Author: Duncan Geere
Lenovo IdeaPad U8: Mobile Internet Device
If you love the idea of easy-to-use mobile internet, but you don’t want to, or can’t invest in an iPhone or iPod touch, then you’re pretty much screwed. Sorry. But there might be some light on the horizon, thanks to Lenovo…
80GB PS3 release brought forward to this Friday
Excellent news if you were thinking about buying a PS3. Awful news if you’ve just bought one. According to a number of online retailers, Sony are bringing out their 80GB PS3 on Friday, rather than a week Friday as was previously thought…
UPDATE: Palm Treo Pro full specs
Further to my post the other day about the leaked Palm Pro, here’s the full specs of the device…
YouTube Hits: Close lightning strike
Here’s a fantastic short video of lightning striking a beach, tens of metres away from the cameraman. Lightning, as I’m sure you’re all aware, is caused by ice crystals rubbing together and transferring charged particles in storm clouds. What you might not be aware of is that thunder is the sound that lightning strike – the sound of the air along the lightning bolt’s path being instantaneously heated to 30,000°C. Warning: mildly NSFW language…
SPOILER ALERT: Twitter upsets American Olympics fans
Michael Phelps is officially the greatest Olympian ever, scoring eight gold medals in one Olympic Games – something which has never before been achieved. Unfortunately, a tonne of Americans were pissed off over the weekend due to “spoilers” released by CNN Breaking News, and its unofficial Twitter feed (cnnbrk)…
HoffSpace – Hasselhoff rolls his own social network
MySpace is over. It’s official. David Hasselhoff has declared that he’s abandoning the world’s second biggest social network in favour of HoffSpace – a social network of his very own…
Will Wright's Spore goes gold
Maxis and EA have announced the Spore has gone gold. Spore is best described as a simulator of a whole Universe, and is the latest PC and Mac game by Will Wright – creator of The Sims. Players create a species and then nurture it from the molecular level, through basic and advanced civilization, and eventually colonize the stars…
Dynamic Fishing: cruelty-free fishing practice
Not that many robotic fish come our way at Tech Digest, but this one’s pretty awesome. It’s a kit which simulates the experience of sitting for hours on end by a river getting cold and hungry, all in the comfort of your own home…
Snooze your email with HitMeLater
HitMeLater is an interesting web service that helps you to sort out your email. If you don’t have, or don’t use, flagging or starring functions in your email client, then you might find this service useful…
Dual display laptop – ugly but innovative
What do you get if you cross a Nintendo DS and a cheap, tacky looking keyboard? The “Ergonomic Dual Screen Split Keyboard Notebook Computer”. Wow – what a name…