Month: June 2010
Hands-On with the Nokia N8 – a quick look at the hardware
We glimpsed a prototype of Nokia's N8 today. The flagship smartphone takes over from the n900 as the latest in the N-series range and will hit the UK in September. We take a look at the hardware in the N8 including the uber specced camera (12 megapixels, a wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens and flash) and…
Drugs from the sea? Marine Biology centre in Aberdeen opens to dredge secrets from the ocean
A new marine biology research centre has just opened in the University of Aberdeen, hoping to dredge useful drugs and information about bacteria from the depths of the ocean. The £1.6 million centre officially opens its doors today and promises to harness the potential of natural resources from the depths of the world's oceans to…
Say it with a USB Message fan: LEDs spell out words
Why say it with flowers or a text message, when you could say it with a USB-powered LED message fan? Brando, the masters of USB gadgets, have made a fan that doubles up as a cute LED-lit messsage board allowing you to spell out any 16 character message: messages such as "sorry" or "I love…
Gallery: Ten Best iPhone 4 accessories
It's shiny, sleeker than ever before and it can be in your pocket from 24th June. We take a look at the accessories that protect, enhance or just decorate the new love of your life. As we mentioned before, fitted iPhone 3G and 3Gs cases won't fit on its slender frame so unless your current…
The world's smallest mp3 players
In a recent survey of female Japanese tech consumers, they ranked the size of a gadget the most important thing they look for when buying a new gizmo. Now, I'd never thought that Japanese girls and myself had that much in common -- and in many ways, that's still the case. However, I too love…
Did you know that you can scroll down your iPad screen with your tongue?
Well now you do. Because you can apparently, one guy tried it out so you don't have to. I don't know what the side effects were: but bacterial infection is the first one to spring to mind. Can you get salmonella from an iPad? Well it wouldn't surprise me, which is probably why Apple designed…
Shiny Quest: they're not all like 60 year-old chainsmokers, finding the buff gamers
Okay, I know we're inviting trouble here, but we're starting a quest to find healthy, toned, even buff people who play computer games. The Telegraph have taken a pot at the gaming community by claiming in an article that heavy game players have the bodies of 60 year old chainsmokers, and we think it's only…
A Boob Lamp: great
Oh dear, another year, another Boob Lamp. The human race doesn't learn from its mistakes, it just continues in its blind race to make more household gadgets shaped like body parts. Marketed especially at "lonely men", the Boob Lamp from SourceSquare promises to shed a "warm and soft light" through your room while enhancing your…
Psychology the iPhone app: why personality questionnaires are an app store winner
Nothing like a personality test to get people opening their wallets, or rather, making micropayments over iTunes. Psychology, an app from Chicago has just sold 1million units worldwide putting in the top 100 trivia games in the app store. And for what is essentially a 2 dollar (£1.19) bundle of multiple choice questions, it has…
Poll: Should iPhone 4's video chat be compatible with Skype?
Skype are keen to make their video chat service compatible with the iPhone 4's new FaceTime calls, but will Apple bite on it? A source at Skype told Pocket Lint: "We would welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to bring mobile video calling not only to our many millions of Skype users on iPhone…
