These days Xiaomi, this hyped-up China phone maker, held the first on the net sales with the new Xiaomi Mi3 Smartphone along with the smart MITV, and the two devices had sold outs in merely over 60 seconds or so.

You might need a manual just to unpack the HTC Vive

The HTC Vive is an impressive piece of kit, but it's far from simple. A diagram reportedly included in an email to early adopters this week made that fact very clear by detailing the no fewer than twenty separate items included with the consumer edition. Much of this is the same as the development kits we've already tested (in fact, early models had even more wires), but it's still something else to see a consumer product other than a Lego set shipping with so many pieces.