Here's a ringing endorsement for Steve Jobs - Her Majesty the Queen was so wowed when Princes William and Harry showed her an iPad that she now wants one and has ordered the Palace staff to go out and buy her one.. According to the Sun, she loved how big and bright the screen was…

McDonalds will roll out contactless payment card readers to all restaurants in the UK by the end of this month. Contactless credit cards - aka Wave and Pay cards - use Near Field Communication chips embedded on cards to mean that customers just need to wave their card near the reader to make a payment,…

Legal experts warned that Twitter has made super-injunctions redundant, and there may not be any point in future ones if the naming of celebrities in tweets continues. It seems that either super-injunctions - or Twitter - could go down as the crisis comes to a head. People on Twitter have been tweeting about super-injunctions and…

Facebook now lets you control what appears on your list of recent activities. Until now we had to delete items one by one if we wanted to remove things, but Facebook has introduced a "hide all" filter that will block certain types of stories. This means that if you don't want it announced every time…

Kiss Transmission Device by amaliak The machine is designed to transmit the feeling of a kiss, apparently. In reality it's a rotating straw, presented by a painfully geeky kid in a deeply disturbing little video clip. But never mind that - Japanese boffins are on the case, and if they are successful, long distance couples…

There may well be such a thing as too close a match, judging by the above photograph. The displays in Madame Tussaud's aren't fantastic either, but there is just something a bit eerie about robots that are identical twins to their role models. This particular robotic doppelganger is called a Geminoid, presented by the Advanced…

We know our pretty little Macs aren't THAT good - they don't actually repel computer viruses. It's just that until now the Mac market has been too small for most malware programmers to pay much notice, choosing instead to throw their appetites for destruction at the PC market. This could now all be set to…

It's a personal dream of mine to look more like a cat. This gadget is the obvious next step for me. Combining great science with sweet-looking fluffy bits these mind-controlled kitty ears called "necomimi" were made in Japan by fashion company Neurowear. Best of all -they're going to be available in shops. Tiny sensors on…

Intel pulled a ground-breaking chip out of the bag yesterday by releasing a 22nm transistor that will power a leap in the performance of mobile devices over the next few years. One smart little tweak to their existing transistor has doubled its performance and reduced the amount of power it requires. The brainwave was to…