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A Tesla Roadster run in this year’s Global Green Challenge between Darwin and Adelaide has smashed the record for the longest distance travelled by an electric car on a full charge, but it had to be driven at an excruciatingly slow pace.

GameSpot has reported that the new game Modern Warfare 2 features a section of gameplay which casts players as terrorists gunning down civilians inside an airport.

What is depth of field? It’s the area in front of and behind your area of focus that looks sharp.

At this year’s Tokyo Motor Show, Honda unveiled its U3-X personal mobility device that may save some of us from the nasty habit of walking in the future.

If news of the imminent Motorola Droid announcement wasn’t exciting enough for Android fans, it looks like Sony Ericsson is set to make a similar claim.

It’s got a lot of star power, but this collection of sports-themed mini-games isn’t Mario and Sonic’s finest hour.

Fujifilm launches the Remora Slave Flash Kit. The Remora has a guide number of 20, not only is it suited to daytime diving, but its performance is also essential during night dives when a good light source is even more critical to taking great pictures. Another key feature of new the Fujifilm Remora Flash is the wide angle flash beam angle of 60 degrees. The extra wide flash spread means a bigger area can be illuminated to meet the needs of both macro and wide-angle photography. The Remora Flash Kit is available now for £229.99…

Following the first endeavors by Omnivision and Sony, Toshiba now announces a new CMOS image sensor with 14.6 million pixels and back-side illumination (BSI) technology. In traditional image sensors the light entering the sensor is blocked by the wires, degrading the overall light sensitivity. In this BSI technology the lenses are attached to the back side of a substrate and deliver light directly to the photodiodes, without any interference from wiring. As a result, the light sensitivity and overall performance are boosted…

We rank the GPS navigation apps available for the iPhone from best worst.

The Creative Zen X-Fi2 is the company’s first touchscreen MP3 player which includes expandable storage and native support for FLAC.

While a few tweaks such as an in-built wireless receiver for keyboard/mouse and a video input so it could double as a monitor for your laptop would be nice, if you’re looking for a cheap all-in-one PC, it’s hard to ignore the Vostro 320 as an option.

The K50AB is a typical mid-range laptop that looks good, but the in-built GPU-switching feature doesn’t save on battery at all. We’d suggest looking elsewhere for your mid-range needs.

If you’re not green or deserve the prefix super, then you’re nothing at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show - motorbikes included.

New patch released by Sony for the UK version of the PS3-based PVR adds in Australian TV support.

User-created routines and plenty of new activities make Wii Fit Plus a vast improvement on the original, although some important omissions stop it from being a standout.

The Yari looks great but doesn’t have stellar features or applications. If you’re in it for the games then be prepared for a serious disappointment.

Good value when compared with entry-level portable nav units, but not quite as polished. Not in a hurry? Maybe wait for TomTom’s attempt first.

The streets of Queensland’s Gold Coast were transformed for four days in October for the Nikon SuperGP, with a host of cars being our test subjects for a range of Nikon digital SLRs including the D3S.

Sony’s DSC-TX1 is an exciting step forward for compact cameras, pushing for better image quality rather than more megapixels - and it pulls it off in style.

As seemingly accidental as Janet Jackson’s infamous wardrobe malfunction, the Motorola Droid has been outed online by the company that intends to sell it in the US.