Month: December 2011

Sir David Attenborough unveils Sky 3D movie "The Bachelor King 3D"

Last night we went along with our friends at Tech Digest to see the premiere of Sky 3D's latest movie, The Bachelor King 3D. The movie tracks the trials and triumphs of a King penguin from adolescence to adulthood and it's narrated by natural history legend, Sir David Attenborough. Gerald from Tech Digest got the…

Unroll.me gets rid of unwanted email subscriptions quickly & easily

I'm sure we're not the only ones who get into the office on a morning and find 7,754,489 unread emails from random sites, services and spammers. Some of them have handy little unsubscribe buttons within the email, but others take you through an online labyrinth just to press the "PLEASE STOP EMAILING ME" button. Well…

Nokia unveils the Batman Lumia phone for The Dark Knight Rises

Today the prologue to the highly anticipated final instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, was shown to a (very lucky) select few at IMAX cinemas across the nation. According to online sources, the six minute prologue was impressive, action-packed and well worth the trip, despite some saying bad guy Bane's voice…

Do you like the look of the world's first recyclable designer headphones?

All kinds of brands are increasingly pioneering recyclable products, we particularly love the efforts from shoe companies like Urshuz, but we haven't seen much recyclable tech in the past few years that really impresses us. Well today we came across these lovely headphones on Springwise and couldn't believe that they're recyclable and look good too.…

Connected Health Store: Shiny Media launches health gadgets & apps site

Today Shiny Media (the company behind your favourite place on the interwebz, Shiny Shiny) has launched a brand new website dedicated to the world of health and fitness technology. The new site, called the Connected Health Store, will focus on the latest news from the worlds of health and technology, as well as the increasingly…

Cool use of Instagram: B.Luxo dreamy fashion editorial

We've seen plenty of interesting uses of Instagram over the past year, from popular bands to tourist boards and although we've come across our fair share of fashion brands sharing snaps on the platform too, this instant fashion editorial idea from Brazilian vintage store B.Luxo is very cool. The quirky couple behind the store decided…

Will Spotify competitor Rara appeal to the mass market?

Today a new digital music streaming service called Rara has been launched, which is set to rival Spotify. Hmm, we've not heard that one before... What is it? Aside from the fact it's got a ridiculous name (which is both a skirt and slang for a posh person), Rara looks pretty interesting. The service offers…

Will Bottlenose change the way we use social media?

If you're the type of person who signs up to every new social network as soon as it launches, tweets, updates their status and likes everything on Facebook, snaps photos for Instagram and Flickr, pins a load of photos on Pinterest and reads all kinds of blogs, then just getting through the sea of information…

CameraBag 2 Desktop is Instagram for your computer

The CameraBag photo app is one of our favourites, it's super simple and lets you flick through just a few great quality filters and apply them instantly. So, we were excited to hear that CameraBag's cool filters and intuitive way of working has come to our desktops. CameraBag 2 Desktop is a way to add…