Steve Jobs Tribute Laptops – A specially customized MacBook Pro Retina with a starting price of 9,500 Euros (appx. $12,300 USD), is up for auction in honour of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the man behind the company’s visionary products. An Amsterdam design company specializing in creating unique backlit laptop designs, announced that they have crafted three MacBook Pro Retina, based on the design by Hong Kong-based artist Jonathan Mak.

Pranksters from the website iPhone5.nl super glued the iPhone 5 to one of the busiest squares in Amsterdam and set up a hidden camera to capture how people will react as they try to pick up the phone. Some picked discreetly, while others kicked and jumped on it, and others went away blushing. The result, a hilarious video that quickly went viral on YouTube. Checkout how these people attempt to pick the iPhone 5 up from the ground in the video below.

Philippines, September 12, 2012 – Viki today launched a new Tezuka anime channel on YouTube featuring hundreds of hours of free anime.Through this new premium channel, fans around the globe will now have access to top Tezuka anime titles with subtitles in their preferred languages. For the first time, Viki will power subtitles in multiple languages on YouTube using their Application Programming Interface (API). Videos on YouTube will automatically pull crowd-sourced subtitles/captions powered by Viki’s community of avid fans. Top 10 Titles from Tezuka.

iPhone 5 LAUNCH FEATURES THINNER, LIGHTER, BIGGER SCREEN MODEL, ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER 21 RELEASE DATE. Apple debuts the long-awaited iPhone 5, a taller, thinner, and lighter model at a media event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The new iPhone, powered by the A6 chip, can operate on 4G LTE. Other new features include redesigned headphones, a smaller connector, and mapping software.

Apple will be introducing new products on September 12, with a hint that the star of the event will be the iPhone 5. Apple, one of the most secretive companies in the world, left a hint to the media with its invites saying, “It’s almost here,” with a number “12″ that forms a shadow that appeared to be the number “5″ signifying the iPhone 5. Almost all iPhone 5 leaks and rumors suggest that iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch screen, thinner design, and equipped with 4G network speeds.

Intel developed a fun quiz that can help you find out your travel personality and which Ultrabook you should take along in your suitcase. Travel personalities can come as varied as a bag of skittles – some people enjoy extreme activities while others like to relax and soak up the sun. Technology is increasingly becoming a crucial travel tool to keep you connected, entertained and even help you make or change plans while on holidays. The bond between travellers and their tech devices has strengthened greatly over the past few years. But how do you match your travel personality with the right technology?

The Toilet of the future mission – Bill Gates’ foundation held the Reinvent the Toilet Fair on August 14-15, 2012 at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Wash. where scientists have taken up the challenge to build new toilets that are affordable and sustainable. Dubbed as the “toilet revolution,” the mission of the foundation aims to solve problems about the poor sanitation in the developing world that causes severe diarrhea, which kills 1.5 million children each year.

Mars Rover Landing (Video Animation). NASA’s Mars robotic explorer, Curiosity, has landed safely on Sunday, marking the beginning of its two-year investigation for answer to age-old question about whether Mars could ever have supported life. According to NASA, Curiosity successfully landed in the Gale Crater at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). Gale Crater was chosen as the landing site because there are signs that water was present over its history.

PHILIPPINES –August 3, 2012—Viki, a global TV site powered by fans, today announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring premium TV content to MSN sites in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Viki will localize and stream the premium content that includes television shows, movies, and music videos to 17.6 million* MSN users.

Zuckerberg’s sister (Arielle) – Mark Zuckerberg’s little sister now a google employee. I’m in Israel on Birthright and I just found out that I’m now a Google employee. Not gonna lie… This feels pretty awkward, but I also feel very proud to be a part of the Wildfire team on this exciting day, Arielle wrote on her Facebook page after the news was of the acquisition was announced on Tuesday.

Higgs Boson hunters reveal discovery. Physicists from CERN research centre announced that the two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found a new subatomic particle that could be the Higgs boson aka the God particle, a long-sought particle that gives mass to the universe.

X-37B space plane: US Air Force’s X-37B unmanned space plane landed back on Earth on Saturday, June 16 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California after spending 469 days on a top secret mission. The mission of the pilotless aircraft was a big mystery, the US Air Force is not giving enough details about its mission. It was designed to remain in orbit for up to 270 days but the Air Force extended the mission.

Boasting a smartphone that can feel you, hear you, and see you, Samsung, the world’s largest cellphone maker, is another one step ahead in smartphone competition after it unveiled their new flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. Price not yet announced. Galaxy SIII, the official smartphone of the London 2012 Olympics, will be available in two colors, marble white and pebble blue and includes new features listed below:

Lamborghini SUV price, specs, photos. Lamborghini’s SUV, dubbed as the Urus, was unveiled to the public yesterday at the Beijing Auto Show. It is expected to arrive in 2015 and will be carrying an estimated price tag of $200,000. Lamborghini finally revealed what its SUV will look like, see photos below.

Sex robots in the sex industry. Sex robots will be the future of sex tourism in Amsterdam. That’s how two Kiwi researchers envision 2050 with android prostitutes reigning supreme over human prostitutes in the sex industry.

iPhone Factory Worker Mistreatment, Tim Cook on Defensive…Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out an email to all Apple employees in response to a report by The New York Times published on Wednesday that exposes the harsh working conditions at Chinese factories where Apple builds parts or assemble devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. iPhone factory…

PIPA/SOPA BLACKOUT:…Wikipedia will go dark for a planned blackout on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. In a press release, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and the sixth most visited site in the world, announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide.

HP SPECTRE VIDEO TEASER – SPECTRE POSSIBLY THE NEXT ULTRABOOK OF HP…HP teases techy people with the release of a mysterious promo video for Spectre, a laptop which could be the successor of HP Folio 13 – HP’s first Ultrabook.

In Japan, vending machines can be found in every corner but free Wi-Fi is very rare. Enter Asahi’s new vending machine. This new machine not only dispenses drinks but also offers free Wi-Fi, problem solved for those in Japan who want constant internet access.

MEET VANGIE, THE PINOY VERSION OF iPHONE 4S’ SIRI…Now, Pinoy humor comes in, with a video spoof of Siri by MacapunoSystems. Pinoy version of Siri: Vangie with a tagline, Siri’s Pinoy counterpart. FIX YOUR LIFE!