Lucky Essex School Kids Get £500k's Worth of iPad 2s
India's been trying to revolutionise education with its £40 tablet, meanwhile we've been buying 1,200 iPad 2s for school kids.
India's been trying to revolutionise education with its £40 tablet, meanwhile we've been buying 1,200 iPad 2s for school kids.
The most prominent member of hacking gang LulzSec has spoken on a number of issues, claiming to be holding vast quantities of unpublished data. But life's not great on a personal level -- he's "past the point of no return".
Brave young David Knott took to the London streets to steal himself a new TV back during London's summer of discontent, despite being in a wheelchair with a broken leg. That's some impressive dedication to social unrest.
Graphene, wonder-stuff extraordinaire, has been looking to revolutionise all sorts of things from chips to lightning fast internet. Next up is night vision and solar power.
An updated and enhanced Apple TV could be about to launch, with Apple code mentioning a future 3.1 version of the media box -- updating it from its current 2.1 model reference number.
You could soon get yourself the ultimate in eco-friendly bicycles -- one built in Yorkshire from bamboo.
The time has very much passed for Chatroulette, but according to Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker (immortalised in The Social Network), a video-chatting service with social networking profiles is The Next Big Thing. Called Airtime, investors include Ashton Kutcher and Will.i.am.
While phone-based NFC payments aren't something we're likely to get too soon over here in Blighty, even RIM is getting in on the touchless bandwagon with its newly announced NFC-sharing platform, Tag.
T-Mobile customers have been having less frustrating moments of dropped signal since they were allowed to use Orange's network for voice and text last year. Parent company Everything Everywhere has said that from next week, that'll include data too.
In 1945, one of the greatest modern wars the world had ever seen was in its final stages.
Welcome to the world of "light painting." It begins in darkness, and then over the course of an hour or hours, a photographer illuminates small portions of his or her subject, and combines the images in post to create this.
Can you imagine the devastation caused by a morning swig of the "Bay in a can" energy drink? Urban Outfitters would have to amp production of denim shorty-shorts to dangerous levels at the very least. [YouTube -- Thanks, Nick!]
Yay! Free Wi-Fi courtesy of Starbucks and now you don't even need to be a member. The iconic coffee house has rolled out its one-click, free-to-everyone Wi-Fi bringing the UK in-line with our American cousins. [Starbucks via TechRadar]
Simple, healthy, delicious tea steeped with the help of a robot hanging onto the edge of your cup like a little artificial companion? No wonder it's sold out. [Uncrate via Uber Rreview]
Kick-starting Monday at 1am, Apple's biggest central London store, Covent Garden, has been robbed by a gang of 14 helmeted-men making off with a collection of Apple's latest kit. The Rozzers have arrested two so far. [BBC, Rob Shoesmith]
...and it's only a few hundred million miles away. Better fuel up your rocket and get started today, however, because we're talking about Saturn's moon Enceladus and the incredibly fine, snowy powder that covers its surface:
