I never got to have any MOTU action figures but I suspect it was down to cost - an action figure would cost £20 in todays money and Castle Greyskull would be around £70. But look at those toys - MASK, Transformers, MOTU, Star Wars, video games, calculator watches.

This hoodie with an inflatable pillow just blew past its Kickstarter goal | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... al-1312620
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AMD hints at Xbox One and PS4 price drops on the horizon | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/co ... on-1312614

I can't see it being that major a drop, the consoles are permanently on sale one way or another and wouldn't have much further to go.



That's quite disturbing when you consider it's been the weakest generation in terms of games by far. It's months until any big hitters turn up FFS.
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After only two months, Snapchat is killing off its Lens Store | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... re-1312575

There's no set rule on how long a generation is. That article seems to make the assumption this generation will be roughly 5 years, but there's no real basis for that. Platform owners would obviously like them to be as short as possible but the PS2 was the dominant platform for a decade and the PS3 is still fairly healthy roughly 8 years after it's UK launch.

Jon

My issue is how little seems to have been achieved at this point, and it's scary to think two years have already gone by. The first year is always weak, but somehow next to nothing has stood out in terms of releases. It all seems to be happening this year for some reason, like this gen caught the developers out somehow. Everything is certainly getting delayed, I know that much.

You're exactly right I think - a lot of the 'second generation' games - which is when a console really starts to get going - got delayed into 2016; No Man's Sky, The Division, Scalebound,.. Not sure why that is but I'd definitely agree this console generation feels 'stalled' as a result.

PlayStation VR price may have leaked thanks to Amazon | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/wearables ... on-1312790

'We are in no way gauging your reaction.'

The iPhone 5E may be the iPhone 6C we've all been waiting for | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... or-1312894
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Apple might make it easier for iPhone users to switch to Android | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... id-1312862

Hmmm.
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Apple Music now has half as many paid subscribers as Spotify | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... fy-1312859

No wonder, between basically promoting itself and Spotify being in a constant state of flux on everything...
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Tesla's latest update lets you summon your car from the curb | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/ ... rb-1312835

12 metres?

Apple promises a good night's sleep with new iPhone feature | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... ight-shift

Didn't Amazon just do this?

I do hope that this is not a automatic 'feature' that can't be disabled, because I sleep during the day.

Mark

Apple TV's newest app lets you play your personal movie library | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/televisio ... ry-1313055
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Spotify adding lyrics and artist commentary to playlists | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/spo ... ts-1313033

That could actually be useful.
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At last: scientists develop a lithium battery that doesn't explode | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... de-1313014

Remember when Sony got all those companies into trouble with their 'special' batteries?
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Gaping flaw in Trend Micro Antivirus could have spilled all your passwords | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ds-1313000
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Windows 8 users be warned: There'll be no more security updates from now on | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... on-1312965

Even more will be thinking, 'I turned off updates years ago'.
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Elon Musk insists Apple is making an electric car | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/ ... ar-1312968

I've heard the battery life is awful
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Apple denies it's working on a tool to switch from iOS to Android | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... id-1312862


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An Amazon Echo the size of a beer can may be here soon | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/ama ... on-1312943

Not really. I've had a DLNA client on mine since the day it launched and an app that will play various media off SMB shares since shortly after. And Plex came along shortly after launch too, although I don't personally use it. It's a nice bit of publicity for VLC but they're not actually doing anything new at all.


Excuse me, but I don't quite get why Apple should be working on such a tool. Surely it's the job of any given platform holder to write tools to migrate to their own platform as a way to attract people to switch to that platform? Google should have a tool to do that job and be saying 'not only do we have one, but ours has these extra features and is this much more reliable'. That's the free market way, after all...

I think the idea with VLC is that it's basically plug and play for hard drives and myriad file types, at least that's how I'm reading it. I know zilch about ATV.

Apple's 'we're doing very nicely, thank you!' was what made me laugh.

Watch this drone shoot webs like Spider-Man | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... an-1313108

pure win!
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World's biggest SSD is launched – and it's a monster 13TB drive | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... ve-1313131

Definitely not for the average user - by the time you filled it it'd be failing.
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Send personal messages via a work account? Your boss can legally read them | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... em-1313122

That's what I'd expect.
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Sony's super smart lightbulb can control nearly everything in your home | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/digital-h ... me-1313117
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One in four people won't make a traditional cellphone call this week. | TechRadar
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... ws-1313112

I barely ever make calls, you're talking weeks if not months between. Unless it's for taxis. Almost everybody I know is the same, it's all texts and Whatsapp.

Apple admits iPhone 6S and 6S Plus battery meters misleading | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... misleading

It's not just Apple with regards to time problems though, there's an awful lot of Android phones that just change the time on a whim, whether network or owner set. For whatever reason.

Revolutionary new graphene elastomer exceeds sensitivity of human skin
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-revolution ... human.html

Christ, I hate that it's so difficult to produce...