100,000 Blog Comments Needed for RNLI Fundraiser
An odd RNLI fundraiser has launched today, asking not for old books, loose change and knitted items, but trying to gather over 100,000 comments on a blog post over the next 24 hours.
An odd RNLI fundraiser has launched today, asking not for old books, loose change and knitted items, but trying to gather over 100,000 comments on a blog post over the next 24 hours.
Apple's been forced to pay up in an out-of-court settlement with Elan Microelectronics to the tune of £3.2m. The patent battle centred around Apple’s infringement of touch-based patents. Ironic considering Cupertino’s been trying to leverage its own multi-touch patents against others for a while now.
I know we should do everything we can to encourage healthy eating, but spending money on a unitasking kitchen tool designed to prep a banana is just completely unnecessary. Mother Nature's most perfect food doesn't need our help.
If you don't have a tape measure, buy one. But even if you do have a tape measure, there are things you just can't measure because they're either too large, or downright inaccessible. Instead of hauling out the ladder, let today's iPhone app, Measured, figure out the height and width for you by taking a photo.
A rumour flying out of Taiwan places Google’s own-brand Nexus tablet as a Kindle Fire competitor, not an iPad challenger. Google’s apparently aiming to launch a 7-inch Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that’ll be priced under £150, following up on Schmidt's previous slip.
A new version of the Sky Sports News app built exclusively for iPad has been launched today, including live and on-demand video support so you can watch the Sky Sports News channel from within the app. It is for very big fans of Sky Sports.
Stephen Hawking is perhaps the finest mind alive on the planet. Still, it's nice to hear he occasionally shares the worries of the rest of us. In a recent interview with New Scientist, he was asked what he thought about most during the day. His answer? "Women. They are a complete mystery." [New Scientist; Image: lwpkommunikacio]
Ford's electric Focus was first announced this time last year — and now it's slowly going in to production. But Google has its hands on some of the first vehicles to roll off the line. Just what are they doing with them?
That all-new iPhone Starbucks app we said was coming to the UK? Now we've got it. It's up on the UK iTunes shop, giving those who worship the two towers of capitalism the chance to manage and pay for their expensive beverages and sandwiches on their expensive telephones. What has gone wrong with the world? [iTunes via Starbucks]
Tuesday saw a curtain-covered object launch a competition on the Sony Ericsson Facebook page to win an undisclosed prize. We’re guessing it was the unannounced, but much rumoured, Xperia Arc HD. The latest teaser photos confuse the issue a tad.
The makers of a new iOS app have gathered together the locations of some of the known Banksy work in London, creating an interactive guide to where the artist/vandal has placed some of his pieces.
Is this a power pack? Nah. A pico projector? Nope. Is it a cube? It claims to be, but it looks more like a rectangular prism to me. Will it really redefine an entire category? Looks aside, we're not so sure about that, but Logitech sure thinks it will.. So what is this thing?
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world's smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimetre on each side.
Rumours about a fully-fledged Apple TV have circulated for years. But recently, things have hotted up: from hints in Walter Issacson's Steve Jobs biography, to talk about upcoming technology to a hotly anticipated media announcement later this month.
Lenovo's announced the first Windows laptop, the ThinkPad Edge S430, to pack Thunderbolt connectivity using the same mini DisplayPort connector as Apple's current line-up. Finally, we might see more than just Apple and Intel getting behind the lightning quick standard.
