A delightful iPhone app from Little Worlds makes your iPhone to respond to your whistle. Train the app "Where is my Phone" to recognise your whistle then programme in a sound that you want it to do in response -...more
Musicians have been using the internet to cut out the middle man for a while through fan-funded records and suchlike - and it looks like fashion models might be starting to do the same thing. A site called She Wears...more
Just when you thought Hello Kitty toys couldn't get weirder, along comes a Hello Kitty toy with a see-through stomach and a collection of visible internal organs. Designed by Dr Romanelli in collaboration with Saniro and Medicom, biology gets a...more
An estate agency has become the first British company to make a search-for-a-property iPhone app. The app from Hamptons Estate Agents gives you access to their whole catalogue of properties in the UK (mainly London and South-East) and abroad. You...more
Developer and entrepreneur Howard Ogden is one of Britain's leaders in the field of Augmented Reality. Through his business augmentreality.co.uk Howard develops Augmented Reality apps for phones on a platform called Layar - available on Google Android phones and...more
Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range. The phone's general features reflect the business niche that Sony...more
Site of the week goes to Checklists.com. As a list-a-holic, a collection of lists arranged in a list format gives me great pleasure. The site is a collection of pre-made check lists for individual situations. Obviously a lot of lists...more
A bleak struggle with my inbox and the general abundance of articles like this about information overload, reminded me of this talk from web theorist and author of Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky. Shirky tells us it's not the amount...more
Anyone hoping to make an internet start-up work should go for the mobile platform first, then do a standard website after, said technocrat and founder of the Geek Squad, Robert Stephens in an interesting interview with sustainablejournalism.org. Mobile is where...more
The government is floundering around trying to help the 16-24 year-old generation, who seem to have got shafted by the recession. Job-wise anyway. For those still in college, here's a chance from Microsoft to get a few web skillz that...more
The Met Office have just released an iPhone app - providing weather forecasts prescisely tuned to where you are using your phone. The app is free, has got enthusiastic reviews and seems to be both well-made and user-friendly plus streaming...more
So, we finally got the measurements, and case makers have already got busy and there are at least two ranges out already that I've heard of. The iPad poses an interesting dilemma for the casemakers - smartphones get tight-fitting skins,...more
iPhone and iPod touch apps will work on the iPad without needing to be rebuilt for the new format, Steve Jobs told us yesterday. You will be able to sync your iPad directly with your iPhone or Pod and get...more
Could this be device that breaks Apple into the business market? Will the suits and office workers of the next five years be pulling iPads out of their briefcases? Yes argues blogger Matt McHugh brought to our attention in a...more
I don't know whether the name endears it to women or just makes them think that they didn't get asked to the marketing team's focus groups, but it has certainly made it get some female attention, outside the crowd of...more
Launched to hype, applause, and a breathless audience Apple's iPad has been eagerly awaited. Some don't like the name, others were expecting more of a wow factor but we still got a pretty interesting product. Steve Jobs described the iPad...more
Okay, so now that #iTampon is currently trending higher than #iPad on Twitter, we gotta ask why Apple made their Jesus gadget sound like a virtual sanitary product? The iPad name has raised a few thousand snarky comments on Twitter....more
Even though fangirls and boys were disappointed by the name (is that sanitary towel?) and pleased but not thrilled by the giant iPod touch that Apple demo-ed, the price is good, lower than the $800 or $1000 suggested. iPad prices...more
Apple sticks with American network provider AT&T offering two deals a slightly stingy 250mb of data for $14.99 and unlimited internet costs $29.99....more
Apps on the iPhone app store will upgrade seamlessly to the iPad. They simply size up and don't need to be rebuilt to work on this new platform. Steve Jobs demoed Youtube in HD and a location sensitive Maps application....more
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