Link your scales up to your TV – WiFi Body Scales connect to the telly

We've already seen the weighing scales that connect up to your phone, but the company behind the best-connected scales in the world have just decided to link them up to something else - the TV. That means you get the shame - or err motivation - of seeing your weight flashed up on the telly…

We watch 11,000 years of online TV in a month: Is the human race doomed?

A few numbers for you to mull over if you can tear yourself away from watching Youtube and playing Angry Birds - It seems we all spend waaay too much time watching Youtube videos and playing Angry Birds. PREPARE FOR THE TRUTH 1) In one month (April) - Britons watched 11,000 years worth of online…

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 The document states that you can be withdrawn from Spotify Social if you are found to be writing rude things.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…

Why the Girls app in the Apprentice might actually have been better

If like me, you were surprised - no - outraged, that the boys' app bombed on The Apprentice last night, then you may have chalked up the failure of Slang-A-Tang to that guy on Wired getting upset by regional mockery, and tipping the PR balance in favour of the girls' offering - Ampi-App. Or as…

3D Augmented Reality comes to the LG Optimus 3d – ooo

LG have released the world's first 3D enabled phone - the LG Optimus 3D - and now it's getting three dimensional augmented reality. That means that the objects hovering in your field of vision will now fit more seamlessly into the three-dimensional world rather than sitting flatly on top of it. Pretty lush. It also…

Cadbury's creme eggs benedict

Think you've eaten creme eggs every which way already? Think again buster as you ain't see nothing yet. As a bank holiday Easter treat we found this recipe for creme eggs benedict. Don't worry though, there's no actual hollandaise sauce with this recipe just pure sugary sweetness. All Savoury ingredients are replaced with the likes…

Twilight – NHS advertise dental care to young people with vampires

We like to report on vampires here, as well as consumer technology, and above all, we like to encourage people to go to the dentist. So naturally we are delighted to see that the NHS have adopted some kind of Twilight-parody to encourage young men to go to the dentist. Great - don't tell them…

Why the Olympics will get us buying 3D TVs…

Looking forward to seeing the elbow of an Olympics boxing champion pop out of the screen at you? It seems a lot of us are. A survey by TV-makers LG found that the Olympics will be what it takes to get over a third of us buying into the 3D TV trend and shelling out…