A new prototype from a group of German companies could have found a replacement to the touchscreen - using hand gestures? Called the Gesture Cube, the prototype will be able to translate hand movements that are close to the screen (or screens) into commands for the device.

You will, however, still need to touch a switch or button to activate the task - but using your hands to just increase the volume or scroll through your entire media collection or switch to different screens are still revolutionary.

It is still in a concept, so this might not come out any time soon. It would be interesting to see how this would work in the real world. But until we see this, have a drool on the images below.

Sega has unveiled a new console, which seems to be pretty underwhelming in contrast to the other major consoles out now. Only time will tell whether the Zone Sega Wireless Gaming Console will be a contender in the “Console War” or just another knock-off like the Wii.

The Zone Sega Wireless Console boasts 50 games; 20 from the Mega Drive and Genesis era, 14 arcade games, and 16 sport games controlled via a Wii remote like controller. The Sega games though do not use motion control which leaves the question, will emulator get the best of it or will Sega and 3rd party developers make the Zone a worthwhile buy.

The console will sell at £50; roughly $90 here in Australia, and due out in the 3rd quarter of 2010.

Remember Kazaa - that adware-riddled application that allowed you to freely download MP3s back in the early noughties? Turns out, they're still alive, but also have done a Napster and have gone legit after numerous lawsuits and a very big one in Australia that saw it banned. But after Symantec identified it as adware (again), the new owners Brilliant Digital Entertainment are angry and have released a "Consumer Notice".

"Symantec had justified turning off the music for some of Kazaa customers by flagging files in the Kazaa music plug in application as high risk due to the files being used for serving advertisements," it said in its press release.

"As a result Kazaa customers or subscribers running Norton AV are having these files stripped from the application which prevents them from using the service" - however, I don't think there is a lot of people (dare I say, none at all) that use the service as many opted to use other legit ways that didn't have a history of providing adware that were hard to remove or forced us to actually reformat our computers.

To their defence, however, they have actually made mistakes like this in the past - one notable one was Spotify, a European-based service that allowed you to stream music, in January this year.

However, if I was you - stay away from Kazaa. It should have died a long time ago.

According to an Apple Authorised Reseller who will be getting the iPad [In New Zealand], have said the iPad WiFi Will Cost:

16GB: $799

32GB: $999

64GB: $1300

[Prices in NZD]

Please Note: This is NOT an official price but one of a Apple Reseller. So we cannot Guarantee the prices. Please take it as a guide only

The 3G Version is Expected to cost a Extra $150 on the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Models with a later release date. And no word yet on the Carrier for the iPad [In New Zealand].

Remember when Opposition Leader Tony Abbott suggested that women should treat their virginity as a precious gift? Well, in New Zealand, you would most likely see that precious gift online on eBay - by the holder of the gift. The AFP is reporting that a 19-year-old teenager sold her virginity on an undisclosed online auction site and the winning bidder offered her $45,000 to buy it.

She, however, has caused a stir in New Zealand as it sounds like prostitution. Turns out, it has one of the most liberal laws on prostitution since women are legally entitled to seek money for sex.

The money has been used to pay her university tuition.

Sony Ericsson has brought out their new phone with "green credentials at its core" - well according to them anyway. Called the Aspen, the phone is business focus and will feature a QWERTY keyboard, along with using Windows Mobile 6.5.3 as its OS (and it's just a very, very, very small update to WinMo 6.5).

It also features a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth with A2DP, MMS and SMS, Assisted GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack has a 4GB microSD card included. The phone can also be used as a Bluetooth modem, has a touchscreen, and is only 117 x 60 x 12.45 mm in size. It weighs only 130 grams and has a talktime life of up to 10 hours.

It only comes in Black or Silver and will be in selected markets in the second quarter of the year. Gallery is below.

While reaction is mixed about the iPad - mainly on why do we actually need it and the name of the product - t has a lot of features. However, one of them is not Flash - and that has made Adobe a bit pissed off since they continuously advocating for Flash on iPhone, and it looks like it would be the same for the iPad. The lack of Adobe Flash would not allow users to access sites like Hulu or the BBC iPlayer as they depend on Flash as their video player and not QuickTime.

"Without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web," the Flash Platform Team wrote in a blog post.

The team, however, has praised that they are going to be using PDF and ePub formats for its iBooks feature, but criticised them for adding their own DRM on the ePub file format, making any other devices outside of the Apple Ecosystem unable to open the book.

Adobe has been one of the most vocal companies that have criticising Apple's closed app ecosystem where everything is tightly controlled by the Cupertino-based company as all applications must be approved by them before being sold on their App Store.

BREAKING STORY: Apple has announced the iPad, its much-rumoured Apple tablet device. It will feature a 1GHz processor dubbed the "A4", and it is an in-house processor. The screen is not a 10-inch, but it is close to it - a LED-backlit 9.7-inch IPS display; and is only 0.5-inch in thickness and weighs only 1.5 pounds.

The device will also feature Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and an accelerometer so you can turn it around in landscape mode like on the iPhone. Apple claims that it has a battery life of 10 hours.

Like predicted, it will use the iPhone OS; but it will have some modifications, including the dock being similar to Snow Leopard and a background image. Applications can use the big screen as the iPad SDK has been released alongside the iPhone SDK, and iPhone apps can be used on the iPad, either in full screen or in the same screen size as the iPhone, but you would see black borders around it.

The iPad has come out with redesigned applications as well because of the big screen, with the iTunes stores and music app looking like their desktop counterpart. Photos will include Faces and Events that is on iPhoto, while YouTube HD will now be added on their dedicated application.

Also announced was that the iPad would become an eBook reader, rivalling the Amazon Kindle. Called "iBooks", the bookstore will feature five partners at launch - including Penguin and HarperCollins. Apple has also made iPad versions of their iWorks suite, with full document creation and editing tools. They will cost $9.99 for each part of the iWork suite - meaning that you would have to pay about $20 for both Keynote and Numbers.

The iPad will include 3G, after Apple came to a new deal with AT&T. Models with 3G will have a higher pricing, plus will have to pay either $14.99 for 250MB and $29.99 for an unlimited plan. All are unlocked. International 3G plans will be announced shortly in June/July.

The new device will cost $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for the 64GB. The 3G models will start at $629 for 16GB, while 32GB will be priced at $729 and 64GB to be priced at $829. The device will come out in 60 days - or two months approx - for the non-3G iPads, while the 3G models will ship out in 90 days.