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A wide-angle lens for iPhone that makes pretty much zero difference
If you’re that into photography you know about wide angle lenses and are bothered about the width of the angles of your shots, chances are you’re carrying something around with you that’s a little bit better at taking photographs than an iPhone.
But let’s put that paradox to one side for a moment and talk gadgets. This gadget. A wide-angle lens that clips over the top of your iPhone and makes your angles wider by fiddling about with the light as it enters your iPhone’s camera.
The makers of it have very kindly put together a before and after shot illustrating the kind of difference it’ll make.
VIDEO: Traditional battery rejuvenation techniques
Hey everyone. This week’s video is about those improvised battery recharging techniques we all use from time to time. You know the ones I mean – blowing on them, rubbing them, swapping them over or jiggling them about to get a few extra minutes of use out of a dying pair.
But do any of them work? Let’s find out! And let’s also video it. And then let’s put the video here:
Games coming to Zune – and anyone can develop their own
There’s a big, high-brow and important gaming convention going on right now in San Francisco, called the Game Developers Conference.
Such joys as the inevitable Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 (coming this November) have been revealed so far, but elsewhere, Microsoft also announced plans to expand Zune into a portable games machine…
LG staying with HD DVD to the VERY END – sticking with Blu-ray and HD DVD combo drives
LG has said it’s going to carry on making HD DVD players, using such words as “convenience” and “consumer” to justify its decision to stick with the recently deceased format.
If we were to be cynical about it, though – and there’s little we enjoy more! – we’d say that’s because poor LG has a factory full of the things somewhere in Korea it’s desperately trying to shift before they become worth bugger all.
But that’s not what LG said. It would…
Universal is today's Blu-ray turncoat – HD DVD getting deader by the hour
Your HD DVD player just got that little bit lonelier today, as Universal announced its dumping of exclusive HD DVD support in favour of Blu-ray.
Following HD DVD maker Toshiba’s announcement of the death of HD DVD yesterday, Universal wasted no time in jumping fully on the Blu-ray wagon from the burning wreck of the HD DVD bus…
OPINION: HD DVD is dead – but does that mean Blu-ray automatically wins?
Gary Cutlack writes…
So it looks like HD DVD has died. That doesn’t bother me much as I can’t tell the difference between HD and normal telly from the comfort of my uncomfortable DFS sofa, so I’m yet to bother upgrading to any new movie formats.
But my “old” DVD collection is huge – although it only covers a relatively small period of time, back when DVD was the hot new thing.
It starts in late 1999 when I blew a ludicrous £500 on a Sony DVD player (that broke after 18 months…
Daily Downtime – free games and quizzes for your mobile
A new mobile service has come out of its beta testing period this week – Daily Downtime.
Daily Downtime’s unique in the mobile industry, in that it’s offering you mobile content for free. Yes, FREE! Simply sign up with your mobile number and a few details on its site and it’ll install itself on your phone. Whenever you want to kill a bit of time, simply fire up the app and download that day’s bundle of new content.
VIDEO: Can you recharge NON-RECHARGEABLE batteries?
Well, can you? Let’s find out!
I can’t keep the secret – YES YOU CAN! I took a pair of fully-drained alkaline batteries and put them in a standard Ni-MH battery charger – and it worked! It worked! They charged up and came back from the dead! Look!
OPINION: Apple returning to the Bad Days? Why an Apple games console would be a disaster
The latest HOT APPLE RUMOUR doing the rounds (ie, getting endlessly reposted on every blog under the sun), is that the fashionable computer giant might be planning to enter the gaming world to compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Patents would appear to show that show Apple is planning to up its gaming offering, perhaps even launching a separate standalone home games machine or handheld rather than just shovelling a few Tetris clones onto iPhone…
Man BRUTALISED by armed police who thought his MP3 player was a gun
Yes, they thought his MP3 player was a gun. They thought a 28-year-old mechanic’s MP3 player was a gun, when he took it out of his pocket to change tracks at a bus stop.
It was a “black Philips” music player, so he certainly deserved a warning to buy superior model in future – but getting held by armed cops and having his DNA and fingerprints taken is going a little too far…
