Fantasy Festival: Last FM app lets you create the new Glastonbury
Last.fm has been a bit quiet recently as Spotify corners the online music streaming. However cute little apps like this Fantasy Festival from Sony could bring a bit of life back into the site - still a hangout for music purists and adventurers. Sony's Fantasy Festival combines music with the slightly nerdy attraction of the…
Spotify not coming to Xbox or Playstation.. yet
One of 2009's hottest web services, free music application Spotify is not quite about to take over the world. Though a hit on PCs and smartphones, the service won't be making the transition onto games consoles in the near future. Rumours that Spotify would be incorporated into the Xbox 360 and PS3 were squashed by…
Top Google searches 2009: why the UK would love a bargain celebrity-endorsed swine flu remedy
The time has come. Once a year Google delves into its information treasure trove and coughs up a few nuggets of trivia to amuse us simple netizens. Yesterday, they revealed the UK's most searched terms of 2009, along with a look back at the hottest topics of the "noughties", as seen through Google searches across…
Snoop Dogg records with err.. TomTom
In one of the more surprising collaborations of the 21st century Snoop Dogg is recording with TomTom, the GPS gadget makers. A little bit out of the ordinary for Snoop Dogg who is better known for his rap records such as Pay tha Cost to be tha Boss and collaborations with serious figures in hip-hop.…
Wii accessories get big: the exercise bike and dumbells
Wii accessories are getting bigger. That simple tilt sensitive controller will shortly be joined by a full-blown wii-connected exercise bike. Made by Big Ben Interactive the Cyberbike is an exercise bike - but an exercise bike made interesting by its connection to one of the decade's biggest games consoles. No longer do you just have…
The top 10 Bing searches for 2009 – Swine Flu, Twitter and, err, Cash For Clunkers
Microsoft's search engine Bing might actually be only half a year old, but that hasn't stopped it from getting in early with a top 10 searches for 2009. Usually these lists are fairly predictable and the Bing one is no exception. Jacko takes top spot with Swine Flu (which back in the spring was going…
The globe that talks back – IWOOT's Interactive Smart Globe
For Geography freaks like myself globes are items of real beauty. However as great as spinning a globe, perusing the world and deciding where you are going on holiday is, I can't help feeling that most globes are a bit two dimensional. Step forward gadget site IWOOT which has just snapped up what sound sounds…
Motorola Droid's UK debut just days away
It has been a while coming but apparently Motorola's hottest new smartphone, the Droid (aka the Milestone), will be landing in the UK within five days. According to website thenextweb it will be on sale via the retailer Expansys by the end of the week. There's no confirmation as to which networks will take the…
Nokia's X6 is coming with music, and it's coming soon
We're all getting a bit excited about the Nokia X6 Comes With Music. As the name suggests, this touchscreen smartphone was built to listen to music on. It has 32gig of storage and 35 hours of music-playing battery life - it's a powerful phone with one stand-out feature: unlimited music downloads. Yes, unlimited free downloads…
Why Wii is a girl's best friend
Eighty per cent of female gamers own Wiis, show stats just released by Nintendo. Xbox has 11% of the market and PlayStation 3 has 9% but - with a staggering majority it's clear that Nintendo PWNs the female games console market. A quarter of the total number of games console owners in the States are…
