Month: March 2010
US store Best Buy comes to Britain bringing blue shirts and cheap gadgets..
Big US electronics retailers Best Buy are moving over to the UK and opening stores in Essex and Croydon. Majoring on the customer service side of electronics retail, Best Buy are also known for their blue shirted geek squads who provide repair and servicing but also pre-sale consultations suggesting what product would work best according…
Toilet plunger inspires emergency $3 wound healer
Inspired by a toliet plunger, a US medical student has come up with a cheap, simple gadget that cleans wounds and could save many lives in diaster areas. MIT student Danielle Zurovcik was walking down a bathroom goods aisle in Kmart when she saw the plunger and noticed its connection to her medical work. How…
Various reasons people have thought up for why Justin Bieber is so popular on the internet
Good god that pouty blond teenager is everywhere: iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and did I mention Twitter. The internet loves him almost as much as it loves sarcastic cats and that's a lot. But given that there are a lot of pop acts out there, why has this one captived the soul of the internet…
iPad apps shaping up to be costly: prices set high for Wall Street Journal
Pricey something? Seems that as soon as you've shelled out for the 'Pad, and then shelled out a bit extra for the 3G version and the data package to go with it, you'll be expected to cough up sizeably more for all the apps and content to go on it. While iPhone/iPod apps tend to…
Does blogging exhaust your soul? Julia Allison calls quits on emotional blog in emotional blog post
Watch out blogaholics - it may seem fun blogging about your dates, friends, sex and chats with famous people while generally becoming a new media love/hate figure - but - it can exhaust your soul. Julia Allison, described by Gawker as a "prolific, conflicted egoblogger", started a personal and party blog NonSociety back in 2006.…
Daily Mail v Facebook tussle continues, the Mail on why Facebook is a toxic drug
You don't go to the Daily Mail's Femail section for insightful comment about web trends and social networking. No, you usually go there because there's a headline saying that Facebook is like mephedrone combined with lesbians and destroying Britain/young lives/society - you know. Then you read the article, boggle for a little bit and may…
Digg vs Reddit vs Stumbleupon vs Buzzfeed vs I-A-B vs Google News
Content. It's the lifeblood of the Internet. It's what we all come here for usually. That and chatting to our chums. There are more content aggregrators on the web than there are pictures of girls in various states of undress. That's probably not true, we're emphasising for effect. There are a lot though. But are…
Phillip Pullman's Jesus story is a boundary-breaking novel, but a pretty conventional app
The new book from Phillip Pullman out from Wednesday is getting a lot of attention for two reasons: 1) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a retelling of the story of the world-famous Bible story, 2) it's also being released as an iPhone app. Only one of those features is making it…
Gamers slaver as Zotac releases "most powerful graphics card in the world"
Zotac have released a new graphics card based on next-generation NVIDIA fermi architecture. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 graphics cards promise to be the world's most powerful graphics cards capable of delivering a phenomenal gaming experience and unmatched processing power. Features include new Microsoft DirectX 11, 32x anti-aliasing, NVIDIA 3D…
Hot Roller Wheels, oddly-shaped roller skates give you a new way to fall over
Yes, after last week's look at one weird form of wheel-based transport the Magic One Wheel, here's another one: Hot Roller wheels. Billed as the progeny of roller skates and skateboards, these hoops with wheels on the bottom and foot plates on the inside require you to make that wiggly motion that skateboarders do. To…