Another week in Tech has flown by, but what have we got to show for it?

Look Ma', I'm flying!

Well, have you ever wished you could fly? Not in a plane I mean, fly like Superman? Yeah, I have too. Well I’m afraid that’s impossible, but you can have the next best thing, the Martin jetpack. The jetpack in question is destined to be the first commercially available later this year, and at $86000 it’s not even as much as a fully specced Lambo. This personal flying marvel is powered by a 2L V4 two-stroke engine spinning two carbon-kevlar composite rotors, running on bog standard petrol with a flight time of 30mins. It’s technically not a ‘jetpack’ because there’s no actual jets, but if that doesn’t beat the pants off your mate’s crappy sports car, I don’t know what will.

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March already? Blimey this year’s going quick. Speaking of quick, this week had not one, not two, but three eco-sports cars featuring in the news. First up we had Tesla announcing a partnership to make a special edition TAG Heuer Roadster, making yet another entry into the ‘cars you wish you had the money for’ list.

The TAG Tesla Roadster, even more want.

Another week, another tech story and there’s plenty of them to choose from this week so let’s get cracking OK?

First up for your gadget gorging pleasure is the world’s first 4G netbook which the folks over at CNET UK got their mitts on. The Samsung N150 packs your usual netbook fair, nothing really to shake a stick at apart from the LTE modem (that’s LongTermEvolution for those keeping track). Boasting potential speeds of 100Mbps down/50Mbps up, real world tests showed Sammy managing roughly 28Mbps, which to be fair is faster than my home broadband. A lot to get excited about then.

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Another week in Tech has flown by as we head into December and the inevitable Christmas rush. This week we’ve had the good, the bad and the down-right ugly rear their heads in the world of consumer technology.

In a break from tradition we’ll start with the bad. Virgin Media announced this week that it would be  snooping into 40% of it’s customers traffic using a technology called CView, which conducts Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in an effort to determine the rate of music piracy across it’s network. Yes that’s right, Virgin is going to examine everything that goes to and from your computer if you happen to be in the lucky 40%. What does this really mean? Well if you’re pirating music across an unencrypted network like BitTorrent, VM will know and what they’ll do about it is unknown. Virgin are set to launch a music service in conjunction with Universal and their official line is that they want to gauge piracy levels. I don’t know about you, but piracy or not, I don’t want people snooping at everything I do or send across the Internet including email, IM, Waves and surfing. Maybe it’s time to protect yourself by changing providers or using a SSL tunnel to a proxy you trust.

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Another week in Tech has come and gone but what have we got to show for it? Well we’ve got the launch of the worlds first driverless taxis at London’s Heathrow Airport. We’ve talked about the tiny little automated pods that transport you from the business car park into Terminal 5 in only five minutes before, but now, if you happen to live in or around London, you too can go have a play in them. Pity they’re not in central London, maybe they would be a cheaper and safer alternative to the dodgy mini cabs on the way home from a night out.

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It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for certain Nvidia cards on Windows, but perhaps more importantly reduced CPU usage across all platforms. What does this mean? YouTube that doesn’t make your Mac or PC red-line that’s what. A step in the right direction Adobe, maybe Flash isn’t a lost cause after all. I’ve certainly seen some improvements on my netbook and Mac.

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Welcome to Pixelated Geek’s Weekly Tech Wrap-up, a quick and humorous run through of some smaller stories from the world of consumer electronics and technology.

First batter up is the hideous looking OpenOffice Mouse. This beast features a full 18 buttons, 63 programmable profiles and even an analogue joystick! What more could you want from an instant carpel tunnel surgery inducing monstrosity? How about a soon to hit street price of $75 (£45)? Obviously not a fan of the Magic Mouse, a World of Warcraft-loving gamer decided his mouse didn’t have enough buttons and went ahead and set up a company to do it better. WarMouse is aiming this at the OpenOffice, MMO playing crowd and they might go potty over it, but I think I’ll stick to my trusty Logitech thanks.

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