Don't even buy this for your worst enemy. While a gun might be more obviously life-threatening, this laptop steering wheel rest really is almost as dangerous. As suggested by the wise writer on RedFerret.net, attaching your laptop to your steering...more
I can only associate 2012 with the London Olympics and that disaster scenario movie 2012, however some people are gazing into the future with clearer eyes than me... and can see what mobile apps we'll be using in that far...more
Casio's new Exilim, the EX-G1 claims to be the slimmest shock resistant camera ever. 19.9mm thick, it's waterproof, dustproof and doesn't break when you drop it from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood from any of...more
Finally a big TV company gets serious about internet TV - Channel 4 has decided to stream whole shows on Youtube, giving UK users legal access to programmes on demand. FTW, as they say. It seems that Google has persuaded...more
A-list geek and FriendFeeder Louis Gray has blamed Facebook for not telling him that his sister had had a baby. Relying on Facebook rather than the telephone to get news out to friends and family, his sister and her partner...more
Want to show your digital snaps to friends without you all having to gather around a tiny LCD screen or mess around hooking up the camera to a big screen? Nikon has the answer. It's the world's first camera with a built in projector.
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In a lot of ways, I am a usb gadget journalist. Despite a little existential quiver about this fact yesterday, I do accept my role with devotion and yes love. Without any more ado, this is the USB missile...more
Okay concentrate: this is an app for ranking apps. It's a Facebook app for ranking mobile phone apps. iPhonearcade will make use of your social network on Facebook to let you share comments and reviews with your friends and see...more
Rough Guide travel books will soon be available as Vodafone apps. Each guide costs only 49p or 49 euro cents, it's a good deal compared to the books which retail at around £6-7. Featuring background information for each destination, 'things...more
Looks like fans of the Twilight film series are suffering more than unsatiated desire in the run-up to the release of New Moon on Friday. An internet scam preying on fans of the series has leveraged a fake virus alert...more
A new social networking site has been set up to help people write books online. Despite the new forms of writing on the internet -blogs etc - books continue to hold sway over people's minds. As such, this e-Publishing House...more
I don't know why I even pretend to be surprised any more at the kind of USB gadgets that get invented. Every week some queer product is presented to the USB port. Who imagines these things.. let's make a vibrating...more
New site Fingertips creates free bespoke news services for its users. The site can combine story feeds from different news sites according to your particular taste and need for certain kinds of news. Fingertips.net claims that it "lets you create...more
Orange today announced a partnership with Twitter, which will enable customers to send photos to Twitter via MMS (multimedia text messages). The service is called snapshot and is only available to UK Orange users. Orange also say that they will...more
Ties that make music are usually tinny, cheap novelty affairs, they probably play Jingle Bells and have LEDs on them as well. So it's a pleasant surprise to find a musical tie that's actually quite a classy and haute proposition....more
Everybody's favourite TV geek crush, David Tennant of Dr Who fame, has joined up with Oxfam to offer an online climate challenge. You must guide David to answer questions about climate change, and pick the correct option out of three...more
If you're thinking of calling your child anything more exotic than John or Mary, then maybe you should check out this pricey but unusual service which offers a "name translation check" pre-christening. TodayTranslations go through pretty well most languages in...more
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