Month: May 2011
Kinect in the Changing Rooms: Trying on TopShop clothes virtually looks GREAT
OOO! We love this. Combining TopShop, augmented reality and gestural control via the Microsoft Kinect - we present - the AR Door Kinect Fitting Room. The Fitting room lets you try on any outfit in the shop by just waving you hand: the virtual clothes pin themselves onto an image of your real body. You…
Scoville: What is it? & should you care?
If you've been getting invitations to Scoville recently, or saw a rash of #toptuesdays on your Twitter feed yesterday, this article is for you. What is it? Should you care? What is top? why Tuesday? #TopTuesday?? EXPLAIN It's where you share awesome places with your friends, on Twitter. On Tuesday? Yes. Why Tuesday? Well the…
Snail mail goes digital: Royal Mail introduces digital watermarks for post
Interested parties will need the Digital Space App, a free app soon to be launched on the App Store and Android Marketplace. Then you hold your phone over the digital watermark on the letter and voila - you have digital mail. Only people with a 3G iPhone or an Android phone can use this though.…
Microsoft close to buying Skype for $8.5 billion – a good idea?
It's not final yet, but speculation has it Microsoft is close to bringing onboard calling service Skype. The deal would set Microsoft back $8.5 billion, and it would be its biggest acquisition to date. Skype has 124 million monthly users, although many of them do not pay for their usage. Overheads are low, though, as…
Google does it bigger: launches its music storage and streaming service 'Music Beta by Google'
Google is throwing its hat in the ring on the music streaming front, with today's launch of Music Beta by Google. Users will now be able to upload their music to a web server, and listen to it using Android phones, tablets and computers. Amazon did something similar back in March, but Google will as…
20 million Facebook users are under the minimum age
You have to be 13 years old to be on Facebook, those are the rules - but a study shows that 20 million children are happily networking away in spite of being too young. 7.5 million of Facebook users were under 13, while over 5 million were younger than 10, according to a study published…
GALLERY: Apple-inspired body modification – the kind of funny, the bad and the worse
Apple is a very popular brand. As you may have noticed, its fans take devotion to the company and its products to an extreme.... But these crazies ultimate brand loyalists have gone even further - actually branding themselves with the brand logo on their BODIES. We bring you - ten of our favourite Apple-themed tattoos…
Why it doesn't matter to Google if the Android appstore make less money than Blackberry's
The Android app store brings in less money than the Blackberry app store, and is millions of dollars behind iTunes in the profit it makes, reports the BBC. Open philosophy is killing Android say the BBC. But Google isn't just in mobile for the cash. While complaints about spam apps and the unwieldy interface on…
iPads eat into PC use, with a third of new owners using other computers less
We could have guessed that people with iPads or other tablets would spend less time on their desktops and laptop computers, but the actual figures, as compiled by Nielson show just what an impact iPads are having on PC use. A third of tablet computer owners now spend less time using their other computer. That's…
Shiny Poll: Giving someone an app as a present – cheeky or charming?
If someone gave you an appfor your birthday, would you slap them? or thank them? The question arose on American blogs last week. With American Mother's Day on Sunday, techies wanted to know whether it was appropriate to give the woman who gave birth to them an app as a present. The answer generally seemed…
