A startup working on battery technology says it’s developed a key breakthrough that could one day lead to an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000.

It’s MWC talk all around, and HTC doesn’t want to be left out of all the fun. The company has posted a charmer of a message, on their official blog, from the “Location of Mobile World Congress 2012, in Barcelona, Spain”. message, posted by John Starkweather, the company’s Director of digital marketing, briefly hints at something big.

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production. The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids.

"I got to spend some time with Eric, Larry, and a dozen other journalists yesterday after the amazing keynote. The story everyone wanted to talk about--and Eric and Larry didn't--was Google going into the operating system, deskop computer, and office suite business (let's call those three things "Google Desktop" for simplicity)."

A glimpse at Stuff's mucky tea leaves reveals that the future's rectangular.

Is there anything Samsung doesn’t do? The same week I bought myself a shiny new Galaxy S II, they launched a solar-powered netbook for use in the developing world. Unlike any American or European company, Samsung Electronics manufactures smartphones and their memory chips, TVs and their screens, computers and their hard drives. They’re the only entity that’s both arms dealer and aggressor in the midst of the biggest arms race the tech world has ever seen.

Just over a year ago, GeekTech covered a DIY project that recreated the self-lacing shoes that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part 2. Around the same time, Nike filed a patent for shoes that "provide a set of straps that can be automatically opened and closed to switch between a loosened and tightened position of the upper". Now, it looks like the real thing is here in the Nike Air Mag.

Adobe’s Flash product has become an easy target over the past several years because of its relatively poor performance on mobile devices, especially when it comes to interactive content. What many people forget is that Flash is also a very good and widely adopted tool used for creating cool things.

There is something vaguely comical about watching a full-sized Batmobile pottering around civilian streets in the cold light of day with what appears to be a 1970s vacuum cleaner stuck under the bonnet. But mock it mercilessly at your peril. Casey Putsch of Putsch Racing decided to fulfil his childhood ambition of driving the Batmobile from 1989's Batman, and did it the proper way. By stuffing a turbine engine in it.

Psychology experiments showed that people presented with difficult questions began to think of computers. When participants knew that facts would be available on a computer later, they had poor recall of answers but enhanced recall of where they were stored.

The long-running patent dispute between Apple and HTC has really kicked off this weekend, with a US judge ruling that HTC has infringed two of Apple’s tech patents by using designs owned by Apple in its Android phones.

Scientists from the University of Bologna in Italy have developed software that lets cars "communicate" with one another on the road. Similar technology had been used before but this time, said the team, cars would be able to "know" what had happened kilometres ahead. Tests suggest it could reduce motorway pile-ups by 40%.

HTC has responded to Apple's latest legal action against it, denying that the patent infringement claims hold any water. As we reported yesterday, Apple has filed a new complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking to block the sales of certain HTC devices, claiming that they infringe on Apple's copyrights

Chocolate lovers may soon be able to print their own 3D creations thanks to work by UK scientists. A 3D printer that uses chocolate has been developed by University of Exeter researchers - and it prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic.

Steve Jobs calls it the post-PC era. For Google, it's all about the cloud. Microsoft calls it the PC-plus era. The firms use different terms and have different approaches, but they're talking about the same thing: a radically different kind of computing where the PC is no longer the centre of the universe.

Leading LED lighting manufacturers have announced large price drops for the next-gen tech, meaning we could all be using far less energy in a few years.

IBM Thursday announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology, which may lead to the development of solid-state chips that can store as much data as NAND flash technology but with 100 times the performance and vastly greater lifespan.

While 3D printers spew out house keys, ladies' swimwear and even compete with Gordon Ramsay in the kitchen department, the lowly inkjet has effectively been shoved aside. There's still some life in the old boy yet, though, after scientists used one to print solar cells.

If you happen to see a car hurtling down the motorway while its driver is busy doing a crossword puzzle, don't be alarmed. He's probably a Volkswagen engineer testing the company's Temporary Auto Pilot feature. That, or he's really into extreme word games.

A new viral video making the rounds on the Internet purports to show what’s been dubbed a "mothership" and at least three separate smaller alien spacecraft filmed in the skies over London.