Month: July 2014
Jimmy Kimmel parades $20 Casio as the new ‘iTime’ smartwatch
Jimmy Kimmel has pulled an hilarious prank on the streets of Los Angeles this week, With the hotly anticipated iWatch set to be released very soon he bought a $20 Casio watch and stuck an Apple sticker on the back to get some reactions from the people of LA, and some of the reactions are just…
Has Twitch been bought by Google?
Videos and streaming are massive in gaming right now, YouTube has grown to over a billion worldwide users and streams over 6 billion hours of video each month. It's been 8 years since YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65bn, and now its set to buy streaming site Twitch for a cool $1bn. Twitch has deals with both Xbox and…
Spinach could be the key to clean fuel
Take a break, Kale: this is a job for the original gross-tasting super-healthy green veg. Yep, Popeye’s old favourite, Spinach, is being studied for its ability to turn sunlight into a clean, efficient fuel. An international group of physicists led by Petra Fromme, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State University, is experimenting…
shinyshiny speaks to London Beauty Queen about blogging, apps and Twitter trolls
If you haven't heard of London Beauty Queen, then where have you been? Hayley Carr started the blog as a side project, while working as a brand manager in the cosmetics industry, writing about all things beauty from an insider's perspective - what does the product really do and is it worth the money? After…
We could see STD-killing condoms soon
As I’m sure you know, condoms don’t only prevent pregnancy and give you the edge when an impromptu water balloon fight breaks out, they also protect against sexually transmitted diseases. But you might not be aware that they’re about to get a lot better at it, thanks to an Australian biotech firm called Starpharma. They’ve…
Are liquid hard drives the future of storage?
Maybe I'm a wimp, but it's starting to seem like some scientists have a death wish. I was always taught that water and electronics were best kept faaaaaaaaaaaaar away from each other, but first researchers decided that dew could one day be used to recharge phones, and now they're looking at whether liquids could play…
Brick-A-Pic lets you build your favourite pics out of Lego
Lego has been around for decades now and it's still one of the biggest sellers in toy history and with it brings a lot of exciting projects such as James May's Lego house and this car made from Lego. Brick-A-Pic may not be as big as those projects but none the less its exciting, it brings…
Dropbox becomes more secure with new updates
If you store a lot of data online using some sort of cloud storage, you'll be pleased to know that one of the biggest cloud storage companies Dropbox is improving its security. Head of product for Dropbox Ilya Fushman said: 'Today we’re bringing additional security and control to the heart of where work gets done in…
This photographer turned spam emails into art
If you’re at all influenced by emotional blackmail and have ever almost been convinced that a Nigerian prince really will give you a share of his fortune if you just let him borrow your bank account for 24 hours, you might want to avoid this exhibition that brings junk emails poignantly to life. Instead of…
Facebook mobile ads give profits a significant boost
No matter how much we hate them, Facebook's ads seem to have given the social media giant a massive revenue of 2.91bn, giving Facebook a rise of 60% on the same quarter last year. When Facebook announced it was going public a lot of people doubted how well the company would do with mobile ads,…
