When Chinese audiences tuned in to Big-Show the other night to celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon, they were treated to this 14-member all-robot dance troupe. Why yes, they are dancing to a remix of the Tetris theme. [Technabob]
The Hobbit being shot 48 fps? Pathetic. MIT's trillion fps camera? Pokey at best. Just wait until you see the video a team of German researchers have created. It's two frames long, lasts just 50 femtoseconds, and doesn't star Nic Cage.
There aren’t many games that have managed to both survive and thrive based purely on community created content, but Minecraft is a shining of example indie development and how to do it right.
Out in the real world, few people would proudly proclaim that they are racists. On the internet, things are different: The anonymity of the online world makes it easier for people to express racist viewpoints and make observations that they might feel too embarrassed to share in the offline world.
Hey, it's Friday; the sun is shining (in London, for 15 minutes, anyway), and Volkswagen has a new Star Wars-inspired ad which is actually worth a squizz. Oh, and dogs! Woof. [YouTube]
Letting you easily go from the gym (or bed) to work without changing, Betabrand's drab gray dress pants are actually made from comfortable terry cloth. So you can relive your student days when it was ok to leave the dorm wearing pyjamas.
These jeans look like any other pair of denim you'd see on a fashionable twentysomething. Dark, slim fit and cut perfectly -- heck, I wouldn't mind buying these myself. But unlike other jeans, this pair is made with scratch 'n sniff raspberry scented denim. Yes. Scratch and sniff. On your freaking jeans! This is awesome.
Phone-size.com is a useful little website that compares the size of phones against each other. Can your weeny hands handle a gargantuan Galaxy Nexus? Are your skinny jeans too tight for a Nokia Lumia 800? You'll find out!
"Elementary, my dear Watson", I said, jokingly. "Clearly, nobody killed the poor sod, so whatever he died of, it's probably nothing criminal. Best get him ready for the coroner though, eh?"
We all read reviews and check star ratings on Amazon before we buy stuff. We've already seen that companies sometimes write reviews themselves, and they're easy to spot by the way they're written. But there's a new trend among some less trustworthy Amazon sellers: bribing customers to write favourable reviews.
The idea of Apple moving to Magsafe charging for iOS devices has been aired before, but the lack of data transfer stymied such plans. Now, however, an Apple patent suggests that future Magsafe connectors will be able to shift data. Bye bye 30-pin connector?
Kim Dotcom likes things. He used to have a serious collection of cars, until it got taken away. One of the rooms in his house apparently houses more than six TVs. Now, we hear he just had a huge inflatable tank, just like the one in the picture, delivered to his house. Too bad he's still in jail and won't be able to appreciate it. [Ars Technica; Image: Ria Novosti]
Today’s deal is an enormous boon for gaming freaks who like to be on the move and generally a-wandering about the place. Say hello to the Playstation Vita. Soon.
Despite shipping 10.5 million mobile phones and 200,000 Xoom tablets in the fourth quarter of 2011, Motorola's mobile division still managed to slump to a rather large £44m loss in 2011. That's down from a £42m profit in 2010.
Mobile tech company Qualcomm, which makes the brains that power a huge proportion of the world's Android phone population, has said it's building up an in-house game development team.
The uptake of NFC tech is about to get a big boost, with Nintendo saying it's sticking NFC chips into the Wii U controller. And for your longer-range communication needs, Nintendo's latest attempt at doing the internet will also be incorporated into the new machine.
