Electric robot lawnmowers? It’s been done to death. Nothing is cooler than eco-tech right now, but this gadget takes it one step further: Knight Industries Two Thousand could be out there cutting your lawn right now. The new Husqvarna Automower is sleek, cool and best of all, you don’t need a cheesy 80s mullet to own one. The Automower is rechargeable and has a solar panel on top for additional charging. Turbo Boost and a wrist watch remote control are sadly lacking. Husqvarna’s site details the feature list in full, but starting at $1299 you really would think you’d be able to jump in and drive on over…

Next time you sit down for a slap-up meal out keep an eye on the waiter – he (or she) may well take your order with an iPad. This replaces older PDA-based ordering systems, and could mean diners can even take a look at luch full-colour pictures of what they are ordering. It may even help restaurants keep an eye on the stock they have in hand. System developed by 4asoft.com. Perhaps you’ll be paying for your meal using an iPad, too. Square today introduced an iPhone credit card payment system, following last month’s introduction of a similar system for the iPhone. Via: PocketLint. Thumbnail image…

Cool UK gadget retailer, Firebox, has begun selling the SmartSwipe, a handy USB device which reads, encrypts and transmits your personal credit card data directly to the online payment page. Now, there’s a lot of insecurity about these days. We’re told hackers and crackers and spammers and other enemies of the people are all working hard to undermine our security and get their hands on our credit card details. SmartSwipe should help beat them at their game. Shoppers just need to swipe their card and click ‘confirm’ usung the onscreen purchase wizard. Your banking details are then encrypted,…

The tragic Kurt Cobain might have left us but this doesn’t mean Nirvana’s record label don’t continue to seek out new opportunities to make money from the artist’s legacy — now it seems Tapulous has inked a deal to bring a dedicated Nirvana game to the iPhone. Nirvana Revenge will feature 13 of the band’s songs in a new variant of the well-recognised Tap Tap Revenge game. Songs will include Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are and Heart Shaped Box plus some live numbers from a UK rock festival. The app should be available later this week for $4.99 via the App Store. There’s a Bluetooth…

Forget preconceived ideas that the techi world’s digital destiny is run by the boys, for the boys – it looks like the girls are driving the digital home, with women downloading twice as much mobile content as men. Surprised? Perhaps, but these are the fresh findings found by US mobile ents firm, Myxer (a peddler of ringtones, wallpapers and video clips). Myxer claims its female users downloaded twice as much content in April as its male users. Women accounted for 67% of its content downloads for the month: 4.5 million in total. Men downloaded just 2.2 million items during the month. Myxer admits…

We’re really liking TomTom’s new daft idea: the Darth Vader navigation pack for TomTom! Narrated (as you can see in the video) by the man who provided the voice for Darth Vader, TomTom’s kit gives you the directions you need, all made a little more interesting by his iconic heavy breathing and slightly threatening tone. Better yet, the voice commands are inspired by lines from the original films, Vader may tell you, “Bear left, to the Dark Side,” for example. You also get Star Wars wallpaper, music and sound-effects from the films including the sound of light sabres and TIE fighters along…

Use your iPhone to monitor your baby remotely. Automatically log your baby’s activity so you gain insight into its sleeping patterns or receive instant notifications when it cries with the app playing a recording your own voice to sooth your child until you arrive. So, I’m a geek, my wife’s a geek and we’re engaged in bringing up a new generation of geeks, and that’s why we’re really pleased to have come across this really rather useful Baby Monitor and Alarm app for the iPhone. What it does? It does it all, really. It will monitor noise in the room of your sleeping child and send an SMS message…

Ever wondered exactly what it would look like, to be able to watch the growth of your favorite flower or plant? Well with this concept piece, you can do just that. Olga Kalugina, a designer hailing from Russia, has come up with this imaginative but highly useful tool called the, “Eye.” For hardcore gardeners, or even those who are interested in electronics, the Eye could be a really helpful way to learn about the growth of a plant of flower. It’s also just plain cool to be able to watch something grow, that you’ve planted with your own hands. The Eye is a see-through pot that monitors the light level, soil…

Get the pizza in, buy the beers and prepare to sign your autumn away on news Electronic Arts will release The Sims 3 for all three consoles and the Nintendo DS this fall. The Sims 3 is already a big seller on the PC and Mac platforms. Millions rushed out to pick up The Sims 3 on the PC/Mac last summer making it the biggest PC launch in EA’s history and the best-selling PC title in 2009. Now, EA says the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS versions of The Sims 3 are on the way. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions will allow content creation and sharing online. The Wii versions gets an exclusive new area Beach…

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has introduced its first promo video pushing what’s positive inside the future BlackBerry 6 OS, set to ship in Q3. It’s an incredibly busy presentation, but you do get to see some album cover-based music navigation, an onscreen (virtual) keyboard, Facebook and Twitter clients, and a quick glance at the new WebKit-based browser. (Note. WebKit is also used in Safari and Firefox). Oh, and don’t miss the consistently touch-based interaction throughout this video as Research In Motion takes it to Cupertino….