The Kissing Test app, practise with your iPhone before Valentines
Suave, dark and handsome, who can resist a kiss with... er, your iPhone? Well there's a app to make that seem slightly less weird: The Kissing Test. Fire up the app, select your gender and it supposedly analyses your kiss to tell you whether you're a pro, novice or just plain bad. I'm not sure…
The Apple Lamp – made from a recycled iMac
One for the fan-ladies and fan-gents out there: an Apple desk lamp. Not made by Apple, no, they don't do that, but this piece of desk furniture is paying homage to Apple with every gram of its sturdy frame. Incredibly made out of a recycled iMac, the iMac G4 lamp possibly references steampunk in its…
Why you should be a builder: women in construction
Okay it's not an obvious career for the lay-deez, but the government is trying to encourage more young women into the construction industry. Currently there's a skills shortage in Britain for skilled manual labour - from plumbers to woodworkers and only 10% of construction jobs go to women. Putting two and two together, and considering…
Nooka watches get AR treatment: try them on virtually
Just when you notice one company has started using augmented reality to let you "try on" fashion accessories remotely, you suddenly see a whole heap more too. Nooka watches have created a fun little video site where they let you try out their watches. It's a little more complicated than our previous example though, because…
Sure, Buzz is good but Facebook still has the Zuckerberg factor
Interesting post from internet wiseman Robert Scoble aka Scobelizer analysing the Buzz v Facebook debate, in which Scoble claims though Google Buzz has lots of great stuff - it will always lack the Zuckerberg factor. He looks at the characters of the rival CEOs and thus their companies and how that is carried through in…
Nokia Booklet 3G: the mobile phone-makers do a netbook
Nokia the mobile phone makers have just broken into the netbook market by launching a 3G netbook, a mini computer complete with built-in mobile internet access, available in the UK from today. Focussing on portability, the Nokia Booklet 3G is small with a 10.1" screen, tough with durable aluminium casing and has a 12 hour…
LED lamposts: bringing (too much) light to a street near you
LED streetlights are a eco-techie's dream - they use less energy, need to be replaced less often and produce more light than old ones. Thing is that the "produce more light" bit is proving to be a bit of a problem for people on streets blessed with these devices. Admiral Anika on FriendFeed lives in…
Privacy Problems with Google Buzz
The emergence of Google Buzz has thrown up a few privacy problems. Okay so your public profile throws up your name it also mentions who Okay so what you might say.. it's not very surprising if I email my boss and talk to my friend Ned. But, BusinessInsider points out three cases where it would…
What piece of Swedish furniture are you? Name Generator knows..
Do you have three minutes that you'd like to spend idling on the internet doing something a bit pointless? Ever wondered what piece of furniture you'd be if you were a piece of furniture? Finally someone has put the urge to time-waste together with the urge to imagine oneself as a piece of Swedish furniture…
Facebook open up Facebook chat – a fightback against Buzz?
Facebook have just opened their popular chat service up to external developers. This means that from today you will be able to instant message your Facebook friends from outside Facebook, using a client service instead of the main site. It will be like what Tweetdeck does with Twitter or like the old MSN. Facebook says:…
