Month: July 2010
The Great Gatsby is now a video game..
Yup, it's happened - someone has taken The Great American Novel and made it into A Middling American Computer Game. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is now an online game, available with a free trial on iplay.com. A "hidden object game" it doesn't sound like it will be getting awards for gameplay any time…
Chatroulette for good? HealCam connects patients
Chatroulette is an amazing site spoiled by everyone who uses it. The concept of a carosel of random video conversations with people from all over the world is really interesting it's just sad it ends up with the huge amount of nakeds that it does. Anyway, the clever people at HealthCam have seen the potential…
Where Bloggers fear to tread… Primark
Err, a funny story this week about how a blogger got stopped by security guards for taking pictures of t-shirts. Joe Madden runs a Wordpress blog called Meaningless T-Shirts. It's about those T-Shirts which have random fake slogans on them often referencing places and dates for no discernable reason - San Marino 1982 etc. Just…
Top Ten iPhone 4 jokes
Ah the iPhone 4, so beautiful and yet so flawed. Okay it's not actually that flawed. It just is vulnerable to pressure in a certain special place. Lots of people find that funny. These are our top ten iPhone 4 jokes. Related: Gallery: Top Ten Weird iPhone 4 accessories
Onkyo release CS-545UK: a micro hi-fi for iPod
Described as a micro hi-fi for audiophiles, it's a high-tech but small-space sound system that can play off a CD, iPod, USB or Auxilary connection. That means you can plug this into pretty much anything and get it to play the sound out at good quality. The Onkyo offering is at the top-end of home…
East Coast is sad, people are happier on Sundays:Twitter Mood Map shows how happy America is..
New Yorkers are a bit miserable, Florida is more cheerful and people are happier at night than midday. I love mood maps, we covered a UK one here a few months, and some research Computer Scientists in Boston have just made one for the States using Twitter. Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in…
Microsoft offering little help to victims of Hotmail phishing scam
A hotmail phishing scam that took over more than 10,000 accounts proved to be problematic as a combination of severe hacking and good spelling made the attack particularly convincing. Emails arrived seemingly from friends claiming to be in dire need and requiring money transfers. One claimed that the sender had been mugged in South Africa…
Top AR Developer Howard Ogden on the big names interested in AR and those damn limited internet deals
We asked Howard Odgen about some of the other people getting interested in Augmented Reality, Foursquare for example who recently released "layers" of their own. Though he remained a little tight-lipped about that, he did agree that it would be a big deal. Howard also described a little piece of work he did for Google…
Top AR Developer Howard Ogden on changes in Layar, and why it's still two steps ahead
Here at Shiny Shiny we really like Augmented Reality - the technology that overlays reality with computer data and makes pictures, icons and tweets float over an image of the real world. We are soo into it. Layar is the platform that has brought Augmented Reality to mobile phones [by 2012, it will be on…
MyVelo launches the bike you design yourself online
In the market for a new bike? Then it might be worth checking out MyVelo This enterprising new West London company thinks that most bikes that are sold by traditional retailers, are, well, a little bit boring. It wants to give you the chance to choose the bike you want and you can customise it…
