Hi all. Just wanted to share with you our exciting big news. Always keen to do something a little different, we have launched our very first magazine. It is called Technode, is 40 pages long and is completely free. You can read about... * The summer's 20 top gadgets. * How 4G Mobile will mean…

Forget touchscreens - how about controlling your iPhone by just TAPPING YOUR HAND? German computer scientists at the Patrick Baudisch at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have come up with some amazing gesture recognition tech which lets you control an iPhone by simply tapping and stroking your own hand. The UPSIDE - this…

You know the way when you type a search term into Google it comes up with relevant search results? Wacko.com does the opposite - it comes up with irrelevant search results. Errr. So it's the brainchild of Loyaltynet Ltd, a company which specialises in "devising novel web sites". However the results aren't purely random -…

Augmented reality brings wonders to the car windscreens of the future as imagined by British car glass manufacturers Autoglass. Autoglass® vision for a revolutionary car windscreen in 2020 with augmented reality, visual sensors & GPS technology. Will the car windscreen display key information about speed, fuel and any issues with parts of the car. Even…

Fellow Apple devotees - you know that feeling you get when unwrapping a brand new piece of kit from Apple? Well, if new research is to be believed, that's how religious people feel when visiting a beautiful church. We've long talked about the "Cult of Apple", but maybe it's more fitting to call it the…

Popular website platform WordPress has announced it will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6. Jane Wells, UX lead for WordPress, explained the reasoning behind this in her blog: "It has required increasingly complex code trickery to make the WordPress dashboard work in the IE6 browser, which was introduced 10 years ago and does not…

Orange customers are the first to be able to pay for goods using their mobile phones - assuming you also are a customer of Barclaycard and have a Samsung Tocco Quick Tap handset. So not the broadest roll-out yet, but it's a good start for something we've been eagerly waiting for. More of us should…

The entire Playboy back catalogue is now available on the iPad. That's right, every playmate, every article and every vintage ad from the magazine's 57 year long history can be viewed on your very own iPad, for $8 a month. Apple doesn't allow porn in the App Store, but Playboy is getting around this by…

The announcement of Layar Connect earlier today promises to do for Augmented Reality what Youtube has done for online video - take it to the big time. We got pretty excited about that. These new content management systems for Augmented Reality will allow non-techie people to upload their own points of interest and create their…