Category: Fun
Childline uses smilies to get kids talking about their feelings
We wrote a couple of days ago about a mood app that plots feelings on maps (Glow by Heckcopter) and this web game from Childline is a very similar thing. Except that it doesn't just record your mood out of general interest - it tries to change or improve it. Aimed at kids, the "how…
5 things you didn't know about Chatroulette
The most fun you can have in front of a webcam, Chatroulette is everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat site. But here are five things you didn't know about it: 1. It was founded by a seventeen year-old Russian programmer called Andrey Ternovskiy, who started it for him and his friends to chat on. [NY…
French Connection in rubbish Chatroulette competition
In case you missed the hype Chatroulette started at the end of last year and it randomly connects users from around the world, enabling them to communicate using webcam, text and images. Much of the time though users share webcam footage with each other and much of it is, (our research team reckons about 10%)…
Floppy disk cushions and other storage devices we'd like to see as pillows
Praise be! some one has made a floppy-disk pillow (or indeed cushion as we call 'em in the United Kingdom). Geeks have been actively making techie-themed cushions for a while, a phenomenon we covered in Great Geek Cushions. I guess cuddly tech stuff combines the geek's interest in techie paraphrenalia with their innate desire to…
Catroulette: Chatroulette + Cats = LOVE
Given how weird and fun random chat service Chatroulette is (how addictive it is here), it was only a matter of time before someone made it even better by focussing on what really makes it great: watching other people's cats on webcam. Okay. Catroulette isn't actually a service, it's a tumblr image blog of cats…
What the Gmail lab shake up tells us about Gmaillers
Labs at Gmail just got a little shake-up according to the Gmail blog. Apps that made the cut and have become fully fledged Gmail features include my favourite custom colour labels and youtube previews. Apps that got the boot include "random signatures" and "location in signature". Here's the list: Graduating: Search Autocomplete Go To Label…
Ultimate Geek Chair – Martha Stewart the Prince of Dubai are fans
Need a chair? Need a chair with three screen monitors, reclining base, surround sound, air filtering and light therapy? Think about it. You'll realise that you do. Named the Emperor Workstation, this dark internet-enabled throne is the ultimate geek chair - they've got them in the Google offices, the Prince of Dubai has several and…
Firebox scanners rescue old negatives from photo-death
A pair of scanners dedicated to rescuing old photos, negatives and slides from oblivion has recently gone on sale in e-tailer site Firebox. The two intelligent scanners, the Pics 2 PC and the Pics 2 SD digitise old image content letting you store and use it online. Images can be scanned on any scanner of…
Voucherhub tells us why their UK vouchers are better than other vouchers
Vouchers are big, we're coming out of recession, thrift is chic and getting £10 off Marks&Spencers is always good whatever the global economy is doing. Given the rise of online shopping, it is hardly surprising that sites collecting online vouchers have got big too. Online vouchers are usually promotional codes that you can fill in…
Samsung's OmniPro – hands-on with the clever microwave
More intelligent white goods from Samsung's Vienna show with the OmniPro Microwave. Not only does the OmniPro cook your food, it knows how much to cook your food and makes helpful suggestions based on the weight and humidity of the items you put in it. Packing both weight and humidity sensors in the stainless steel…
