Month: September 2010
Lyric Legend App turns iPhone into a Karaoke device
For those of you less musically gifted than your peers, this iPhone app might let you unleash your talents in a karaoke-style game you could actually win. To do well in the game, all you need to do is learn the lyrics. Called Lyric Legend it's all about getting the words right and the tune…
Putty Monsters – we "review" the squishy desk toy
Saskia gets to grips with the Putty Monster. £9.99 on Firebox.com. A variation on Firebox bestseller Thinking Putty, we look at what makes this, so uh, monstrous.
Retro Laptop Bags from Maddie Powers, have sass and a nice comfy bit for your computer
Saskia (our lovely intern for the week) looks at two of the darndest cutest laptop bags ever to have entered Shiny Towers. With velvet and vinyl exteriors, they're retro alright, but do they do the job, and would you actually pay that much money for a bag..? The Sheba is £79.99, and the larger Messenger…
Portable Computers from the Past: what the Nokia Booklet 3g can teach today's computer makers
Portable computers are hot hot hot right now, but while mobile phone makers are dying to get into the market, it's hard to get it right. The Nokia Booklet was unveiled in August 2009, but despite having some damn fine features, it never took off. We look at the lessons to be learned from this…
BT app opens up their Wifi hotspots to iPhone and Android
It's a free app that gives you free fast wifi at hotspots all around Britain. Unfortunately it's only for smartphone-owning BT subscribers but if that's you - then you're in luck. BT just announced an app for iPhone and Android that will automatically customers to its network of 1.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots. All else being…
Ramp up your iPad's memory to 100gb with iPad Media Streaming
If you opted for the cheaper 16gb iPad to save yourself a few precious pennies, then you can bump the memory up on your device by using a new service from PC World. Called iPad media streaming it allows you to store media securely online and then access it through live streaming. As long as…
Top Ten Gadgets from IFA 2010: a video round-up
Gadget show IFA in Berlin last week brought a host of new gadgets into the spotlight. It is the year of the Tablet so many of the top gadgets were tablets, some cheap knock-offs of the iPad, others really interesting in their own right. Otherwise it was all about 3D - the TVs, the cameras…
Facebook Places – looks like the take-up is slow..
Just a little word on the Tweetvine - but it seems that Facebook's Places is taking a while to get off the ground. Launched to a hype storm in the middle of August the service lets you check in at places with your Facebook account. Just like check-in services Foursquare and Gowalla it works on…
Royal Mail make a Smart Stamp: stamps are suddenly interesting
If you thought stamps with pictures of railways on them were boring - think again. Royal Mail have just released the coolest stamp of a train ever. It's a smart stamp that has a code that can be read by Android handsets or iPhones. Scanning the stamp with the right app lets you unlock a…
IFA 2010: Toshiba's FOLIO 100 Tablet has Android, Flash and nice price tag
Fans of the tablet computer have a lot to enjoy in this year's IFA offerings. The strongest contender in the field is the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but Toshiba's Folio 100 mobile device is pretty interesting too. Folio's trump card here is the Android OS - Android 2.2 aka Freyo. That means a lot of apps…