Month: March 2011
Mother's Day Gadgets Guide: As tested by Mum!
Mother's Day is just around the corner in the UK (Sunday the 3rd of April to be exact) and, if you're anything like me, it's going to be a last minute dash to the shops to pick up something…
Five gadgets under threat of extinction
This great photograph has just landed in the Shiny mailbox – a tricky photo to take, requiring a top-end camera, surely? Apparently not. This picture was taken using a mobile phone, specifically the Nokia N8. The photographer is Jason…
The Royal Wedding app – it had to be from the Mirror
It's here – the Royal Wedding app. For £1.19 you get 10 chapters of royal love history, with lots of photos, videos and audio narratives from the paper's royal correspondent James Whitaker. There app takes you all the way…
Samsung notebooks do not come with keylogging software after all (false alarm)
It must have been a rough day for the Samsung PR department when security researcher Mohamed Hassan brought forward allegations of keylogging software coming as standard with certain notebooks. Hassan claimed to have found the StarLogger keylogger software in…
BlackBerry PlayBook shipping without native email, messaging and contacts apps
A leaked RIM document has revealed that the company's forthcoming iPad rival, the BlackBerry PlayBook will ship without native app support for email, contacts and messaging. Instead, users will have to pair the tablet with a BlackBerry smartphone via Bluetooth…
Mad science Coffee Joulies cool your drink right down (and keeps it warm)
Dependant on the black stuff to get going in the morning? Me too. Here's a little something if you are finding it too hard to wait for your coffee to cool down enough for it to be drinkable (or…
Samsung: Glasses-free 3DTV "within the next ten years will be difficult"
Though recently showing off a 55-inch glasses-free 3DTV at the FDP trade show in China, Samsung have got some bad news for consumers holding out for an autosteroscopic 3DTV in their living rooms. They're now claiming that a commercially suitable…
PSX4Droid PlayStation emulator pulled from Android market ahead of Xperia Play launch
Google have pulled a popular PlayStation emulator from the Android Market, just ahead of the Sony Ericsson Xperia launch tomorrow, the first smartphone to come complete with gaming controls and coveted PlayStation certification. It looks as if Sony have…
Three launch new premium Huawei E367 3G internet dongle
Three have today revealed their network's latest high-end 3G internet dongle, the Huawei E367. With a rotating head for better signal coverage and PC access compared to previous models, the USB dongle can stand vertically, with the connector tucking away…
HTC Pyramid specs appear in spy shots
The HTC Pyramid, the Taiwanese smartphone maestros rumoured new flagship handset, has popped up in a series of new leaked spy shots at XDA-Developers.com. Take a look at the new device by clicking below. Not merely some shots of the…