Foldable Kitchen Scales: pack them up afterwards
By Genevieve Sibayan I don't want to play into the hands of gender stereotypes but an item that caught my eye recently was a kitchen gadget. Maybe I'm subconsciously craving cake and baked goods but the combination of kitchen paraphernalia and space economy really appeals. My current set of scales is a chunky analogue thing;…
iPhone on Orange: how does it stack up against O2?
The iPhone 3GS will be available on Orange in 9 days. On Tuesday November 10th Orange stores will be stocking the Orange iPhone, finally breaking O2's monopoly on the super-phone. Orange claims its new monthly and pay as you go plans are "great value" - but - inevitably they're not drastically different from O2's. (more…)
Facebook has a go at creating World Peace, but could do better..
Aside from improving the News Feed and juggling deals with search engines, Facebook is also trying to bring about World Peace. And they have gone about it by setting up a dot peace campaign with a group in Stanford University. Given that Facebook has more members than any country apart from China and India, it…
Mailtones – new iPhone app lets you customise PUSH notifications
A new iPhone app lets you set a mailtone for any contact on your phone. Anyone receiving emails with PUSH notification on their iPhone will be able to tell by the sound the phone makes who each email is from. Consequently you can either snatch up phone and start replying or else calmly ignore it…
Nokia 5800 'Comes With Music' gives unlimited music downloads
Nokia has worked up an impressive new deal for music lovers which bundles unlimited music downloads with a T-Mobile 24month Combi contract. For £30 a month you get unlimited downloads to mobile and PC from the Nokia music store. Plus the standard T-mobile 24-month contract services: 800 free minutes a month, unlimited texts, unlimited high-speed…
No more cold lunch with the…. USB Lunchbox Warmer II
Fed up eating lunch cold? Or having to trek all the way over to the microwave to warm up last night's risotto? Well stop that right now - all you need is your computer and the amazing... USB Lunchbox Warmer (from Brando, a mere $17). Simply plug the USB on the back of the Lunchbox…
Why the real iPhone-killer could be an app store – not a handset
I've just written a post on Getjar, the cross-platform open-source app store. It's the freewheeling bad little brother of Apple's app store and currently only has 650 million app downloads to Apple's 2 billion. But because Getjar is open source where Apple is both censored and sandboxed, it has much more potential for growth. Getjar…
5 reasons Getjar could become the biggest mobile app store in the world
Never heard of it before? No, I hadn't until last week.. but this open-source cross-platform app store has the potential to make it pretty big. Getjar has just popped into the mainstream and out of techie subculture in the past few months. It started life as a community for app-geeks in 2005, a place where…
Muzu.tv – the Spotify of Music Videos
A British start-up have launched a Spotify of music videos on similar principles to the successful music-streaming site. Muzu.tv have signed licenses with the big labels - including Universal and Polydor - and then let you watch official music videos for free online. They pay for it with advertising, banner ads and wraparounds on the…
Swarovski adds a little crystal magic to a Vodafone VF533
Suddenly it seems as if everybody is sticking expensive jewellery on phones. Sagem wireless - the custom phone creators - have partnered with Swarovski diamonds to make Crystallised phones. Their flagship product is a Vodafone VF533 to which they have added a trimming of crystals on the front face and a strip up the back.…
