HTC announces its next party, Beats Audio and 'surprise headliner' in attendance

HTC's Facebook page is inviting fans to a gathering on October 6th at the rock 'n roll Roundhouse in London, ostensibly to celebrate the Beats Audio technology we've been listening to with the Sensation XE. Call us over-excited, but the manufacturer's last party bore plenty of exotic fruit so we reckon those Dre-approved headphones in the flyer might be connected to yet another new handset - unless the mystery guest happens to be the aging hip-hop star himself.

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Buffalo MiniStation Extreme and DriveStation Axis Velocity external hard drives

If you're in the market for new external hard drives, Buffalo has just announced two new external hard drive models – the MiniStation Extreme and the DriveStation Axis Velocity, both of which will support the USB 3.0 standard, allowing fast transfer rates assuming of course your computer has USB 3.0 ports to begin with. Both models will come with 256-bit AES hardware encryption that supposedly meets the US government's standard for security.

Ubergizmo, Buffalo MiniStation Extreme and DriveStation Axis Velocity external hard drives

Caterham confirms development of new sports car range

Caterham has announced that it has founded a separate engineering company that will focus on producing a new line of affordable sports cars. Caterham Technology and Innovation Limited intends to translate the lessons of lightweight performance gleaned from years of building the Caterham Seven into an accessible product for the masses. There's even talk of implementing lightweight materials and high-performance engine tech from the Team Lotus Formula One endeavor. Get excited.

Autoblog, Caterham confirms development of new sports car range

Black Wii Fit Plus bundle coming your way

I guess Nintendo must be in some sort of creative slump at the moment – after all, their Wii has not received a memorable nor notable game since…er, see, that's the problem. How about their Nintendo 3DS. It certainly falls behind the shadow of its far more successful predecessor (which actually surprised everyone as before the DS was released, Nintendo was in another slump). Guess Nintendo looked back at their playbook and realized that the age old tactic of releasing aged hardware in a new color might just do the trick.

Ubergizmo, Black Wii Fit Plus bundle coming your way

Redrock Micro Releases LiveLens MFT Active Lens Mount

Redrock Micro has launched the LiveLens MFT active lens adapter that enables Canon EF lenses to be used with any Micro Four-Thirds cameras. This active lens adapter is compatible with all EF lenses that are available in the market today including variable aperture zoom lenses, prime lenses, consumer-level lenses, and professional L-series lenses. The Redrock Micro LiveLens MFT active lens mount is priced at $442.50.

TechFresh, Redrock Micro Releases LiveLens MFT Active Lens Mount

Google+ users hit 50 million mark

In just less than a week after Google opened up the doors of their own social network, Google+, to the world, it seems that the growth has proved to be phenomenal. According to Paul Allen (unofficial statistician for Google+), Google+ has already achieved the 50 million user mark. Sure, it might pale in comparison to Facebook's figure that stands more than 15 times the number, but see how fast it took for Google+ to arrive there compared to Facebook – Google+ took just 88 days, while Facebook plodded along for 1,325 days.

Ubergizmo, Google+ users hit 50 million mark

Samsung's Galaxy S II for T-Mobile proves that unicorns do exist (hands-on video)

After eluding our grubby little paws at its launch in New York and again this morning at Mobilize 2011, we're happy to report that we've finally caught up with T-Mobile's Galaxy S II. To recap, the carrier's permutation rocks the same WVGA 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus display as Sprint's Epic 4G Touch, but replaces Samsung's in-house 1.2GHz Exynos CPU with Qualcomm's dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 processor. T-Mobile tells us the brain swap was necessary as it wanted its variant to support 42Mbps HSPA+ on the network's AWS band (just like its cousin the Amaze 4G).










Engadget, Samsung's Galaxy S II for T-Mobile proves that unicorns do exist (hands-on video)