Heart app syncs with your lover's iPhone: an app for Valentine's Day
Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover's iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen swells or shrinks. It also starts to beat more quickly and goes redder. Download the app…
World Surfer – an AR iPhone app that actually works right now
Augmented Reality app Layar may not work on the iPhone for a few months to come, but in the meantime try out AR iPhone app World Surfer 2. Made by San Fran company Geovector, World Surfer 2 is an augmented reality app that, like Layar, lets you point your phone's video camera at the world…
Spotify introduce artist radio and recommended features
Spotify has ramped up its music service by bolting on a new recommended artists feature and artist radio - unleashing all the data it has gathered from user listening habits to create a recommendation engine. The recommendation features take Spotify into the territory of rivals Last.fm and Pandora Radio (an American-only service) - which emphasise…
Whistle and your phone will respond: the Where is My Phone App
A delightful iPhone app from Little Worlds makes your iPhone to respond to your whistle. Train the app "Where is my Phone" to recognise your whistle then programme in a sound that you want it to do in response - a dog's bark, a croak, a laugh or various bodily noises that I'm sure you…
She Wears Your Tee: Fasion Model cuts out middle man with new site
Musicians have been using the internet to cut out the middle man for a while through fan-funded records and suchlike - and it looks like fashion models might be starting to do the same thing. A site called She Wears Your Tee does just that and was started by Tanaya, a fashion model who lives…
Hello Kitty meets Frankenstein: say hello to anatomical kitty
Just when you thought Hello Kitty toys couldn't get weirder, along comes a Hello Kitty toy with a see-through stomach and a collection of visible internal organs. Designed by Dr Romanelli in collaboration with Saniro and Medicom, biology gets a Hello Kitty touch too. Instead of looking like they sort urine from blood or perform…
Estate agents make an iPhone app
An estate agency has become the first British company to make a search-for-a-property iPhone app. The app from Hamptons Estate Agents gives you access to their whole catalogue of properties in the UK (mainly London and South-East) and abroad. You may not be able to afford to the houses, but you can certainly afford the app…
Interview with Britain's top Augmented Reality Specialist: Howard Ogden talks the Beatles app and the future
Developer and entrepreneur Howard Ogden is one of Britain's leaders in the field of Augmented Reality. Through his business augmentreality.co.uk Howard develops Augmented Reality apps for phones on a platform called Layar - available on Google Android phones and on the iPhone 3GS (soon). He is the man behind the Augmented Reality Beatles tour. We…
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Sony Ericsson's new Greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry
Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range. The phone's general features reflect the business niche that Sony Ericsson are gearing their Aspen handset towards: the key point being the Windows Mobile 6.5…