Month: June 2010
Tesco announce iPhone 4 prices – we like the £20 deal
Tesco have finally launched their iPhone 4 pricing plans and we're impressed. The price-slashing supermarket has actually offered a decent £20 a month contract. For £20 a month you'll get unlimited texts, 250 minutes a month and a respectable 1GB of data. (In these dark days of limited data deals, that's not too bad.) Tescos…
The USB-powered itching removal instrument
In a list of unecessary gadgets, surely the USB-powered itching removal instrument would be pushing for a top three position along with the err, burger-shaped hand-warmer and the iPad*.Why someone decided to design and then make the USB-powered itching removal instrument is a mystery to me. But since I'm endlessly fascinated by what people do…
What the new iPhone Operating System iOS4 won't bring to older models
An updated iPhone means an updated operating system, but some nice bits of iOS4 (the all-new sparkly operating system out with iPhone 4) won't be available for the older iPhone models. Updates that won't be making their way down to the iPhone 1 include multitasking. Old iPhones will still be taking things one app at…
When does sharing become oversharing?
Ah nothing better than a blogger's spat, especially a slightly embarrassing one where both urinary tract disfunction and ultimate blogging self-publicist Julia Allison are involved. Writer of the great media and tech blog BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis, got all offended when he was accused of oversharing by another blogger Mark Dery. Jeff writes: "Mark Dery came…
Dell thinking about releasing a tablet on Google Chrome OS
Android isn't the only Operating System Google has in the works, and their new Chrome OS is getting people pretty excited. It spells competition for the iPad and also for Microsoft which has dominated the operating system market in PCs and lately in netbooks. There isn't a successful tablet on Windows yet, and it spells…
Vuzix Wraps – the video specs – go for the cool factor but it's not quite there..
Augmented Reality spectacles - Vuzix Wraps - have just been released with a range of coloured screens. The clip-on screens come in red, blue, amber, and mirror and are branded as a fashion range. They make the AR specs look more like sunglasses and so a little bit cooler than they currently do. It's a…
Hello Real-Time Mash-up Map of the London Tube
If you ever wanted to know exactly how which part of New Oxford Street that Central line tube train was under, you now can now find it out, more or less. A Real-Time mash-up superimposing Transport for London data on a Google Maps page, shows tubes in almost real-time as they travel about under the…
Humans can give computers viruses? Yes.
It's not like your PC will catch conjunctivitis off you, but some research in has concluded that computers can catch viruses off humans... Humans that have been implanted with chips that is. It is rare but increasingly common that humans have chips planted in them for medical or security reasons. According to a story on…
Buff Gamers: they do exist – two Shiny readers show us what they've got
Well, we've had a few entrants so far for our highly scientific quest to prove that video game players aren't all weedy nerds with the bodies of oxgen-starved 60 year olds as some stories claimed a few weeks ago. [Story: Shiny Quest: they're not all like 60 year-old chainsmokers, finding the buff gamers] Gerald of…
Android Awareness: techies love Android, but customers don't know what it is
I was struck by this all over again at the weekend when a friend let me play around with her phone. My friend's not a tech-head but she's a pretty switched on sort of person, uses the internet all the time and uses cameras for work. Anyway she had no idea her Samsung i5700 Galaxy…