Jason Bradbury, best known for The Gadget Show (oh, hi! Did we mention we're partnering with them for The Gadget Show Live?!) has published a kids book, and hallelujah! It's got a fabulously geeky girl as the main character - Brooke English. In a world of few strong literary female characters (I've been reading The…

Happy Birthday Facebook! Here's what I could have been doing with the time I've spent on Facebook in the past few years: - writing that novel. Actually, without Facebook, I'd have completed the trilogy and I'd be halfway through the screenplay. - actually learning how to take decent photographs, rather than having to squint and…

Stalkers of the world unite. Google has just launched Google Latitude, which will plot the location of your friends, family, and those that used to be either and have forgotten to reset their privacy levels. You can now track and be tracked using a GPS-enabled mobile phone. You can override the automatic location tracking by…

News just in! Stephen Fry has reached one million , one billion seven kajillion twitter followers. Such is the reach of this National Treasure that high street electronics retailers have been ransacked, as the public descended to find any device at all that will connect to the internet, and therefore track Stephen Fry. A recent…

How concerned are you about the world knowing your mobile phone number, your Skype ID and your home address? If you're the kind of person who has your Facebook profile on lockdown, look away now - this might bring you out in a rash. In contrast, if you're more of the open pursuasion, .tel might…

If you've got both a microphone, a voice, a love of ZeFrank and time on your hands, have we got a game for you. Ze Frank's latest ker-azy invention is a drawing tool you control with your voice. The picture is an example of what he's created, by using a low volume to curve counterclockwise,…

For those not lucky enough to be living right next to a coral reef (and quite frankly, if you do, what are you doing on the internet?) Google Earth's latest incarnation should give you a hint as to what you're missing, with the addition on Ocean view. This new feature will allow you to go…

It's just what you've been waiting for! A whopping 12 megapixels have been crammed into this upcoming phone from Samsung, which means you'll be able to turn those pictures of your mates in the pub into billboard sized monsters. Useful. It's set to appear at next month's Mobile World Congress, and all sources point to…

I like to think that if Elton John and I ever found ourselves in the same All Bar One, we'd strike up a conversation and get on like a house on fire. And then, just as he was leaving to get to McDonald's before it shuts, he'd throw me a box which featured a full…