Month: January 2010
Tescos to set up a film studio…?
Okay so this story is more to do with films and supermarkets than consumer technology - but Tesco's ie the British supermarket chain which sell supermarket things like food - have just set up a film studio. To make films with. According to the Observer, Tesco plans to make film adaptations of popular books with…
Augmented Reality shoes from Adidas
Augmented reality cameras and apps we can understand, spectacles yes, and even those augmented reality greetings cards from Hallmark. But shoes? There's no screen, no visual interface.. shoes are just plastic and leather things you put your feet in. But not for much longer. Adidas have promised an augmented reality shoe... The Originals AR Game…
Facebook use rockets 600% on Mobile Web, according to Opera Mini stats
Facebook usage shot up 600% over the last year on mobile phones, says mobile web browser, Opera Mini. Twitter made gains as well according to the browser's stats - being the fastest-growing social network on the mobile web, surging more than 2800% in just one year. Opera Mini is a mobile web browser and records…
Using iPhone apps to keep healthy and fight flu
Well everyone's caught onto how iPhones help your health: whether you want to diet, make a tourniquet for your leg, or err.. have a baby. Hell who even needs a doctor these days [joke]. Anyway if iPhones can be a source of first aid, menstruation calendars and relaxing bell music it stands to reason that…
Tangerine and chrome Serie 1 TV from LG is a retro beauty
Check out this pretty retro TV from Korean company LG, usually more known for taking things forward rather than back. Love the chrome feet on this TV set, the orange casing (that shade of tangerine is pure 60s) and the perky little aerial. A classy sitting room piece if you want to make a design…
Labour beats the Tories – on Twitter…
Labour are hammering the Conservatives on Twitter, if nowhere else... eConsultancy measured how many followers each of the main political parties have and Labour is streets ahead. Combining the official profile with number of followers belonging to MPs from each party, Labour has 113,201 followers, more than both the Conservatives (36,874) and Lib Dems (32,202).…
Personalised Romeo & Juliet: pwn Shakespeare for the weirdest Valentine's day gift ever?
One of the weirdest Valentines gifts that I have ever heard of comes from giftideas.co.uk and it's a personalised edition of Romeo & Juliet. This is personalisation beyond where personalisation has gone before. Instead of just putting an inscription in the frontispiece of a nice edition of this Shakespearean tragedy, and maybe letting you choose…
Stop sentimental vampires – the Twilight backlash
The backlash was inevitable. Twilight's smooth-cheeked smoochy boy-next-door vampires had held sway for too long and people want the real thing back. Real vampires who want to scare the hell out of you then bite you to death, not kiss you and then mope about it afterwards. Well, I'm good with either sort really. I…
Watch Cranford anytime: BBC shows will be available on demand on site See Saw
Some of the online walls around BBC content are about to be broken down though thanks to a deal between BBC Worldwide (the BBC's commercial arm) and a site called See Saw, which will provide video on demand from the BBC Worldwide. From the end of February, shows such as 'That Mitchell & Webb Look',…
"My iPhone got me pregnant" – sort of
You know the way they tell you where babies come from in 3rd form Biology classes? well something they never told me is how iPhones can get involved. No, though you can get iSperm applications, you can't quite download zygotes - yet. A great story from the Scottish Sun reports how an iPhone helped bring life…
