Month: March 2010

Digital Pen the IRIS Mobile NoteTaker types what you write

Handwriting tool the The IRISnotes Executive 1.0 turns your handwritten notes and sketches into digital data on your Apple Mac. The battery-powered pen and pad - transform scribbled notes and sketches into editable text on a computer. The pen works by recording your hand movements which are then transmitted to a receiver on a clip…

Top 10 Netbooks to buy instead of an iPad

So, an announcement today confirmed the Apple iPad will hit shelves stateside in late April though Brits will have to wait an extra month to get their hands on Apple's holy tablet. But with Steve Jobs' supposedly netbook killing iPad going down about as well as a cool pint of concrete, it would seem that…

Finally, someone has a Chatroulette Party

I know we seem a bit obsessed with Chatroulette on this blog - that's because we are. From the get-go this whole shebang has always looked like A Great Thing To Do With Friends. Doing Chatroulette with a friend is like when you go to a club and sit in the corner making snarky comments…

Shiny Interview: Shoutem CEO Victor Marohnic explains how it pays and where next

Yesterday we reviewed new make-your-own mobile social network site Shoutem. It's just come out of beta, today, we talked to their CEO Crotian entrepreneur Victor Marohnic who told us about why SS: What gave you the idea to make Shoutem? VM: We built two or three social networks in Croatia, but there the total population…

Battery low? back-up batteries for iPhone and Blackberry could be life-savers

It shoots lasers and recharges your iPhone? Surely the two best things in the world ever! The RichardSolo 1800 for iPhone is a pocket-sized back-up battery. Plug the lithium battery into your iPhone's charging dock and it will start to recharge your phone or iPod - really useful for those battery emergencies when the power…

TigerMail – the Tiger Woods app that deletes those embarrassing sex-ts

Do you just have sex with so many people that it gets a bit hard to manage your text messages? Ever worry that your permanent boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse will flick through your phone one day and find an incriminating text or a that a former hook-up will sell an embarrasing sext to the papers? Don't worry, Tiger…

Publishers Random House to make Books out of Video Games

We've heard of the book of the film, but the book of the video game? Yes that exists. Looking to new media for fresh ways to turn a profit, publishers Random House have commissioned two books tied into video game stories. Details are vague but one story is described as being in the "adventure" genre,…

Marvel Comics skins, taking Superheros to your Smartphone

Geeks, wear your geekdom more proudly: in rubbery casing on your gadgets as well as in your heart. Pull a tight Spiderman gelaskin over your iPhone or Pod and bring some superhero to your smartphone. Marvel have teamed up with GelaSkins using the legendary comic art to bring high-drama, sharp-coloured and quintessentially Marvell skins to…

Butterflies on the Notebook: HP's Vivienne Tam Digital Clutch

Well, we said that phones might be dead, but we didn't reckon on fashion laptops disappearing, and my they haven't. HP teamed up with designer Vivienne Tam to release the Digital Clutch, their second collaboration with the designer in two years. The result is a stylish HP 210 mini featuring a case design by Tam.…