Month: November 2009

Klipsch update their high-end iPod dock and speakers: iGroove SXT

Want a small iPod speaker from an established name? Well.. Klipsch the American audio retailers have updated their everyman's product, the iGroove to accommodate recent iPod and iPhone models. A pint-sized table top affair, the dock and speakers are discreet but produce high quality sound. "The iGroove SXT has always been our smallest, most affordable…

Cough into your iPhone… and new app gives you a diagnosis

It's not long since we looked at apps that can improve your mental health - Sleep Better and Conquer Insomnia - for example. Well it looks like they're inventing apps to improve your physical health too - or diagnose it anyway. Working on the same principles as popular music recognition app Shazaam, this new app…

Buy the Hadron Collider as a pop-out book

The Science experiment that people feared would end the world, is now available as a coffee-table book, and a damn fine one at that. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest and most complex scientific experiment but thanks to a British scientist working on the project and Anton Radevsky, a "paper engineer"…

Waterfall's Serio glass loudspeakers: fit on your wall or desk

Made of glass and alumninum, the Serio from Waterfall Audio is one of the more unusual looking hi-fi loudspeakers you're likely to find on sale this Christmas. With a heat-dissipating system called Heatstream patented to Waterfall it is capable of dealing with high levels of power from a compact unit. So it can fit on…

Google Sidewiki – web annotations let you comment on anything

An interesting new project from Google - sidewikis - allow you to comment on anything, anywhere. By downloading a Mozilla or IE extension you can click on the icon and whatever page you're on, a comment box or sidewiki will open up and let you leave a little remark. See the picture above...You can comment…

Emporia's Talk Premium: a simple phone for the 50+

The Talk Premium mobile phone is certainly a bit different. As a general rule, new phones tend to have more features than old phones. But the chunky retro-looking phone from Emporia does exactly the opposite - stripping the mobile phone down to its basic features. Where other handsets let you record music, play videos, listen…

O2 will let you unlock your iPhone

O2 will let iPhone users unlock their iPhones after their contracts with the company expire. After rumours that the network company would keep a stranglehold on the devices, this is welcome news. Now after the initial 18 or 24 month contracts expire, O2 iPhone users in the UK can get another O2 contract or pick…

Slow afternoon? make pixel art with Rubik's cubes

Got a lot of time, several hundred Rubik's cubes and a brain somewhere midway up the autistic spectrum? Make pixel art with them girls, what are you waiting for? If you're short on inspiration check out these phenomenal masterpieces by Irish artist John Quigley. (more…)

Girls and Gadgets: women read the instruction booklet

Yes they do - it's statistically proven. Consequently they are slightly better at using the aforementioned gadgets. This is such universally-accepted truth that the story was carried on the BBC. After reviewing 75000 calls taken in a month between September 25 and October 23, a UK gadget helpline released information about who called it, what…