Using iPhone apps to keep healthy and fight flu
Well everyone's caught onto how iPhones help your health: whether you want to diet, make a tourniquet for your leg, or err.. have a baby. Hell who even needs a doctor these days [joke]. Anyway if iPhones can be a source of first aid, menstruation calendars and relaxing bell music it stands to reason that…
Tangerine and chrome Serie 1 TV from LG is a retro beauty
Check out this pretty retro TV from Korean company LG, usually more known for taking things forward rather than back. Love the chrome feet on this TV set, the orange casing (that shade of tangerine is pure 60s) and the perky little aerial. A classy sitting room piece if you want to make a design…
Labour beats the Tories – on Twitter…
Labour are hammering the Conservatives on Twitter, if nowhere else... eConsultancy measured how many followers each of the main political parties have and Labour is streets ahead. Combining the official profile with number of followers belonging to MPs from each party, Labour has 113,201 followers, more than both the Conservatives (36,874) and Lib Dems (32,202).…
Personalised Romeo & Juliet: pwn Shakespeare for the weirdest Valentine's day gift ever?
One of the weirdest Valentines gifts that I have ever heard of comes from giftideas.co.uk and it's a personalised edition of Romeo & Juliet. This is personalisation beyond where personalisation has gone before. Instead of just putting an inscription in the frontispiece of a nice edition of this Shakespearean tragedy, and maybe letting you choose…
Stop sentimental vampires – the Twilight backlash
The backlash was inevitable. Twilight's smooth-cheeked smoochy boy-next-door vampires had held sway for too long and people want the real thing back. Real vampires who want to scare the hell out of you then bite you to death, not kiss you and then mope about it afterwards. Well, I'm good with either sort really. I…
Watch Cranford anytime: BBC shows will be available on demand on site See Saw
Some of the online walls around BBC content are about to be broken down though thanks to a deal between BBC Worldwide (the BBC's commercial arm) and a site called See Saw, which will provide video on demand from the BBC Worldwide. From the end of February, shows such as 'That Mitchell & Webb Look',…
"My iPhone got me pregnant" – sort of
You know the way they tell you where babies come from in 3rd form Biology classes? well something they never told me is how iPhones can get involved. No, though you can get iSperm applications, you can't quite download zygotes - yet. A great story from the Scottish Sun reports how an iPhone helped bring life…
Warhol prediction comes true in 15tofame video site
Launched at the beginning of 2010, site 15tofame aims to make that well-known Andy Warhol saying finally true - "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." You could say that TV programmes like Big Brother have already recreated the American pop-artist's vision, but 15tofame.com takes the prediction even more literally. The result…
Vodafone shifts 100,000 iPhones in one week: more proof this Apple gadget has gone mass-market
Vodafone has shifted 100,000 iPhones in the handset's first week on the network, more proof if we needed it that the phone is no longer a niche gadget but a must-have. Vodafone's promise of strong network coverage and good upgrade deals for existing customers seem to have wooed large numbers to the Apple phone. Vodafone…
"You Are Not A Gadget" a book with a beautiful cover, and a skewed message
"You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto" is a book by internet guru, musician and author Jaron Lanier published a few weeks ago. The American version of the cover is pretty beautiful (thumbnail to this article, but the English version is even more striking: it's a fake e-reader: (clever huh?) Gorgeous though it is, I…
