Avon has created a #NoFilter lipstick, for the perfect selfie pout
Like so many other brands these days, Avon Cosmetics is hoping to capitalise on our need to take perfect selfies constantly, with a new #NoFilter lipstick. Named the Ultra Colour Bold Lipstick, it’s Avon’s highest concentrated lipstick yet, formulated with Avon’s exclusive Pigment Loading Technology, claiming to give the wearer 'highly pigmented bullet' and a…
3D printers can make medication implants now
Scientists from Louisiana Tech University have pioneered a new way to deliver medication using a standard 3D printer. As Science Daily reports, the research team, which was made up of staff and doctoral students from the biomedical engineering and nanosystems engineering courses, designed extruders (the nozzle that pushes out the end product) suitable for medical-grade…
It’s official: US Copyright Office declares animal selfies can’t belong to humans
Remember the macaque selfie saga that's been raging for the past year or so? Well, the quick and dirty story is that a macaque stole a photographer's camera. She then took a load of selfies. They were the best selfies anyone had ever seen, so sites like Wikipedia published them. But the photographer who owned…
Swiss start-up creates a ‘chair you can wear’
There are many places where it's unacceptable to plonk yourself on the floor out of tiredness: the train, the pavement, the loo. But Swiss start-up company noonee has created the a prototype for the 'Chairless Chair' to solve this problem and allow you to take a rest whenever, wherever you need to. As reported on CNN, the device…
Mobile rumours: Galaxy Note 4 Camera specs, Moto X+1 spotted
The world of mobile news is scary and complicated, with rumours flying about all over the place about what the many different companies are planning on doing. If you don’t know what you’re looking for then chances are you won’t get very far, so to ease your burden here are some of today’s biggest mobile…
Apple rumours: parked car locator, 128GB iPhone 6
Those Apple rumours just keep coming, especially coming up to the iPhone 6′s rumoured launch window, and keeping up with them all is proving to be a difficult task. To keep you up to speed, here is today’s round-up of the biggest Apple rumours and news. 1. A new patent describes locating your car with…
A new computer program knows how you feel
Researchers in Bangladesh have invented a new computer program that can guess how you feel. Its developers say this is the first time keystroke patterns and text input analysis have been combined. In their study, which was published this week in Behaviour & Information Technology, A.F.M. Nazmul Haque Nahin and his colleagues say that the…
Belaqise: Clothing brand changes S, M, L to ‘beautiful’, ‘amazing’ and ‘fabulous
An innovative clothing brand from Holland wants to change the way we label and talk about the size of our bodies. The first step in making such a huge cultural shift? Do away with 'small', 'medium' and 'large' and replace them with 'beautiful', 'amazing' and 'fabulous'. Sounds great in theory, but will these new labels…
ABC’s Selfie has become the first ever TV pilot to be shareable via Twitter
We wouldn’t expect anything less from a TV show called ‘Selfie’, but it’s become the first TV show to ever get its pilot episode available and shareable through Twitter. Starting yesterday morning, ABC made the entire 22-minute pilot episode of the comedy, starring Doctor Who actor and Britain’s very own Karen Gillian, available to watch…
How to complain on Twitter: A six step plan for sure-fire social justice
Whether it’s dodgy products, bad food or collective public rage, Twitter is now apparently the quickest way to get a response from a brand. But that’s only when they do respond. It’s also the least satisfying channel for complaints, with only 39 per cent of UK organisations able to answer questions successfully through their Twitter…
