Author: James O'Malley
Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker lets you play with your food
If you’re a member of the same demographic group as me then chances are you remember the jingle from the old TV advert for Mr Frosty, an ice-lolly maker aimed at kids. Despite bold claims about Mr Frosty being both fun, and having the ability to make treats for everyone, you probably never owned one as your parents were too stingy to buy it for you.
Well I’ve got some good news for you. Not only were your parents acting in your best interest after all (the reviews on Amazon all suggest Mr Frosty was actually rubbish), but in case you’ve forgotten, you’re now a young, urbane professional with a disposable income, putting this sort of tat well within reach – and all it has taken was a 15 year wait. The even better news is that technology has progressed even further since you were a kid: why bother making ice cubes when you can make ice cream with the Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker?
Voice Stick reads text to the blind – blind said to be looking forward to reading Buffy meets Star Trek fanfiction
From the “I can’t believe this has only just been invented” department comes the Voice Stick, a device that will “read” text aloud for the blind…
UPDATED: Nike+iPhone = a pretty way of visualising just how unfit you are
Some screenshots have been leaked of an updated version of the Nike+ iPod, the shoe/music player hybrid for athletics training and the like, redesigned for the iPhone.
Guitar Hero & Rock Band learn to make beautiful music together
In the 21st century, owning one plastic guitar to play videogames with is an acceptable thing for a person to do. Owning two though? That’s when the neighbours start whispering about you being a bit weird and having delusions of grandeur about being a Tom Morello.
There is some good news though if you do think that you’re Tom Morello: Microsoft has followed Sony’s lead and has announced that the instruments in the next generation of rhythm games – Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution – are all going to be cross compatible with each other…
Yang Ying digital camera has onboard storage, LCD viewfinder and inner-peace
According to Wikipedia, the yin and yang are “generalized descriptions of the antitheses or mutual correlations in human perceptions of phenomena in the natural world”- which is, in my opinion, the second best abstract concept to design a point-and-shoot digital camera around (the first being “despair”)…
Writing about JBL modular speakers is easy if you've got the right angle to take
You’d have thought that designing speakers was pretty straightforward – as long as it blurts out noises, you’ve pretty much done your job. I guess it is the boredom that comes coupled with this simple design brief that has led to this unusual design from JBL…
iPhone killswitch disabled by hack… Stephen Colbert breaths sigh of relief
Just days after Steve Jobs revealed to the world that the iPhone has a kill-switch, allowing Apple to remotely remove any dodgy apps from your iPhone, hackers have already found a way to disable it. This will no doubt please US comedian Stephen Colbert, who’s reaction to the kill-switch news you can see by viewing the full story…
OPINION: Internet scams are clever… or I am really stupid.
If you’re reading a tech blog then chances are that you think you’re pretty tech-savvy – you know your way around the internet, you can tell your lolcats from your RSS feeds, and you’ve probably become a bit complacent with your security-conscious mind.
“I don’t need anti-virus software, I’ll just be careful… I’d never fall for an internet phishing scam, I can spot a bogus deal from a mile off”, you’re smugly thinking right now, perhaps knowingly stroking your chin as you do so.
Unfortunately, this was my line of thinking until about two and a half hours ago when I discovered that I’ve unwittingly fell victim to an internet scam…
Apple and God form a new partnership, aim to target students and the meek
It’s alright for some – kids starting this year at the Abilene Christian University are getting a free gift. It would seem that whilst God may not answer prayers for world peace, if you choose to attend Abilene, he might give you a free iPhone…
Italian Pirate Bay traffic goes up, staff drink bottle of rum to celebrate
All publicity is good publicity, or so the saying goes – and it might just be right. Apparently since the Italian government banned BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay the other day, the site has seen a 5% increase in hits coming from Italy…
