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Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 15, 2010 at 9:18 pm Comments Off

According to SPA magazine in Japan, Steve Jobs was stopped at an airport for carrying throwing stars as hand luggage. Oddly, this has pushed Apple to release a statement:
Steve Jobs is not a ninja. Apple said so.
Although this makes me somewhat upset that he doesn’t suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke, run on water [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm 1 COMMENT

Do you feel that you aren’t getting enough giant robots in your life? Well, the Softbank 945SH is now Gundam themed to celebrate 30 years of cartoons involving fighting in space using mobile suits.

The phone has tones and sounds similar to the anime series and it looks like it could easily be in it.
But wait, what if [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 14, 2010 at 8:01 pm Comments Off

I’m sure you all know that TechMamba has a Twitter feed, but now thanks to an unproductive weekend, we now have the TechMamba Facebook page.
Feel free to click and like, to show your love for TM.
Well, we think it’s important to know that it exists…

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 10, 2010 at 11:45 pm Comments Off

Those Rock Band 3 aficionados over at Gametactics have found a video showing how the keyboard controller works.
You know, just in case the guitars and drums are annoying to play. Or you want to put those piano lessons your parents forced you to take because it would build character to good use for a change.

No, I’m not [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 10, 2010 at 11:20 pm Comments Off

It’s a Friday night, which means it’s time for a “Mamba Query”!
This week:
It’s been over a week since Ping was unleashed to the world with a collective “Meh” of ambivalence. Apple’s new massive social network allowing people to follow others and see what music they like has had a ton of people sign up via [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 9, 2010 at 9:47 am Comments Off

It’s now possible to get a 3D printer (as in making stuff not images in blue and red) for $1500 (Until their 50% discount runs out, but $3000 isn’t that bad either), thanks to PP3DP making the UP! available for sale.
The UP! uses ABS plastic which costs a not insignificant $50/kg to print out a [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 7, 2010 at 11:13 pm Comments Off

The  nüvi 2200 and 2300 series of sat navs will have what Garmin calls “nüRoute Technology” to assist the location unaware, whilst are being pitched as “economically priced”.

The new devices will have (aside from umlauts) speech recognition, Park Position Recall (so you can find your car if you remember to take the sat nav with you) [...]