After over 3 years, I’m leaving TechMamba to blog full-time over at Electronista. It’s a big change for me and forces me to stop posting here. It’s been swell. Justin Lee will continue to maintain the site, moving more towards video content in the future. Thank you for your time. Goodbye.

It’s not often that I get something sent for review which I’ve never considered using before. Receiving an electric cigarette starter pack from Electric Zebra was a bit of a surprise, with one minor issue: I don’t smoke. How do you solve a problem like that? Simple: Find a smoker…

Razer are going to make a Left Handed Naga mouse after their Facebook page flooded with fans. CEO Min-Liang Tan said that if his post on Facebook was liked 10,000 times before April 21st, they’d make a left handed version of their right handed peripheral. That goal was met on March 29th. This means the [...]

I know it’s still April Fools’ today, but this is real. An elephant called Peter (me neither) was filmed playing with a Samsung Galaxy Note. Bet he’d be useless at Draw Something…

Creative have released the Creative Live! Cam Connect HD, a webcam that has passed Skype certification for video calls at 720p HD video at up to 30 frames per second. Going for the fairly reasonable $99, it features a microphone with noise cancellation, an 8MP resolution camera and an auto focus liquid crystal lens. That [...]

As is customary on today’s date (the first of April, aka April Fools’ Day), Google has spent a considerable amount of time devising “announcements” for the greater internet to enjoy. Given their previous form, they needed to go big or go home. And go big they did: The main prank is their “Quests” addition to [...]

It’s World Backup Day today, which means you should think about what to do in a data emergency. If you don’t already backup, there’s a wealth of options available to you: External Hard Drives USB Flash Drives Network Attached Storage Online Backup solutions And others that you can take advantage of. If your data suddenly disappears, it’s [...]

Steve Mahan drove the Google Self-Driving Car. Steve also happens to be legally blind. Cue promotional video from Google showing him drive a car full of people by sitting behind the steering wheel whilst it turns and moves all on it’s own without any real direct input from him. “Pics or it didn’t happen”? How [...]

George “The Tax Man Cometh” Osborne has opened the new Google Campus in trendy East London’s “Tech City”. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did his usual Chancellor… thing…. by walking around being introduced to vaguely important people and extolling the virtues of the project to a press pack wondering about fuel problems. Campus is a [...]

German engineers and scientists group Part-Time Scientists are competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, in which they’ll get $30 million if they’re the first privately funded team to put a rover on the moon, drive for half a kilometer and send video back to Earth. Pretty cool, but why do we find this interesting? [...]