Celebrity Twitter Directory, the Book :(
Yesterday we covered interesting books about Twitter. Today I've found what might be the opposite of an interesting book about Twitter. It's a review of Celebrity Twitter feeds in book form. If such a thing is to exist, it should be a Twitter list with relevant links. Something like this. Good Tweets may be worth…
Extreme beds: the dinosaur and the space ship
This is fun. The monster isn't under your bed... the monster is your bed. If you are a child who loves dinosaurs and doesn't get terrified by the thought of sleeping in the jaws of a tyrannosaurus rex, this would be the most amazing bed in the world. In a way, it's just a take…
The Robovie-II: at last, a robot that does the shopping
Why carry your shopping yourself when you can get a robot to do it? Okay, they still have trolleys rather than robots in the average British Tescos, but in Japan... they have bag-carrying robots. FTW Japan. The robotic shopping assistant from company ATR is designed to make shopping more convenient and entertaining for the elderly.…
Facebook now lets you update Twitter from your profile
Facebook's new age of Glasnost and Perestroika hit another milestone today when it announced that users will be able to post to Twitter from their Facebook profiles. The change should be in place by the end of the week. Over the past few months Facebook has been opening up to the web: encouraging users to…
Transformer Computer Mice from Brando, making mice into dinosaurs
I have a lot of love for this: Brando bring the magic of plastic dinosaurs to the humble computer mouse. Transformer mice work as normal mice but then magically unfold to become manipulable dinosaurs. Like Transformers machines right? Yes. Just like that. Get your colleagues transformer mice too then you can have office mouse fights.…
X-oom Media Grabber: software that finds, saves and converts net downloads
Want to find (legal) downloads more easily? You can buy software for that - X-OOM Media Grabber is a web download engine which aims to make finding free downloads much easier. Enter the name of your favourite band or artist and the program scours the net and downloads anything free, even the latest number one…
Five interesting books about Twitter
Good god, people like to write books about technology. Do you know there are 246 books on amazon.co.uk about Twitter? (based on results in a books search). There are 399 results on amazon for books about Facebook, 405 books about iPhones and a frankly stunning 848 book results for blackberry. I suspect some of those…
Dell Laptops get multitouch: Inspiron One 19 and the Studio 17
Dell has introduced multi-touch computer screens to its consumer ranges, bringing the touchscreen experience to Inspirons and Studios. Desktop computer the Inspiron One 19 and laptop the Studio 17 both feature the new technology and will run Windows 7 which natively operates with multi-touch. It means you'll be stroking and tapping your computer on its…
Satski: GPS hits the pistes, with app for skiing and snowboarding
You can get GPS systems for driving and cycling, so it stands to reason that someone would invent a GPS system for skiing, hiking and err.. golfing. (Well, not golfing so much, but the other two). Satsports do GPS applications and hardware for sports, and they have just released 3 new mobile apps for Windows…
Philco's retro PC references 1950s TV sets..
Computer-design tends to get sleeker and more minimalist as time passes - with laptops increasingly resembling ice cubes or pebbles. But one desktop is bucking the trend and drawing its influences from 1950s TV sets and antique technology, referencing a time when computers were machines and there was more steel involved than silicon. This retro…
