Camera-makers FlipCam have made a brave foray into the world of apps, by releasing an iPhone app that will let you share your Flip content to your friends' smartphones. It's a brave move - in many ways, iPhones are rivals to Flips because they also pack medium quality digital cameras. But this could help Flip…

I don't know if this is the future of the music industry, or just the future of atmospheric music or just the future of walking around - but it's certainly a beautiful idea. New app BlueBrain plays you music according to your location. Using the GPS and music on your phone, it sends you sounds…

I was at an interesting dinner with Kodak last week and among general conversations about flashes and external mics and light sensitivity, the megapixel myth came up. This is not a new story - it's an old old tale - and it goes like this: the more megapixels your camera has, the better the pictures…

Paper book publishers Random House have teamed up with game-makers THQ - to start collaborating on products that bridge the gap between books and games.. Ebooks, graphic novels and online/console/phone games are expected to come out of the partnership, which will see books spinning out of successful game titles according to Gizmodo. Much of the…

This art project is a cute take on Augmented Reality. Amsterdam-based artist Ben Heine's pen and paper drawings give a surreal twist to the idea of layering an imaginary world on top of the real world. He's bang on the interface of the real and the imaginary. As the Augmented Blog says: "If you a.)…

Every so often, I come across this image and wonder at how different the world could have been. Would you buy an iPad if it had that black and white line-drawn oddity on the back of it? Apple's very first logo turned up in the recent issue of the Creative Review magazine and once again…

Powered by the Sun and controlled by your iPhone, the RC Eagle from Thumbs-Up is an inspirational and yet geeky way to roam the skies and investigate your neighbourhood from a birds-eye view. With solar panels on its wings, a camera embedded in its right eye and a GPS tracker in its left, the RC…

Google is taking on Facebook with a Like button of its own. The plusone button launched yesterday will be rolled out across all Google search results and will allow your friends 1) It's a little button with a +1 on it that pops up next to search results. Click on it to recommend something you…

Yes, it's true, some scientists did research on it and it got published in the Scientific American. If you ask someone for charity donation at the top of an elevator, they're more likely to give it to you than if you ask at the bottom research at the University of has just found. That's because,…

Currently the owners of pages can get some interesting stats about the gender and age of their fans via Facebook Insights, but one newly developed app could take it all a lot further and let you know - not just the age of your fans, but also how open they are, how happy they are,…