Take this with a massive pinch of anonymous-source-shaped salt, but according to Cult of Mac the much-rumoured Apple HDTV will look like a massive Cinema Display with a built-in beefed-up iSight camera for FaceTime from the sofa, and Siri so you can shout at it when you want to make a call. Read More >
Yesterday's bank holiday apparently sent the tills in WH Smith a little loopy, where they rebelled against their masters and insisted everyone bought The Queen's Knickers and nothing else, despite what you thought you had in the bag. Read More >
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"It was when I clicked your URL and saw the red malware warning site (with the option to "proceed anyway"). Sorry, I should've screengrabbed it for you..." More »
ASDA, home of the discounted doughnut and misshapen denim, is looking to the future of in-store information, after successfully replacing the mundane in-store tannoy announcement with new, holographic members of staff. Read More >
Featured comment by apmartin1991:
"I actually live in Milton Keynes and when I visited asda about a month ago. the holographic woman was there and it was fantastic! I was so surprised h..." More »
Sometimes it feels like spilling coffee from your mug is inevitable. In fact, it turns out that hunch might be correct: scientists have shown that humans are biologically built to spill. Read More >
Any random person on the street could easily spot Shelter Serra's silicone Rolex watches as being obvious knock-offs. But that's exactly their point. They're cool because they're so obviously fake—not only lacking the famous sweeping second hand, but any branded markings whatsoever. Read More >
Featured comment by Glenbot3000:
"If only they made more, then you could buy 43,200 and etch the time into them with a one second difference. Then all you'd need to do is travel back i..." More »
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"I think you'll find, my good sir, that the beams in question are attached to their fins, not their heads. Just one of the many facets of disappointmen..." More »
iPhones. iPads. Android. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favourites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! Read More >
We’ve waited long enough, but now Spotify’s iPad app, which we caught a glimpse of last month, is finally available in the App Store and it’s a looker. Brimming with Twitter app-esque sliding panes just like its Android cousin, this might just be the best way to use Spotify yet. Read More >
After a long day at school, the house phone rang and my mother answered. It's Apple and they want to have a word with you, she said. At the time, I was 16 and I had been hustling iPod parts to all parts of the world. Read More >
Featured comment by tsjmcgrath:
"I'd love to do something like this. But... no. My school, because they are idiotic with their rules, bans all forms of trade or business among pupils ..." More »
"Supermoon" is the overly dramatic modern way of telling mainstream sky watchers that the moon is at perigree this Saturday, meaning it's nearer and therefore larger in the sky than usual. Read More >
Featured comment by AtomicFire:
"Indeed. I think something orbiting the moon has a perilune and apolune - not entirely sure on the terminology there though.
If you like Kerbal SP,..." More »
I was amazed when I saw the 65-foot-high Lego cathedrals, one of the largest warehouses in Europe that holds 19 billion Lego pieces a year. But this Christian Stoll's photo of one of DB Schenker's warehouses in Germany has left me speechless. Read More >
Featured comment by edz314:
"It's a beautiful photo, but like most of the stuff on his website it's pretty heavily photoshopped. I know it's for effect but I think the reality of ..." More »
The long-running saga of the war on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has taken a sad new legal turn, with the UK's High Court ruling, as previously expected, that our ISPs are now obliged to restrict access to the huge torrent specialist. Read More >
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"Ahhhhh that makes total sense, cheers for the explanation. It did give me an option to alter the DNS at the PC or router level.
I find all this kin..." More »
Featured comment by pretpat:
"Disabled my ad-blocker and visited some of my frequently visited websites.
I don't think they would be visited very frequently like this. Re-enabled." More »
The Ministry of Defence is planning to place surface-to-air missiles on the top of a building in East London, just in case some crazed terrorist lunatic tries to crash a plane into the opening ceremony or, god forbid, disrupt the women's high jump. Read More >
Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has announced plans to build a ship he'll be christening Titanic II, which will be constructed to the same size and layout as the 100-year-old doomed original. And guess what? In the most amazing case of tempting fate the world has ever seen, he says it definitely won't sink. Read More >
Featured comment by midnightz:
"I've always thought that if I was a billionaire I'd build a modernised replica of the Titanic. Looks like this guy has saved me the need to make a few..." More »