LG take the dramatic chipmunk on holiday and offer round-the-world prize
You remember the Dramatic Chipmunk? The little rodent whose dramatic head-turn and wild-eyed stare paired up with a dramatic chord to make possibly the best 5 seconds of animal video ever? Of course you do. Here he is: Anyway, LG, the makers of phones like the Cookie and the Chocolate have released a viral video…
CES 2010 launch: L5 app makes iPhone into universal remote, but do we want it?
From February, iPhone users will be able to turn their handset into a universal remote for the electrical goods in their house. Universal remotes such as Logitech's Harmony already exist, and L5 is taking it one step further by ditching the handset altogether, using the hardware on the iPhone and simply providing an accessory and…
Skype moves on to the TV, and goes High Definition
Skype will bring video calls onto the television screen: soon customers will able to download Skype to TV sets that have internet access. And, thanks to a partnership with LG and Panasonic, new TVs from those manufacturers will come with preloaded Skype software and the capacity to run High Definition video. "We're bringing Skype into…
Is technology making us sad :( ?
A technology psychologist ponders whether twitter, smartphones and push email alerts are making us sad in The New Scientist this week. Yair Amichai-Hamburger author of Technology and Psychological Well-being says that people today experience more depression than previous generations and he thinks that technology might be responsible. Though the wonders of smartphones, Wikipedia and Google…
The Pet Evacuation Jacket: is your cat ready for the apocalypse?
Imagine a disaster scenario: burning lava, an earthquake or maybe just the fusebox has blown and you need a light - where's your flashlight? Your pocketknife? Your energy pills? Why, of course, they're in pockets on the cat's emergency jacket. Yes your cat can have an emergency jacket. The pet emergency jacket is a real…
Lenovo releases new Thinkpad: the design-consicious Edge
Lenovo has released a new Thinkpad laptop aimed at home users. It's called the Edge and it comes in heat-wave red, the first time a Lenovo comes with a choice of colour. Design is a key feature of the Edge which Lenovo describe as "progressive and strikingly clean". The keyboard has got a contemporary update,…
Chrome overtakes Safari, now third most popular browser
News comes from marketshare that Chrome overtook Safari last month to become the third most popular internet browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. With ads for Chrome splashed over buses, newspapers and billboards Google has put its monetary might behind advertising its browser and it's not surprising that people are taking it up in increasing…
Nine things not to tweet about, and one thing that is fine
Webcomic Oatmeal provides a helpful checklist of things to avoid on Twitter. "Ten things you need to stop tweeting about" suggests that you refrain from tweeting about the usual suspects: your food, your kids, your emotional breakthroughs. I largely agree, but with the exception of their seventh no-no: speaking out of context. Look at the…
What to do if you're not at CES #1: check out Steampunk gadgets in Oxford
Okay, so the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas may be the tech world's most important exhibition right now, but if you're stuck in the UK and want to look at some gadgets, try visiting Steampunk, a slightly smaller and much weirder exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. You're not going…
Say 'I <3 you' with a heart-shaped landline phone
You may still be recovering from the celebrations of Christmas and New Year, but this is no time to pause and think you can get out of considering celebration-themed gadgets. No! Valentine's day is only 41 days away! Get your hands on this heart-shaped phone quickly. Giving this to that special man/woman/picture of Zac Efron…
