Author: James O'Malley
James is the Editor of TechDigest. You can follow him on Twitter @Psythor.
iPin will turn your phone into a laser pointer
Ever wanted to use your phone to control a Powerpoint presentation? Or how about as a laser pointer to wind up your cat? Then you might need the iPin. Its a super tiny device, plugging into the headphone socket on iPhone - and will then beam a laser when you press a button in the…
Microsoft Lumia 535 arrives in the UK – here’s where to get it
Microsoft has announced that the Lumia 535 is now available in the UK. The mid-range phone runs Windows Phone 8.1, and sports a 5" 960x540 display, a 1.2ghz quadcore Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, 8GB of storage - as well as a 5MP rear and 5MP front-facing camera. Here's how Microsoft's press release describes some of…
WATCH: The Simpsons intro recreated in pixel art
Okay, we might think that The Simpsons is getting worse, but that doesn't mean we don't still love it. Check out the above video by animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon who have painstakingly recreated the show's introduction as though it were an 8-bit videogame. Brilliantly just the like real show it is also packed…
Third party support comes to Google Now
Google has added support for a number of non-Google services to its creepily prescient "Google Now" service, which serves up "cards" relevant to whatever the service thinks you need. For example, if you're about to get on a plane it will show you your boarding card from your inbox, and before a meeting will show…
BT Sport and Sky 4K battle pushes Sky’s new box release forward
BT's posturing over 4K football broadcasting is forcing Sky to speed up the release of its new set-top-box, according to reports. According to The Telegraph, Sky is desperate to maintain its position amongst early adopters, so even though 4K penetration is still really low, it is planning to launch its new box, which will be…
Dixons Carphone is to launch a mobile network
Dixons Carphone - the company that was formed by the merger of Dixons (Currys/PC World) and Carphone Warehouse has announced its intentions to start its own mobile phone network. The new network will be a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), leasing space from the Three network. Dixons claims that the new network will "bring innovative…
Meet the Raspberry Pi 2 – 6x faster, will support Windows 10
Element 14 and Raspberry Pi has this morning announced the Raspberry Pi 2 - the follow-up to the wildly successful, super-cheap, super-portable, super-hackable PC. The Pi 2 builds on the success of the first device - boosting the processor up to a Broadcom BCM2836 ARMv7 Quad Core Processor - running at 900mhz. That's six times…
WATCH: Crossrail has NEARLY finished digging
Check out this movie trailer type video created by Crossrail to promote the fact that after years of digging, the new tunnels under London are nearly finished - and judging by the dramatic music and lights, will be directed by Christopher Nolan. With the rest of the tunnel boring machines finished, the final TBM has…
PLAY: IKEA furniture frustration simulator
I know what you're thinking: "If only there was a game which captured the joy of wanting to murder your loved ones after an hour together trying to assemble furniture". Well today is your lucky day! Stork Burnt Down Games has come up with a game it calls Home Improvisation, which it created for the…
Is Microsoft making a back-up plan by investing in Cyanogen?
Perhaps the most intriguing news of the day is that Microsoft has bought a minority investment in Cyanogen Inc - the company that is behind the popular Android "fork" CyanogenMod. CyanogenMod doesn't come as standard on normal Android phones - instead it is an open source alternative to Google's version of Android that can be…
