Here's the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the musician in your life: a t-shirt with a built-in drum machine. Whether they're a busker in need of a backing track, or an annoying nephew who's keen to lay down some hip-hop beats, this shirt's what you need to get them.
The BBC has just let loose an update for its iOS iPlayer app that brings it to the iPhone and enables streaming over 3G. It's not just catch-up content either -- the app allows you to watch a live stream of any of the BBC's TV channels or radio stations wherever you've got a solid data connection.
When Canon announced the outlandish 1DX, you could be sure Nikon wouldn't be too far behind. Now, specs of the new D4 are leaking, and it looks like it could be a close fight between the two.
Whether or not you love the carefully planned, wire-diagram-styled London Tube Map or not, you'll have to admit that when cast in Lego, it certainly is a marvel to behold.
We're living longer than ever, but neurological diseases such as Parkinson's Disease still take their toll on society. Around three-quarters of those with Parkinson's in the UK suffer from speech problems. Boffins from the University of Portsmouth want to use smartphone apps to help them be better understood.
First Great Western suffered a comedic PR crisis late last week, after using the well-known rail excuse of "adverse weather conditions" as the reason for a delay in the launch of a web site.
Watching this cube slowly turn itself inside out as its internal gears mesh together is a mesmerising and puzzling experience. It looks like it should never work, but it does. I have a degree in engineering. Hell, I have a PhD in engineering. I (kind of) know how it works. But it still looks like magic to me.
The ever-popular Google Doodle is today celebrating the life of Robert Noyce, the co-founder of Intel and a man with a good claim on having played a big part in inventing the microchip.
Progress! Those that are too ill or just plain unwilling to make it to the crematorium to send off their loved one, friend or arch nemesis, can now watch from the comfort of their own home, thanks to Stafford Borough council.
BT has announced plans to hook more Scottish home and businesses up to its next-gen fibre network, hopefully allowing another 277,000 homes to connect to faster fibre-based products.
Night vision is cool. It's also incredibly useful, too, which is why the US military is funding a project that will make it cheap enough to feature on your phone.
There's now a new way to give mobile phone networks your money, with O2 launching a 12 month leasing system with no upfront fees.
You see, the thing is, that in order to make the future happen, you need to have people in the present to work on it. So if you happen to invent machine-induced hibernation, just don't tell anyone. [XKCD]
Google's getting into the holiday spirit with its latest Androidify update, which rolls out some choice Christmas and New Year gear. Mittens, candy canes, skis, Santa hats, red noses, and of course the essential Christmas jumper, can now be equipped to your pocket pal.
Ofcom's released its draft annual plan for the 2012-2013 period and there's bad news for those eagerly awaiting 4G networks within the UK. The telecoms regulator has penned "wide availability" of 4G coverage within the year 2015, not 2013/2014 as we were all hoping.
This is Puppis A, the remnants of a violent supernova that exploded 3,700 years ago, glowing red as its shockwaves still heat up the dust around it. But Puppis A is really special because it hides the "Cosmic Cannonball."
