Month: November 2009
Knitted superhero costumes: geek chic in cold weather
Doesn't Batman get chilly when it's mid-November, there's a cold breeze blowing and he's only got skin-tight lyrca between his bulging muscles and the outside world? Well, now thank god he doesn't have to. Finally someone has knitted practical acrylic versions of the most popular superhero outfits. This means that superheros and you, the average…
Digital bubble cloud for London's Olympic park?
Giant solar powered plastic bubbles could soon bob gently over the London skyline if an art project shortlisted for a space in the 2012 Olympics goes ahead. The Cloud, as its designers call it would float above the Olympic park in east London with the giant bubbles capable of displaying data and pictures attached to…
Casio's camera for golfers – Exilim Hi-Speed – improves your swing
Cameras usually have the primary function of taking pictures, but one, just released by Casio has the primary function of improving your golf swing. Rather than holding your arms and talking about posture to you in the manner of a more traditional coach, the Exilim Hi-Speed EX-FS10 videos your swing and then analyses it. Capturing…
"Email will be dead in ten years" ShinyShiny talks to Lady Geek
Last week, Shiny Shiny met up with Belinda Parmar, a power-tweeter and the force behind Lady Geek - an agency that clues up technology companies on what women want. Quoted across the media as a bit of an authority on this topic Belinda had a few things to say about women and tech: 51% of…
Video Review: Emporia's TalkPremium
The simplest phone on the market, the Emporia TalkPremium lets you call, text and set an alarm and that's it. With big buttons and large text it's loosely aimed at the older generation or anyone fed up with complex phones. £105 from Emporia.at See the full text review here
Don't just sit around masturbating: vibrators get controversial in US university
Do sex toys make you want to stay in your room all day, forsaking the company of humans beings to spend quality time with your battery-powered silicon pleasure instrument? A certain Joe Vetter fears that that is exactly the effect that vibrators have on women and he is protesting against a university study into the…
EEWWW of the week: get your phone embedded in your arm
This is the sort of idea that is a joke until someone actually goes and makes a digital interface that embeds under your skin, allows you to browse the internet on a screen on your arm and gets its power supply from the glucose in your blood. Called a Digital Tattoo interface and made as…
Top ten Music apps of 2009
It has been a year of many apps.. and over on TechDigest they have been separating the wheat from the chaff and compiling a list of the top 50 iPhone apps of 2009. Chunking them up in batches of ten, today it's the best music apps in the iTunes store. See Paul's verdict here :…
Tell Twitter what you weigh with the Wifi Body Scales
Do you think your Twitter followers would appreciate knowing just how much you weigh on a frequent basis? Well now you can tell them with minimal effort. Simply stand on your Wifi-ennabled Body Scales from Withings and it AUTOMATICALLY UPDATES YOUR TWITTER . With your weight. We reported on this gadget a little while ago…
Yes, working from home does make you more productive
It's official Remote Office Day today, but no that doesn't mean celebrating the single office block in the Outer Hebrides, but rather people who work from home, the pyjama-wearing, chocolate-nomming laptop-bound masses. But apparently British bosses don't realise the potential of letting their staff work from home. Remote access and support experts LogMeIn commissioned independent…
