Month: June 2010
Glastonbury goes Augmented Reality as Orange release GlastoNav as an AR iPhone app
Hot off the back of the Wimbledon Augmented Reality app, Orange have released their Guide to the Glastonbury festival as an Augmented Reality iPhone app. There will be two versions of the Orange GlastoNav application with the simple one available across many different handsets featuring a map of the festival along with the line-up. The iPhone…
Stiletto Speakers – where sound systems meet shoes
If you are fed up with your desk being covered in boxy black and grey gadgets - printers, monitors, hard-drives - you can add a splash of colour with your speakers. Colour - and an unusual shape that is. These stiletto-shaped speaker from GadgetShop are called Gimme Tunes (there's a shoe-related pun there, see if…
FIFA Superstars and 10 social gaming titles we'd love to see
EA didn't choose the Xbox as the platform for its newest major release. It didn't choose the PS3, the Wii or even the lowly old PSP. Nope. It chose Facebook. The game was released last Friday to coincide with the start of the World Cup. Facebookers took to it in their thousands stoked by the…
Shiny Poll: the white iPhone – how do we feel about it?
I've always had mixed feelings about the white iPhone. In some ways it's more special and looks like tool chiselled out of pearl or bone or something. In other ways it just looks more plastic and chavvy. Connundrum. How do you guys feel about it? Opinions welcome in the comments.. Do you like the white…
Gallery: how much is the iPhone 4 like a Leica camera?
In his keynote "here's the iPhone 4!" speech, Steve Jobs compared the phone to a Leica camera - a German camera which became a design icon of the 20th century. "This is beyond the doubt, the most precise thing, and one of the most beautiful we've ever made." Engadget reported him as saying. "Glass on…
FIFA Superstars – EA makes a football Facebook game for the World Cup
If you've got tired of controlling virtual corn and mafia thugs on Facebooks, Playfish have just released a new and topical game - FIFA superstars - letting you manage the football stars of the world. It's all nice and topical what with the World Cup and everything. Plus this Facebook game has some serious pedigree…
Sony Ericsson's new eco-friendly Cedar phone and their retro-cute Walkman phone
Off the back of the new Xperia X8, Sony Ericsson also launched a new phone in their Greenheart range - the Cedar. Promising to merge business functions with a social friendly device, it also claims to be eco friendly: with lower amounts of energy and material used in production and packaging and with an efficient…
Sony Ericsson announces the X8 – a compact, curvy and cheaper Xperia
Swedo-Japanese phone manufacturers Sony Ericsson announced a trio of new phones today including the X8, an addition to their top Xperia range. The X10 is still the flagship phone but the X8, out in September, puts the Xperia qualities in a smaller, more affordable handset. Similar to the X10 mini in size it will also…
HTC Hero gets Android Eclair update…
HTC Hero users will get the newest version of Android - Eclair - at the end of this month. A statement from HTC explained: "The upgrade will come in two parts, the first of which will roll out from this week and will be detected when the Hero next automatically checks for software updates. The…
Head to Head: iPhone 4 vs Nokia N8
Okay, this is a putative head to head. We're going to have to take Steve Jobs' word for what the iPhone 4 can do and my experience of the Nokia flagship N8 is based on a play around with a prototype yesterday, but both these phones will be massive so we wanted to line up…
