If you're a fan of taking your well focused, high-resolution iPhone images and adding fancy old-school lens types to them, you're in luck. Synthetic, the makers of Hipstamatic, have announced their D-Series collaborative-photo-roll app for iOS.
To gadget aficionados, photography is, at its heart, rather low-tech. With the exception of fancy menus and the ability to change ISO without changing the roll of film, the digital age has brought distressingly few innovations to the photography world.
Are you one of those annoying little wretches who enjoys sitting on public transport and listening to your favoured ‘music’ through the built-in speaker in your mobile, automatically enraging your fellow passengers? If so, you’re scum.
The updated version 2.6 of the Android Skype app has added in a couple of traditional desktop messaging features, with users able to share photos and pre-recorded video through chat windows. Plus it's been enhanced for Tegra-powered tablets.
Satnav specialist TomTom has signed another celebrity, with verbose TV presenter, comedian and self-appointed Twitter PR man Stephen Fry lending his voice to TomTom turn-by-turn directions.
LG is showing off its new Prada phone later today. So it goes without saying that official images have leaked beforehand, showing a phone with a seriously weird black & white Android reskin. Could you love this? It's a dual-core 1GHz model with a 4.3" screen, if that helps you decide. [PocketNow]
The sequences of this video would marvel anyone with a pair of eyes. Couple it with the lyrics of What a Wonderful World recited by Sir David Attenborough and you make our wonderful world even more wonderful. [Thanks Nick!]
Last.fm has teamed up with Microsoft's IE9 people for a nice bit of brand cross-promotion, which sees the pair releasing a custom Last.fm web player, built in HTML5, and enhanced for users of Internet Explorer 9.
Using special microchip-controlled explosives, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang created a daytime fireworks show using timed detonations on the ground and clusters of coloured smoke clouds exploding in the air — with results that easily rival nighttime fireworks displays.
Google's been hovering around Bletchley for some time, helping with previous fund raising efforts and donating various skills. But now it's just taken the Route 1 approach and handed the Bletchley Trust a massive lump of cash.
Abortion-finding aside, Siri isn't that bad. That's why Google is reportedly feverishly working on its own version of the voice-activated, natural-language assistant, code-named Majel. It's named after Gene Roddenberry's wife — the voice of many a Star Trek computer. While we can't currently confirm a release date, rumours put its street date prior to the new year. More speculation is available at Android and Me.
The Everything Everywhere conglomerate has already given Orange and T-Mobile users the chance to make calls via each others' networks, but soon it'll be flipping the switch on 3G mobile data roaming as well.
Video glasses are a pretty dorky vision of the future. I mean, put on a pair of blockers so you can watch video by yourself? A little bit anti-social, are we? Lumus wants to help a little bit by making glasses which let you watch video and see through the lens too.
Most of Tokyoflash's crazy watch designs are pretty hard to read -- at least for the casual observer. Its latest, the Kisai On Air, bucks that trend, but maintains the touchable innovative flair we've come to know and love.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this falsified Fortis watch is pure adulation. Bet you can't spot the fake.
The BBC's already let loose a 3G streaming-capable iPhone version of its iPlayer app for iOS, but as of now Android-lovers have been left out in the cold. A 3G streaming update for the Android iPlayer app is on the way however; but if you're desperate to watch Have I Got News For You while on the road, and can't wait for the update, it might be worth checking out the mobile web version of the catch-up player.
