What the world needs now… is a naked lady speaker?

What an excellent addition to the audio industry. A naked woman, with no arms, or legs, powering an iPod through her hoo-hah, whilst piping the music through her breasts. I imagine Sennheiser are quaking in their boots as we speak, at the launch of something that is surely set to become as ubiquitous as the…

Government says ISPs don't have to cut off pirates

Back in July, there was much excitement when it was suggested that ISPs might start sending letters (ooh), throttling bandwidth (oooooh) and ultimately ceasing to provide illegal downloaders with an internet service (ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh). But today, the Intellectual Property Minister has quite rightly pointed out that it would be practically impossible to monitor or enforce. And…

The feminist reading of a perfectly harmless memory device

OK, tell me if this makes you angry, or if I'm being overly Monday morning, lack of coffee, wish it was still the weekend sensitive: these (quite attractive) Micro Attaches come in three sizes - 2GB, 4GB and 8GB. If you want the largest, you get a serious grey. The middle, a boyish blue. Don't…

Web 2.0 well wishes: Steve Get Well

This is one part weird, one part inevitable and one part bandwagon-y. Steve Get Well is a website created for you to leave your well wishes for the Apple CEO. It's not created by Apple, there's no guarantee he'll ever see the site, but hey! There are badges you can grab and put on your…

Carnival Colours: almost as good as a new generation PSP

It almost makes you want to quit your day-to-day life, move to Japan, only eat chicken gyozas and buy one of these special edition, only available in Japan, PSPs, isn't it? These are the "Carnival Colours" (although clearly that blue is not remotely carnival like) and they're each $220, unless you plump for the additional…

Cradle your gadgets as they go sleepy-bye-byes. Loser.

I have no idea why you'd want one of these. I whole heartedly subscribe to the 'whatever doesn't kill your gadget makes it stronger' theory of tech ownership, and feel no pangs using my laptop as a tray, my MP3 player for a coaster and my phone for a makeshift backscratching device (bring back aerials,…

Friday Video Fun: Japan Binocular Football

This is the video that has finally convinced me that the license fee is a complete waste of cash. If the BBC were putting grown men in stripy jumpsuits, duct-taping binoculars to their faces and making them play football, I'd be happy to cough up. As it is, we get How Do You Solve a…

New Trojan targets P2P Mac software

Macs: they never crash, they never get infected, they come with iSmug pre-installed, right? Apparently not. There's a malware programme on the loose at the moment, targeting Macs. It's a Trojan which comes with a pirated version of iWorks, which is currently doing the round on P2P networks. The pirated version doesn't need a serial…

Digital Jenga: another game that doesn't benefit from batteries

Were you under the impression there were some childhood games that would remain sacred? That the only updated version of Jenga you'd ever see would be a supersize one you could play in a pub garden? More fool you - you didn't account for Progress, did you? This is digital Jenga, and it represents all…

Shiny Preview: Sanyo's waterproof Xacti VPC-WH1

We told you all about the range of new Xacti videocameras Sanyo launched yesterday, and Dan managed to get his hands on the model that will record up to 3m underwater. It features a 30x zoom, and the option to expand the memory to 32GB, which you'll need, since it captures in 720p. Sanyo