Google Goggles app lets Android phones search with an image
Google have announced a new app for Android phones which lets you search with a picture instead of a word. Take a photo with your Android phone and the search engine scans it and then finds similar images for you, which it displays in standard image search way. For example: snap a shot of Big…
Google search goes Real-Time
Google has just taken its search engine real-time. Searches will now turn up the most recent news to within seconds of the search. The real-time stream of data will be shown within Google's normal results page, and will be taken from over a billion sites including Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. "Information is being created at…
Tattoo your phone: O2 offer free tattoos to new and upgrading customers
Amy Winehouse has them. So does Angelina Jolie... so could your phone. We're talking about tattoos. O2 are offering free phone tattoos for new and upgrading customers in their London and Manchester stores over the next few months and there's a wide selection on offer. Visit site here to see the full amount. Pick your…
Video Review: the Motorola Dext (Cliq)
Anna takes on the Dext (or Cliq as it is known in the US) Motorola's first Google Android powered smartphone. It has a great keypad, an innovative interface called Motoblur and lots of cool features, but it has one big flaw Available on different contracts from Omio
Video Review: Nokia X6 Comes With Music
On paper this is Nokia's best handset in a while. It has a touchscreen interface, a great camera, shedloads of storage and Nokia's Spotify-a-like Comes with music facility. So is it an iPhone rival? Has Nokia produced a game-changing mobile? Andrea gives it a spin: Nokia X6 Sim-Free at £449 from Nokia.com
Italian Vogue do fashion shoot in the style of Twitpic
I don't really understand fashion shoots. To my limited mind a picture of a woman in a jacket is a picture of a woman in a jacket and all references to 80s TV shows or Chanel's '02 collection, or the transience of love is completely lost on me. One fashion-shoot reference that I did get…
Furniture designed like ice-cream and xylophones: surprisingly cute
The idea of sitting-room furniture designed like an ice-cream sounds a bit out there - would that be a round lump? Or a cone? But Jellio (strapline: fun by design) have designed a bench based on a ice-cream slider and the result is sweet and retro. Made from solid foam, it's 48 inches long and…
Social Shopping: how we'll be shopping online in 2010
E-retailers hope to bring some emotional spark to the experience of shopping on line according to a trend-piece on ReadWriteWeb. The next big thing in web retail? Social Shopping. Hoping to replicate online the experience of trawling around TopShop with your two best friends, Social Shopping brings the power of emotion to online stores. Recommendations…
HTC's 2010 phones leaked: we pick our top three
HTC's plans for 2010 have been splashed across Engadget, and there are some gems in next year's line-up. The creators of the Hero have a new generation of Android handsets on the way and are also running a line in productivity-focussed Windows phones. HTC's offerings are split up into four areas - design; social/lifestyle; performance;…
World's Smallest Snowman
I like it when scientists use top-flight technology to do cute little things. So was pretty pleased to see this cute ickle snowman created by the National Physical Laboratory - which at a slender 0.01mm wide is probably the smallest snowman in existence. It's approximately a fifth the width of a human hair. Disappointingly, it's…
