The auroral lights dancing across the night sky is a beautiful sight. Viewed from the ISS they look even better, but when you combine that with a couple of Russian spaceships, it truly is out-of-this-world. [NASA via MSNBC]
Whenever I see a cockroach scampering around I don't even think, I just stomp the shit out of it. HOWEVAH. If I saw this freaking robot cockroach climbing my walls, I'd shriek and freak out like a little baby. This thing is seriously scary.
“GET BACK”, I scream at the top of my lungs, as I’m slowly shuffling backwards, away from the man facing me on the 7th floor landing in the council estate. Behind me is the stairway I just came up. To the right of me is a low black railing and a 70-foot drop. In front of me is a Customer. He seems dazed, confused, and absolutely furious. Something has happened to him, and he sobs, shouts, mumbles, drools, spits, and shouts some more. The words “Elise” and “I’m going to fucking kill him” keep being repeated.
Firemint, the developer behind Real Racing 2 on the iPhone/iPad, has a demo video to show off a neat multi-player trick using the Apple TV and the AirPlay mirroring feature for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2: 4-player split-screen.
Looks like we won't be seeing the Galaxy Nexus (formerly/maybe-still the Nexus Prime) as soon as we'd hoped. Samsung had been expected to launch its new Google phone at CTIA next week, but they've sent out a semi-last-minute notice that that'll have to wait.
iPhone 4S pre-orders and prices are trickling in for most of the UK networks so it's that time again -- trawl through the networks, compare the costs, do the calculations and finally, hopefully, discover that yes your pay-cheque will cover it.
Well, here we are then. After a series of slightly wide-of-the-mark leaks, we now have undeniable visual proof of the existence of the next official Google Android phone -- which would appear to now be known as the Galaxy Nexus.
Google has finally brought a collection of Hollywood blockbusters to the UK, thanks to a full launch of a new collection of paid film rentals over on its UK Movies site.
Architect Matteo Pericoli has spent quite some time sketching London. Now two of his huge, 37-foot-long drawings have been stitched together in iPad app London Unfurled.
If the novelty of watching three old, tired men being cynical about the performance claims of electric cars hasn't yet worn thin, here's a new toy for you -- TomTom GO LIVE Top Gear edition. It has Jeremy Clarkson's voice.
Usually reliable mobile retail news informant Clove has announced it'll be receiving its stock of the huge new HTC Sensation XL on October 24th. You therefore have 17 days to prepare pocket space for HTC's biggest phone yet. [Clove]
We're not going to be living the superfast 4G dream as soon as our American cousins, but at least we're making a little bit of progress in the UK.
UK paper The Times has added another prong to its multimedia attack, with a version of its mobile app now available specifically for owners of Honeycomb Android tablets.
The 50:50 joint venture, Sony Ericsson, may cease to exist if current rumours turn out to be true. Sony is apparently in talks for a £800 million buy-out of Ericsson's half to bring back Sony-only phones. [Reuters]
iPhone 4S pre-orders are live on Apple's online store while 'register your interest' pages are up on various network sites.
