Shoot the Lights Out With a Bang!
Ever wanted to shoot out the lights, but never had a gun to hand? The kooky chaps over at bitplay had the same feeling when they designed and produced Bang! -- the desk lamp you can actually shoot out.
Ever wanted to shoot out the lights, but never had a gun to hand? The kooky chaps over at bitplay had the same feeling when they designed and produced Bang! -- the desk lamp you can actually shoot out.
Quixotic patent commando Samsung continues its doomed crusade against Apple, pushing for more national bans against the sale of the iPhone 4S. This time? Japan and Australia, where Sammy's lawyers say Apple's stealing mobile tech. This is getting sad.
Remember how bummed everyone was about The New iPhone being a 4S and not a 5? Well they must not have been that upset, because Apple just sold an impossible four million in three days — double the iPhone 4's record.
You can just imagine that the British Library was feelin' all good 'n service-y when it decided to include Amazon hyperlinks to its list of 13 million books and texts on its website -- but instead, they're under fire for supporting online shopping instead of small indies and local libraries.
Want to watch a bit of X-Factor or Strictly Come Dancing on your iPad 2 without having to rape your data allowance? Elgato's new EyeTV Mobile DVB-T tuner for the iPad 2 promises to do just that.
Oil and gas might be running out, but renewable power sucks so much it counts for less than 10 per cent of all the energy we use. The answer? Recreate the sun using nuclear fusion, in a sleepy corner of the UK.
Hard drives are a bit like CPU's -- constantly increasing in capacity. Soon though we'll hit another brick wall for current magnetic technology. Thankfully a surprisingly common substance looks like it'll be able to triple capacity.
Police in the sweltering state of Dubai recorded cheerily low numbers of traffic accidents last week -- and are saying it's all down to the BlackBerry service crash.
Fat lot of good it'll do us here in the UK, of course -- though "sources" tell me it's rather easy circumnavigating the sign-up process using a VPN. Business Insider heard from an indie record label owner that Google's download store will be available this quarter, with the big name labels launching their wares first, followed by the indies thereafter. [BI]
A smaller, touchscreen-only and therefore hopefully cheaper BlackBerry Curve Touch is on the way, with RIM telling its app developers to prepare for a modest 3.2" touch-only BlackBerry.
Journalist Rowenna Davis has written an article for The Guardian illustrating the frustration she felt at the hands of an email hacker who locked her out of her Gmail account, requesting money from the friends s/he emailed, while posing as her. It's a riveting read, with the pages of comments also showing there are a lot of angry Gmail users out there.
More money for broadband can only be a good thing I guess, but considering £8 billion has to stretch across the length and breadth of the EU -- don't expect to get too much out of it in the UK.
Things are looking bleak for Philips, which is, or perhaps was, Europe's largest consumer electronics maker. Citing rising costs, internal restructuring pain and an 85 per cent profit collapse in Q3, it's just announced plans to cut 4,500 staff. [Guardian]
David Cameron's weird boast about possibly shutting down social networks during times of national stress simply won't happen, says Facebook.
BlackBerry maker RIM has announced it's giving away a stack of apps and games to its users over the next few months, as a combined apology and peace-offering to those who suffered during last week's "BlackBerry Jam" network failures.
Free music track with your Espresso Macchiato sir? Why I don't mind if I do -- finally, Starbucks has brought the UK into parity with the US with its free iTunes 'Pick of the Week'.
