs.

Due to start shipping in April 2010, in wording reminiscent of Apple's marketing speak, X2...

Sony to be "active player" with iPad rival

Despite having shown no interest in the tablet PC market in the past, the launch of Apple's iPad has seemingly inspired the Japanese consumers electronics giant to take a long hard look at its options. 

At a Tokyo press conference Sony's chief financial officer...

Iron Man MacBook sticker available

Super hero fans can get a new MacBook decal that sees Iron Man's repulsor ray, fired from the palm of his hand, turned into the Apple logo.

The sticker is made of a "special vinyl lucid material" and if your allegiance changes to say, the Iron Monger, it can easily...

Scottevest's Travel Vest boasts an iPad pocket

American geek-wear company Scottevest is quick off the mark to claim that one of its many-pocketed products had a pocket that will neatly fit the Apple iPad in.

The $100 Travel Vest boasts no less than 22 pockets with the "TabPocket" on the jacket's inside bottom...

15 easy tips to make Windows boot up faster

So the Sony Vaio Z can boot up faster than a speeding photon. Well, bully for those people who are happy to shell out 2000-odd pounds for a laptop and a further 2000 even ones too. The rest of us may not be able to fire up the old Microsoft Windows at quite that same...

PHOTOS: Sony VAIO Z series hands on

If you want it all in a small package, you'll probably be looking at a Sony VAIO Z series. This is the carbon fibre and aluminium number that, at the top of the range offers you an Intel Core i7 processor, 6GB RAM and 255GB SSD memory.

The screen may only be 13.1...

iPad 2 rumours hit the net

A summary of recent internet suppositions and rumour stories suggests that Apple will offer a more Mac-like iPad 2 and that the first-gen iPad - yet to launch - may well do so with a camera option.

Taking the imaging element, Mission:Repair reports, on receipt...

Dell Alienware M11x priced in US and UK, UK gets spec boost

Dell has released pricing details in the UK and the US for its new Alienware gaming laptop the Alienware M11x first announced at CES.

Although on the surface gamers are likely to cry "rip-off" Britain once again when they see the $799 price tag replaced with a...

Sony Vaio E Series notebooks announced

Sony's new E Series of Vaios has been announced and replaces the NW Series in its consumer notebook line-up. Said to be compact, the claim for the E Series is that it offers multimedia features you'd expect to find on bigger, bulkier options.

Spec for the...

PHOTOS: Sony VAIO E series hands on

Sony has just announced the launch of its new E series, joining the line-up of models for 2010. We got our hands on the new machine and shot off a quick gallery for you.

The new VAIO E series comes in and replaces the NW series. Like the NW, the new E series will...

VIDEO: Chrome OS tablet concept demoed

Concept images and a video have shown up on the Chromium site for the yet to be released Chrome OS operating system from Google.

Although a launch of the Google powered OS isn't expected until November at the earliest, that hasn't stopped the search engine releasing...

3-metre, 65-finger and blow touchscreen debuts

A Portuguese company is hoping to transform our landscape and environment into one big touchscreen if they have their way, with a new technology debuting in Amsterdam.

Called projective capacitive touchscreen technology, the tech has the ability to turn virtually...

Samsung builds first AMOLED touchscreen

Samsung Mobile Display has announced that it'll soon begin mass producing a touch function AMOLED panel - a product that it claims is the first of its kind. The 3.3-inch WVGA display will start rolling off conveyor belts in March.

I know what you're thinking -...