Don't just sit around masturbating: vibrators get controversial in US university

Do sex toys make you want to stay in your room all day, forsaking the company of humans beings to spend quality time with your battery-powered silicon pleasure instrument? A certain Joe Vetter fears that that is exactly the effect that vibrators have on women and he is protesting against a university study into the…

EEWWW of the week: get your phone embedded in your arm

This is the sort of idea that is a joke until someone actually goes and makes a digital interface that embeds under your skin, allows you to browse the internet on a screen on your arm and gets its power supply from the glucose in your blood. Called a Digital Tattoo interface and made as…

Top ten Music apps of 2009

It has been a year of many apps.. and over on TechDigest they have been separating the wheat from the chaff and compiling a list of the top 50 iPhone apps of 2009. Chunking them up in batches of ten, today it's the best music apps in the iTunes store. See Paul's verdict here :…

Tell Twitter what you weigh with the Wifi Body Scales

Do you think your Twitter followers would appreciate knowing just how much you weigh on a frequent basis? Well now you can tell them with minimal effort. Simply stand on your Wifi-ennabled Body Scales from Withings and it AUTOMATICALLY UPDATES YOUR TWITTER . With your weight. We reported on this gadget a little while ago…

Yes, working from home does make you more productive

It's official Remote Office Day today, but no that doesn't mean celebrating the single office block in the Outer Hebrides, but rather people who work from home, the pyjama-wearing, chocolate-nomming laptop-bound masses. But apparently British bosses don't realise the potential of letting their staff work from home. Remote access and support experts LogMeIn commissioned independent…

Klipsch update their high-end iPod dock and speakers: iGroove SXT

Want a small iPod speaker from an established name? Well.. Klipsch the American audio retailers have updated their everyman's product, the iGroove to accommodate recent iPod and iPhone models. A pint-sized table top affair, the dock and speakers are discreet but produce high quality sound. "The iGroove SXT has always been our smallest, most affordable…

Cough into your iPhone… and new app gives you a diagnosis

It's not long since we looked at apps that can improve your mental health - Sleep Better and Conquer Insomnia - for example. Well it looks like they're inventing apps to improve your physical health too - or diagnose it anyway. Working on the same principles as popular music recognition app Shazaam, this new app…

Buy the Hadron Collider as a pop-out book

The Science experiment that people feared would end the world, is now available as a coffee-table book, and a damn fine one at that. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest and most complex scientific experiment but thanks to a British scientist working on the project and Anton Radevsky, a "paper engineer"…

Waterfall's Serio glass loudspeakers: fit on your wall or desk

Made of glass and alumninum, the Serio from Waterfall Audio is one of the more unusual looking hi-fi loudspeakers you're likely to find on sale this Christmas. With a heat-dissipating system called Heatstream patented to Waterfall it is capable of dealing with high levels of power from a compact unit. So it can fit on…