Month: September 2010
Gallery: Super Mario through the ages
He's 25 years old today, but though he's got a lot more pixels than he started off with, he is still true to his old retro looks. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, The Super Mario Bros series is the best-selling video game series of all time, with more than 240 million units sold globally. Apparently the…
iPods over Wedding Rings as most treasured possessions of Generation Facebook
We won't claim it's the most empirical survey in the world, but a study on Facebook by gadget insurers Protect your Bubble found that people valued their iPods over their cats and their wedding rings. The survey asked Facebook users what their most treasured possessions were and iPods came out top with 12% of the…
Ford freezes London's Senate House for projection ice climb
Just how do you freeze a building as iconic as Senate House in London's Russell Square and get it to look like it's being scaled by an ice climber? That was the challenge for interactive arts and technology collective Seeper for their latest project. Rather than put their money into a traditional billboard ad, car…
Twitter users – older than you think..
I'd have put the average age of Twitterers at - oo - 32 or something. But it's actually a bit older than I suspected, 39. Where social networks used to be seen as places teenagers hung out and poked each other, it seems that Twitter has a very respectable middle aged bulge. The results of…
French people more likely to swear in tech reviews than other nations
The French do have a reputation for expressing their passions more freely than us Brits. Turns out that applies to tech reviews as well as to matters of the heart. Reevoo.com which publishes user-generated technology reviews from countries across Europe (UK, France, Spain, Poland and Russia) found that the French speaking reviewers were the ones…
Facebook can make you feel better if you have low self-esteem..
Some cheering news from the world of psychology research. Apparently Facebook can make you feel better if you have low self-esteem. People with low self-esteem were more likely to spend time on Facebook in the first place according to the research by researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh in York University, Canada. That's something we might have guessed…
Google Instant is as fast as Bob Dylan
Nice little trick with the lyrics of Subterrean Homesick Blues that shows Google Instant search can keep with Bob singing. You really have to watch it to understand... It's still not as cool as the Google Wave version of Pulp Fiction, but then, this service seems more useful..
For Camera Geeks on a Budget: Pentax K-r is £600 & has cool paparazzi function
For the camera geek who doesn't want to blow their savings on a camera, this new mid-range digital SLR from Pentax offers many of the advantages of the top end for less. The K-r has a new-generation CMOS image sensor with approximately 12.4 effective megapixels which makes for high-quality, true-to-life image reproduction. Cheap digital SLRs…
Pentax compact camera the Optio RZ1000 is the size of a credit card
They really mean compact this time: Pentax's colourful Optio RS1000 - also known as the Chamelon - is genuinely the size of a credit card. Where credit cards clock up as 85.60 × 53.98 mm, the Chamelon is just a shave larger at 92mm wide by 56mm high. Okay, it's also a bit thicker than…
Supermarket in your pocket: Tescos iPhone app joins Nokia – will you use it?
You'll be able to order food from your iPhone with a new app from grocery giant Tescos. Described as a shopping portal that is specifically optimised for the iPhone, it is basically the equivalent of the Tesco's website but on mobile phone. Laura Wade-Gery, CEO for tesco.com comments: "We're always looking for ways to make…
