Month: December 2009
Video Review: Nokia X6 Comes With Music
On paper this is Nokia's best handset in a while. It has a touchscreen interface, a great camera, shedloads of storage and Nokia's Spotify-a-like Comes with music facility. So is it an iPhone rival? Has Nokia produced a game-changing mobile? Andrea gives it a spin: Nokia X6 Sim-Free at £449 from Nokia.com
Italian Vogue do fashion shoot in the style of Twitpic
I don't really understand fashion shoots. To my limited mind a picture of a woman in a jacket is a picture of a woman in a jacket and all references to 80s TV shows or Chanel's '02 collection, or the transience of love is completely lost on me. One fashion-shoot reference that I did get…
Furniture designed like ice-cream and xylophones: surprisingly cute
The idea of sitting-room furniture designed like an ice-cream sounds a bit out there - would that be a round lump? Or a cone? But Jellio (strapline: fun by design) have designed a bench based on a ice-cream slider and the result is sweet and retro. Made from solid foam, it's 48 inches long and…
Social Shopping: how we'll be shopping online in 2010
E-retailers hope to bring some emotional spark to the experience of shopping on line according to a trend-piece on ReadWriteWeb. The next big thing in web retail? Social Shopping. Hoping to replicate online the experience of trawling around TopShop with your two best friends, Social Shopping brings the power of emotion to online stores. Recommendations…
HTC's 2010 phones leaked: we pick our top three
HTC's plans for 2010 have been splashed across Engadget, and there are some gems in next year's line-up. The creators of the Hero have a new generation of Android handsets on the way and are also running a line in productivity-focussed Windows phones. HTC's offerings are split up into four areas - design; social/lifestyle; performance;…
World's Smallest Snowman
I like it when scientists use top-flight technology to do cute little things. So was pretty pleased to see this cute ickle snowman created by the National Physical Laboratory - which at a slender 0.01mm wide is probably the smallest snowman in existence. It's approximately a fifth the width of a human hair. Disappointingly, it's…
Fed up with tweeting in English? translate tweets to Klingon
How many of your Twitter followers understand Klingon? You can soon find out, by using this helpful Twitter app which translates tweets into that language spoken by the fictional warrior race in Star Trek. It's called http://tweetinklingon.com/ Great. Or "Dun" as a Klingon would say. You can only write 100 characters English, leaving the Klingon-generator…
Tiny lego guitars (!!1)
If there's one thing better than tiny replicas of real things, it's tiny replicas of real things made out of lego. If I had had these as a kid, well.. I'd have probably just swallowed them. Some things you don't appreciate when you're a kid. See more lovely pictures on lego wow [via Boing Boing]
IREX robo festival throws up some mechanical beauties..
One day, I'm going to go the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) in Tokyo. In the meantime, I can obsessively pore over the photos from the event on their website. It finished last week. Hundreds of robots gathered and sat around doing their thing. It finished on 28th November, and as the organisers said in sweet…
Space Beer? yes, it exists
Um fancy some beer that's been to space? Well, now you can get some. They're not left-over bottles from a space mission that didn't quite get drunk nor did Nasa specially fly out a few cans one year. No, not space beer like that, but the barley used to make the beer is descended from…
