Month: May 2011
Bacon Perfume – Firebox strays into FRAGRANCE
Firebox are a gadgets site - but they have decided to stray into the area of sweet perfumes with an Eau de Bacon. Yes it smells like bacon. They could be on to something. Widely acknowledged perfume bible The A-Z Perfume Guide starts like this: "Women say they want a fragrance that drives men wild.…
REVIEW: Canon Legria HF G10 – pro camcorder for the amateurs
Packing a lot of pro-level features in a slim body, the Canon Legria HF G10 is top of Canon's amateur range. And at around £1200, it would stretch the budgets of even the keenest amateur cinematographer. However it is a really solid piece of kit and has a few pleasant surprises... LOOK AND FEEL Design…
REVIEW: Ministry of Sound Headphones MOS004
We had a quick try-out with the Ministry of Sound Headphones - the MOS004s - selling for £19.99 on the Ministry website. They boast: "Stereo headphones with single sided cable, soft-touch and detailed logo. These distinctive headphones pack a punch with 40mm drivers that deliver the purest sounds. High grade leatherette pads give complete comfort…
Book a helicopter with your iPhone: Viator Tourist App gets our approval
Harnessing the power of an existing travel website with 3 million unique visitors a month, Viator is an iPhone app with a nice simple interface that lets you find out tourist stuff nearby and then book it. All from your phone. It's stuff like tours of the Empire State building or helicopter trips over Los…
Poll: Baby Facebook and Baby Like – what other baby names could we get from Facebook?
The Israeli couple who called their baby Like yesterday are just one of a number of proud parents and keen social networkers who have named their children after elements of social networking. Best of all was the Egyptian couple who called their new daughter "Facebook" after the role the social network played in the liberation…
When the Bin is Spying on you: Keeping data private on the Internet of Things
Every so often the Daily Mail likes to publish a story about how the government will put computers in our bins so that they can spy on how much rubbish we're putting out and charge us more money. Well. One or two such pilot projects have failed - but, unfortunately for the Mail, measuring stuff…
Blackberry Playbook takes on iPad 2: on sale from £399 16th June
Blackberry's PlayBook will cost exactly the same as iPad 2 and be on sale from 16th June in UK stores. The 16GB model will retail for £399 from Dixons Retail, owner of Currys and PC World, Carphone Warehouse, Insight UK and Phones 4u. The 16GB wifi-only model is the only one to be made available…
No rude Playlist names say Spotify
Seems like some people have been thinking up rude names for their playlists on Spotify: as the music service has gone so far to explicitly ban it in their new End User Agreement. The document states that you can be withdrawn from Spotify Social if you are found to be writing rude things. "Examples of…
From smart barbies to blood pressure: 10 Ways we're Going to use the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things - that dreamy world where everything from the bus to a packet of tomatoes is on the internet - was the focus of techie conference - Mobile Monday London yesterday. And at one stage - the brains of the panel - sat down and brainstormed the main ways we're going to…
Trafalgar Square Bomb Scare: did citizen journalism really break the story?
Just a quick post on this: I just got an email telling me that citizen journalists had broken the London bomb scare story this morning (currently the most read story on the BBC website) well before the mainstream media got onto it. It's true, in a way: the bombscare happened at 9am, and shut down…
