Canon launches EOS 550D – top range consumer digital SLR
Canon has just released its most advanced consumer digital SLR camera to date. If you are a keen amateur professional, this is probably the best bit of kit you can get your hands on right now. The EOS 550D comes from Canon's acclaimed EOS range and melds some impressive features with a compact, light-weight body.…
Canon's sleek new IXUS 130 and 105 cameras, activate with a wink
Glimmering in metallic candy colours, Canon have released a few new additions to their IXUS range of small sleek user-friendly cameras. The IXUS 130 and 105 have some fun features thrown into their slender colourful cases: Both models feature a 28mm wide angle 4x zoom lens - allowing you to fit everyone in the frame…
Chatroulette: video-chat with randoms on scary but addictive new site
Everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat website seems to be Chatroulette. Like Skype gone bad, it's a simple video chat service that requires no log-in, no registration and confronts you with a succession of complete strangers in one-on-one video chat. Full marks to the anonymous site creators for making Chatroulette easy, just go to the…
Five reasons Foursquare will be this year's Twitter
The location-based game Foursquare has been rocketing to success with US visits to the site jumping 50% in January according to Hitwise. We reviewed the app back when it hit London in October, but looks like it's finally taking off, and with such impressive growth figures it looks like Foursquare could be 2010's Twitter. "Our…
3D touchscreens? Why Samsung think pressure-sensitive screens are the next big thing
In an exciting move, Samsung Electro-Mechanics have just purchased a technology called Quantum Tunnelling Composite or QTC that brings third dimension to touch screens. Samsung claims that QTC will allow devices like phones to accept 3D input - by being pressure sensitive. Press hard on the scroll button and the page moves faster, softer, and…
Shiny Poll: Facebook's new homepage – are you a fan?
Kudos to Facebook for continuing to innovate. The homepage of Facebook's 350 million users has just undergone a big front-end update that forefronts what's new and makes it just that bit harder to log out (two clicks not one now). It pushes Facebook marketplace to the front, tidies apps up in a list, makes you…
Nokia maps app – Ovi Maps gets a million downloads in a week
Ovi Maps has been a run-away success on the Nokia app store with the maps and navigation app racing past 1 million downloads in a single week. "We're averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day," said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. "When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it…
Story-books that read themselves: Penguin's interactive Qbooks
Soon bed-time stories will be able to read themselves to your kids. Penguin's new digital Qbooks for kids bring touch and voice technology to popular children's picture books. So you may not need to be there for their bedtime - but you'd better make sure the iPad is. These digital picture books or Qbooks from…
A Shredder with a twist: White Goat makes loo roll out of office paper
I'd heard of pasta-making machines, but not toilet-paper manufacturing ones. But a Japanese company have taken recycling to a new level by making one. And not only have they made it, they've called it White Goat which is a great name for a gadget and captures the chewing and masticating functions of the machine perfectly.…
We do want privacy: half of Facebook users have customised their privacy settings
Facebook released some stats on how users have adapted to the new privacy environment on the site, introduced at the beginning of December. There were worries that people wouldn't bother to customise their privacy settings and would just let Facebook's new public-by-default policy sweep them into public view by accident. But it looks like people…
