What? you thought there already was a UK Kindle store? Well actually no there wasn't. Before today UK Kindle owners get routed to the US store when they wanted to buy books. They had to pay in dollars and they didn't have access to the full selection of titles available, only a smaller number that…

Well, this isn't really about technology. But it is about cakes so I'm just going to barge ahead with this one. Bakers are creating a massive cake city in Covent Garden London, at a location called The Future Gallery. In what they claim is an art installation meets bake-off Tate & Lyle have sponsored some…

A little thought for the day - what if a sun flare blew the circuits on the satellites orbiting the earth and destroyed the world's GPS system? Just a little disaster scenario for you to mull over. The issue has come to light because - yes - there has been a sun-flare and yes it…

I've just been on the radio (briefly) chatting about whether GPS and sat navs are eroding our sense of geography. Whether we're so busy peering at our screens that we don't see the lambs gambolling in the field nearby or whether we never bother to learn where places are because we know we can just…

Sony Ericsson are releasing their x10 mini pro in white as a little something for the summer. The x10 mini is a scaled-down version of Sony Ericsson's flagship phone - the X10. The strapline is "Mini but Mighty" and it does pack a lot of power in its 90 x 52 x 17 mm frame.…

I spent this morning getting all excited about the Emotiv Epoc. It's headset which uses electrodes sitting on your skin to read your brain waves. Using data about the amount of activity in different parts of your mind, it can perform simple tasks like moving objects on a computer screen. In future they hope for…

Control computers with your brain? Yup. A consumer version of those electrode headsets that doctors use to measure brain waves in patients, the Epoc from Emotiv can read your mind. And then help you lift things up and down in computer games The technology seems to be at quite an elementary level, with the signal…

Some days you get wacky press releases, but not everyday do you get ones as wacky as this. Turn your iPhone on yourself, says author Greg Dawe, and let it look into the void within. In something that sounds like script notes for the film Inception, he suggests we use our iPhones to read our…