After 1.8 million man-hours of work, Nvidia have announced their first GPUs using their weirdly named Kepler architecture.

Their first card carrying it will be the GeForce GTX 680, which is apparently 300% faster in Direct X 11 tessellation and 43% faster in Skyrim and uses over a quarter less power than the other leading cards on the market today.
This is all down to important stuff, like acoustic dampeners, a new streaming multiprocessor block, “GPU Boost technology” to alter GPU speeds mid-game, new FXAA and TXAA anti-aliasing, all powered by something manufactured in a new 28 nanometer process.

Laptops will benefit from the GeForce 600M GPU family, promising a load of stuff like “Optimus” tech allowing the GPU to run only when needed, PhysX improvements, 3D Vision tech and even SLI tech allowing for dual GPU’d laptops.

If that text bored you, here’s a handy video they’ve made. Will it explain where the name Kepler comes from?

No, it doesn’t.

Press release and pre-found by the PR people supporting quotes in full after the jump.

It has taken just 4 days, but Apple are now shouting that they will win the tablet war by saying they sold 3 million “The New iPad Not 3″s. That works out to be an average of 750,000 a day. 31,250 an hour. 520 a minute. 86 a second.

That’s a lot of Retina displays, and not even taking into account the ones being sold in a load more European countries and New Zealand from the 23rd.

Here’s an obligatory iPad photo:

Full gloating press release after the jump…

Videos of people falling over in public will never be the same again, thanks to Google. YouTube now has a tool that, upon uploading a video, now offers to fix it if there’s an issue relating to camera shake or white balance along with other issues.

They’ve even made a video explaining what they mean:

If you doubt it’s usefulness, you can see the Before and After. Not bad considering it’s a software solution to a hardware problem (using a damned tripod!)

Expect the option to “fix” your video right after uploading it to YouTube from now on. Sadly, “fixing” won’t cover the video subject matter. Like bad singing.

Today’s Budget Day in the UK, which means news report complaining about taxes on stuff and general commentary on how this will improve/destroy society. We don’t care too much about that, because buried inside the 707kb, 116 page document there’s something newsworthy to us techies. A few things at least.

Firstly, game companies can enjoy corporation tax relief from April 2013, pending approval from various governmental places. This is what the games industry has campaigned for and has finally got, which makes them happy.

The second good bit is where Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle and 10 other smaller and unannounced cities will be “Super-Connected Cities”, aka £150 million worth of total investment to roll out up to 100Mbps broadband in those areas, affecting about 3 million people and 200,000 businesses. Again, this is a good thing.

There’s also mentions of extending the mobile phone coverage in rural areas and moving a ton of other stuff online, but that’s vaguely unimportant.

The relevant snippet from the Budget is after the jump, along with responses from various UK Game related bodies. Now, back to shouting about taxes…

Once I’ve won the lottery and built my dream living room, I’d want more than a decent home cinema. I’d want an invisible TV that exists when I want it to exist and the nearest thing to that is to have a projector, but I don’t want an eyesore hanging from the ceiling. Whatever am I to do…

Well, my imaginary dream set-up is saved thanks to the Ceymsa Mirror Projector Mechanism. Instead of a dropping mechanism that lowers the projector itself from the ceiling, a weird reverse periscope  drops down to project the image onto my intended blank wall of visual glory, keeping the projector safe from being seen above the ceiling itself.

How much is this mechanism? A paltry £1099, which is fine for my mental image of my MTV Cribs profile…

The Pleasure Home (Be mature!) have announced that at the end of March they will release the iRemoteControl for the iPad.
Basically, it’s a  copy, both visual and functional of the Sky, Virgin, Tivo, Apple TV remotes along with others that happens to be viewable and usable on the iPad and iPhone.

Don’t facepalm, it’s actually useful!

What if you have tons of remotes? You could replace them all with this! Or how about if you suddenly lose the Sky remote and urgently need to change the channel to watch The Walking Dead? It would be invaluable.  Maybe you’d rather use the electronic programme guide on the iPad instead of using the TV version.

Expect it 31st of March. More screenshots and the press release after the jump.

It’s been about a week since Apple raised and lowered the reality distortion field, and that got me wondering: How did it affect Twitter?

Cue going to visual.ly and generating 2 hashtag infographics on two hashtags: #ipad and #ipad3

What I can see is that #ipad3 had far less mentions than #ipad, but that’s to be expected. The spikes on both tags on the same day is fairly hefty.

Click them for the full infographic.

It’s only been a few days, and the accessories arms race has started.

Waterfield Designs have announced the Muzetto Outback: A pretty cool looking bag that comes in a range of accent colours and five sizes, two of which designed specifically for the Apple iPad (They say “specifically for the new Apple iPad”, but I think they were just making them for iPads in general…)

You can get your waxed canvas bag for between $150 and $190. iPad sold seperately. Obviously.

Full press release after the jump.

One of the longest reviews in Techmamba history. We really tried to edit it down, but with over 60 games in this NJ Pocket 60 in 1 portable game console…we ended up with a 55 minute review. Our poor tech reviewer Glenda tried out all 60 games so you didn’t have to! Be sure to enter the contest to win the NJ Pocket by visiting the Youtube page itself and subscribing, liking and commenting about this console.

At the same time as their “iPad 3 without the 3″ announcement, Apple talked about their new Apple TV.

This time, their hockey puck of televisual goodness features a ton of stuff in 1080p, including iTunes movies and shows, Netflix and Vimeo. AirPlay Mirroring lets iPad or iPhone owners stream from their devices to the Apple TV to show it on the big screen (you know, for people to watch your epic Angry Birds Rio skills).

iPad and iPhone owners can get a Remote app for free which will allow them to control the Apple TV when they can’t find the normal remote any more.  Then there’s iCloud compatibility and the whole iTunes syncing stuff as well.

You can get the new Apple TV for $99 from March 16th. Not bad at all for a hockey puck with wires.

Full PR after the jump.