Month: May 2010
OnePoll: The iPhone App That Pays You To Use It
At last! Your iPhone can make you money as well as just costing you, because someone has come up with an app that pays you to use it. OnePoll is a survey app from market research team OnePoll.com that pays you to take surveys on it: anything from 10p to £5 a go. Users can take…
FitFinder – what students are really doing in the library: checking people out and moaning
So it's exam season in universities and students across the country are.. revising? No! they're using a new website (appropriately enough called FitFinder) to check out other students in the library. You can share your crush with the rest of the Library, but interestingly a lot of the messages are complaints about people making too…
Yes, there's an app to help you sky-dive: Airkix for iPhone
You might think that tootling around on your phone is one of the least useful things you can do to prepare for a sky-dive. Surely anything from jumping off your bed to practising trying not to be sick would be more useful. But no! There is now an app to help you skydive - or…
Palm release the Pre Plus, reacquaint us with their sexy operating system but keep schtum about tablets
The new Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus will be hitting UK stores at the end of May - we had a little look at them yesterday and talked to Paul Ghent the VP of Palm Europe. Till the specs come out officially, here are our first impressions.. So what's new? Well, it's…
Jason Calacanis can take a hike, 11 year olds love Facebook
High-profile geeks* be damned, Facebook may be pleased to hear they're doing well with a very important audience: 11 year olds. Some research commissioned for National Family Week next week shows that 28% of pre-teens rank Facebook as the most important thing in their lives - above money, health, sport, pets and school. That's a…
The other thing new social network Disapora teaches us: use Kickstart to get funding
A buzz site this week has been "Diaspora". Billed (a bit prematurely) as a Facebook rival, it's the project of four New York students and got touted in a few places last week as the privacy-friendly alternative to Facebook. Why? largely because it just got funded to the tune of $180,664 (as of today) There…
Three Uses for the Body Transfer tech that makes us think our Avatars are us
Making 30 year old men think they've changed into 10 year old girls sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie - but it's actually a psychological experiment that has just taken place in Barcelona University. It works, and it's our favourite experiment of the week. A story in the New Scientist explains how…
The Personal Breathalyzer is probably a good idea..
How drunk are you actually? It's always a fraught question after a night at the pub. And if it involves you driving home afterwards, it's not one that's best solved by proving you can walk in a straight line while reciting the alphabet backwards. Perhaps an accurate gadget might be more useful. And that's exactly…
Google accused of sexism for censoring cougars but accepting sugardaddies
In another case of a tech company getting involved with public morals, Google came under flak for branding a dating site where older women can meet younger men as "not family safe". This time, the tech giant is accused of being sexist. The founder of Canadian site Cougarlife.com found that Google had classified adverts for…
HTC Wildfire: an affordable Android phone for the Facebook generation
Popping out of a press embargo rather more quickly than expected, the HTC Wildfire is a cute little brother to the Desire and aimed at a younger audience. When a phone is aimed at a younger generation, it usually means two things: 1) it's cheap; 2) it's got some crazy hyperactive social networking interface. The…
