Conceived by Cape Townbased Optimal Energy and originally designed by South Africanborn Keith Helfet, South Africas very own allelectric car, Joule, will be proudly showcased at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland this month. FULL STORY >

The Asus external optical drive is a portable DVD writer with a very basic interface to allow quick and easy writing of CDs and DVDs on the move. FULL STORY >

LG's Portable Super Multi Drive is an elegant, external DVD writer that covers all the basic portable optical requirements. FULL STORY >

French mobile maker Sagem and German sportswear firm Puma jointly launched a solar powered phone at the Mobile World Congress 2010 yesterday. FULL STORY >

This week's tech news roundup touches on Apples iPod touch and iPhone a lot throughout and will have COSATU keeping a watchful eye on the developments of the NASA-GM partnership, as it might lead to future job losses for humans to robots. FULL STORY >

The SideWinder X4 keyboard from Microsoft will have gamers upping their kill rate with anti-ghosting technology and automatic macro repetition. FULL STORY >

Verbatims InSight 500 GB portable hard drive with Always On display is under the spotlight. FULL STORY >

Nvidia releases its latest Forceware drivers v196.21 for Windows based PCs, which now offer support for multiple GPU's for many new games. FULL STORY >

The Running from camera blog is based on a really simple concept, but the result is one of the most creative and entertaining blogs we have come across. FULL STORY >

Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. FULL STORY >

Phoenix Software announced today that their Transparent Language Premium Edition courses, which enables you to learn languages at your own pace, is now locally available. FULL STORY >

A small portable photo printer with a nice 3.5-inch touch-screen, spewing out decent prints. FULL STORY >

Nokia announced that certain of its chargers pose a risk to consumers. The company is undertaking what it describes as an exchange program to replace affected chargers for free. FULL STORY >

Every office needs a few gadgets to distract us from the monotony of the day. We\'ve put together a guide to a few of the more random gizmos you can put on your desk or store in your drawer for a rainy day. FULL STORY >

Nokia is killing off its N-Gage gaming platform by the end of 2010 and replacing it with OVI. FULL STORY >