Dance puppet dance: Dance for your right to change the channel

A dance mat for a TV remote? It sounds like a fat kid's nightmare. But what a great way to get them off the sofa while they surf their favourite channels. TV remotes are without a doubt a lazy mans tool - it does all the work while you bask in your favourite position on…

BBC unveils new mobile version of BBC homepage

The Beeb wants to ensure your BBC mobile experience is a personal one, so its only gone and created a new mobile friendly and fully customisable version of its homepage. The new homepage has one aim, and one aim only - that is to make your BBC experience on your mobile a tailored one (ergo…

Android apps yours today in exchange for your cash

We said Android apps would be available for purchase in Q1 in the UK and we didn't disappoint. As of today, downloadable paid-for apps for the Android operating system are yours for the taking. In exchange for a small fraction of your hard earned cash, you'll be able to browse the app store, or Android…

iPod Nano gets Inked

With all the buzz besieging the new iPod Shuffle and its tiny frame, I thought I'd take the limelight off it for a few minutes by featuring an iPod Nano accessory (not that you could ever forget they make other iPod apparatus). When you bought your new iPod Nano, I bet it took a while…

New iPod shuffle goes for the microscopic look

If you thought the iPod Shuffle was about as miniscule as a quality MP3 player could get, feast your eyes on its successor and overall crown wearer of the teensiest MP3 player to have ever graced the planet. At nearly half the size of the preceding Shuffle, the latest iteration of Apple's most budget iPod…

Nokia goes for gold with the release of three musically equipped handsets

Nokia has seen the future, and it involves music. Well that's what they'd have us believe based on the slew of musically equipped handsets it has delivered over the past year. And now there are three more to augment Nokia's collection of music-based handsets. An assortment of budget to high-end, Nokia's latest handsets cater to…

Be the life and soul social outcast at your next party

This is right up there with those propeller hats worn by Screetch in Save By The Bell and many a nerdlinger, isn't it? If this guy was in the hallway of an American high school as opposed to a discotheque, he would incontrovertibly be getting the shi* kicked out of him now, or maybe even…

Facebook forcing users to new design… again

September was a terrible time for a majority of Facebook users last year and the social media ultimately received a FAIL from many a Facebook aficionado in the design department. What with the backlash that ensued as a result of forcing its users to a new layout, you would have thought Facebook would have at…

Apple to release netbook after all?

There's been a lot of back and fourth in the will they/won't they department regarding an Apple netbook. Apple fanboys with copious amounts of spare time have even been mocking up their very own teaser versions and publishing pictures online, much to the resentment of other Apple fans who simply can't dedicate their life to…

Hyundai tries its hand at taking on the mobile phone

Hyundai's been getting very involved in the technological arena of late. First it's a slew of handsets - and not too impressive ones at that - including the one with the dolphin integrated into its surface. Now it's tackling the mobile phone again... rugby tackling. That's right, joining LG, Phenom and Sony Ericsson and the…