Month: April 2011
Geek Easter: Make a Virtual Easter Egg Hunt with Layar
Want a calorie-free Easter? Swap the chocolate eggs on a Easter Egg hunt with points of interest on Layar - the Augmented reality app. I'm not sure the kids will fall for it - but you can try anyway.. Geeks with smartphones will go mental for it. Make the points of interest available only to…
Cadbury's creme eggs benedict
Think you've eaten creme eggs every which way already? Think again buster as you ain't see nothing yet. As a bank holiday Easter treat we found this recipe for creme eggs benedict. Don't worry though, there's no actual hollandaise sauce with this recipe just pure sugary sweetness. All Savoury ingredients are replaced with the likes…
The Game knows when you're scared: Emotional video games predicted
Games of the future will plug into your emotional and physiological reactions to enhance the gameplay. The game will be able to take inputs from your breathing, skin moistness and heart rate as well as what you thumb into the console, predicted psychologist Mike Ambinder. It could use the extra emotional intuition to heighten emotional…
Trolling- when lulz go bad
So it seems that amongst some of my friends I have been labelled a "troll". I like to go on message boards and challenge posts, what's wrong with that? I see something that's erroneous or, in my opinion, stupid and I point it out. Everyone enjoys the power that anonymity brings them and yes, once…
iPhone Autocorrect: 5 things it always gets wrong
iPhone autocorrect is a useful tool that helps everyone type faster. It's smart - recognising and accepting names from your address, but sometimes it still gets it wrong. Chronicled in great blog DamnYouAutoCorrect, here are five of the most annoying ones. 1. "Fuck" to "Duck" A classic autocorrect, I think Apple has phased this out…
Facebook in bed – bad for your sleep
Tech in the bed is affecting the nation's sleep. Apparently one in three of us admit that using smartphones in bed is negatively impacting our sleep. And looks like Facebook is one of the big culprits. I remember one of my housemates describing to me how he hated himself for checking Facebook before he went…
Twilight – NHS advertise dental care to young people with vampires
We like to report on vampires here, as well as consumer technology, and above all, we like to encourage people to go to the dentist. So naturally we are delighted to see that the NHS have adopted some kind of Twilight-parody to encourage young men to go to the dentist. Great - don't tell them…
You don't need to unfollow them – you can now mute heavy tweeters
Say there's a person in work you politely follow on Twitter, because - well - you have to. It gets annoying if they decide to live-blog their breakfast. You can't really unfollow them, but you don't want to read all about their jam either. Targeting exactly that problem, Twitter are testing out a new feature…
iPhone 5 slated for September: What's going to be in it?
After much to-and-fro, it looks like the iPhone 5 will be released in September instead of the traditional June date. The iPhone is still the smartphone that sets standards for all mobile phones and other manufacturers are chasing Apple on specs and design. So what can we expect from the new device? What is Apple…
The Big Brother Phone: How the iPhone tracks your movements & stores them on your computer
We're all aware that the iPhone has GPS and that is is capable of tracking our movements, but few -read no-one - was aware that it actually logs and stores a track of where you go on your computer. Turns out it does. All iPhones with iOS4 or later updates, store a little map of…
