The Secret Spy Toys of The KGB
Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we've all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here's the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults.
Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we've all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here's the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults.
Details are thin on the ground on this one. All we really have is this rather over-produced teaser video, but it certainly looks like HP's readying a new ultrabook. Either that or it's pulled a fast one on us, and all this shuttering of webOS has been a front to cover the development of an incredibly cool-looking tablet.
We've known for a while that the iPhone's Siri isn't actually all that unique -- more a clever combination of existing technology with a bit of Apple-polish. But now a free app for Windows Phone, Ask Ziggy, goes ahead and proves that outright.
So the Gregorian calendar is kind of a pain, right? Thirty days has September, April, June… and all that? Who can even remember that? Most of it doesn't even rhyme.
The cool space fighter above was created with bricks from Lego Friends' Butterfly Beauty Shop; Olivia's Invention Workshop; Stephanie's Cool Convertible, and Emma's Fashion Design Studio. It proves one thing: feminists criticising the new Lego Friends sets just don't get it.
According to a rather self-publicising survey conducted by E.ON, Brits waste around £60 a year of electricity per household by just leaving gadgets plugged after they've finished charging -- about £134m a year for the whole country. That's not even taking into account the damage constantly charging something does to the battery.
While the lower floors of the Shard will be chockablock with the usual fast food palaces and high street chains, to cast your eyes across London's glorious skyline from the 68th floor it'll cost you the same amount that a zones 1 - 2 weekly travelcard costs. Well, back in 2005 anyway.
You've probably been there; Late one night in the pub, after a few too many beers, you have a bloody fantastic idea. A revolutionary idea. An idea that's going to change the world. The chances are that come the morning you’ll realise that your beer-addled brain had slightly overstated your own awesomeness, but sometimes (just sometimes!) the spark is there. The sparks of my idea began to fly about five years ago before, eventually, they caught light. Today, I'm waiting for a factory in China to start manufacturing something I invented -- the Triggertrap, an Arduino-based open-source universal camera trigger.
Remember when Microsoft gave the ChevronWP7 Windows Phone jailbreak tool its blessing? Apparently it came with a limited number of unlock "tokens" -- 10,000 to be exact -- which have now run dry.
45 tracks, supposedly from the "Artists of 2012" but also including a handful of oldies from recently released compilations, are currently available for free over on Amazon UK's MP3 Downloads shop. If you're still young and enthusiastic enough to bother investigating new music, there's another late Christmas present. [Amazon UK]
It’s 2012 now people, and it’s time for you to upscale your computing hardware. Say goodbye to whatever sub-standard rubbish you’re using now and usher in the Jet Pack Age.
The last time you opened your oven was probably pretty dull. You pulled the handle; you stuck something in; you waited for it to cook. Maybe you enjoyed it. But did it slide vertically out of your counter? Probably not.
TalkTalk is about to become a proper mobile phone retailer, with a range of phones and the usual subsidised contracts set to appear alongside its discount SIMs later this year.
Barking and Dagenham has rather belatedly embraced the humble text message, launching a new SMS information service for its housing tenants.
Pepsi is being sued by an American man who claims he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Ho-hum, right? But wait, Pepsi came up with the greatest defense ever: you'll never know you're drinking mouse!
Samsung's not exactly short of affordable mid-range options on the Android scene, but one of last year's big successes was its Galaxy Ace -- so now there's another one. A slightly better one.
