More than thirty years after its release, Das Boot remains one of the most gripping war movies ever made. We're on the edge of our seat just thinking about it. But is it really the best candidate to launch a new line of watches? That's exactly what's happened at Baselworld, with press releases excitably describing them as "Diver's watches for real men!"
Hopefully someone at the Sunday Times is just having a laugh, either that or it's made a right cock-up. In a story charting an ill-fated hostage rescue attempt in Nigeria, the newspaper used a picture of John “Soap” MacTavish, straight out of Call of Duty, instead of a photo of flesh-and-blood soldier, complete with an eye-obscuring black bar for, err, privacy reasons.
Water and smartphones aren’t normally a marriage made in heaven; apart from the new Asian waterproof phone invasion we’re waiting for of course. But a single water droplet can turn your crummy phone camera into an instant microscope for absolutely free.
No one can argue Apple doesn’t make cracking-looking products; whether you love it or loathe it, Apple devices have become iconic. According to Apple’s British-born Senior VP of industrial design, Sir Jonathan Ive, it’s because of a “fanatical attention to detail” and “a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better” not just new.
It’s easy to forget that people died forging mankind’s path into orbit, space, the Moon, and beyond. This recently rediscovered original Super 8 video, shot from less than 10 miles away from NASA’s doomed Challenger launch site in 1986, brings it home in haunting detail.
Following on from YouPorn’s embarrassment back in February, a fresh hack on another internet sex site, Digital Playground, has seen over 40,000 credit card details stolen along with the logins, emails and passwords of some 73,000 porn-lovers, leaving them all with their pants down and wallets empty.
Sony’s got a new phone on the way and it's closer than you’d think. A press render has slipped out of an upcoming new Xperia phone codenamed the MT27i Pepper. It’s apparently aimed at a mid-range market and doesn’t look half-bad to boot.
You know, gaming doesn’t have to be about brightly-coloured cartoon characters tumbling around your screen to the accompaniment of some intensely annoying musical tunes. Nor should it just be about running around committing pretend murders.
