Keen to exploit the product shifting possibilities of the famous Glastonbury Festival, mobile operator, Orange have announced the launch of a freestanding wind powered mobile phone charging station. (more…)
June 2008
Orange Mobile Recharging Tent For Glastonbury
HP Continue To Rule Laptop Sales
New quarterly notebook PC shipment figures by research bods DisplaySearch have revealed that 31 million units were shipped in the first quarter of 2008, with the notebook PC market shrinking 6% over the last quarter, but increasing 35% compared to the same period last year.
(more…)Nike Launches MMS PhotoiD Campaign For Trainers
Back in the day, kids used to customise their trainers courtesy of a marker pen and a bit of imagination, but Nike intends to go one better by offering a service that lets people create footware-based fun using colour schemes based on their camera phone snaps.
(more…)Sony Ericsson F305 Gaming Phone & S302
Details of Sony Ericssons new range of phones have been leaking all over the Web, with the most interesting being the gaming- orientated F305.Although it’s low on the usual hi-tech features we’ve grown to love – there’s no Wi-Fi or GPS for starters – the silvery thing packs a built-in accelerometer for Wii-style motion controlled games, and a set of PlayStation-like gaming keys next to the display, with a shortcut key to games.
YouTube Introduce Video Annotation
We were putting a video up yesterday (Virtual Mirror) and we saw that YouTube had introduced a new function – allowing video publishers to add annotations to their pieces.Hurrah – we’ve been waiting for a feature like this for a long time and had it as a ‘one day’ project for ourselves, for the last five or so years.
BMW: Flexible Skin On The Z8: The Future?: Video
BMW are thinking differently about cars. They’ve been busying themselves for the last six years with an under wraps project called GINA – “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptions.”House Of Lords YouTube Channel Launches
The UK House of Lords, is to launch it’s own YouTube channel.Previously seen by some as a stuffy, rather stiff institution, it seems like the House of Lords , or The Lords as it’s normally abbreviated to, is trying to update it’s image and become more accessible to the people. All good stuff that should be supported.
Virtual Trainers In A Virtual Mirror: Video
Here’s an interesting video that we grabbed at IFA last year.The concept? Rather than shops needing to have huge stock of every trainer available, all that would be needed is for a stock of virtual trainers.
This gives the shops a number of advantages. The shops can be considerably smaller, saving money on expensive ground rent; they’ll be able to sell trainers that they don’t have in stock; trainers that don’t even _exist_ can be sold – how good is that for a business?
Zattoo Mini Review: Live TV Streaming On Your Computer
Zattoo is a P2P applications for all three computer platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) that lets you view live streams of many TV channels.T-mobile.co.uk Site Down
Anyone been to the T-Mobile site today? Thanks to Ian who pointed it out to us, we’ve just visited there to find that the site is showing a single holding page.We all know that the online world has its difficulties with servers every now and again, but T-Mobile are claiming that they we’ve caught them “secretly working on the site.”
New quarterly notebook PC shipment figures by research bods DisplaySearch have revealed that 31 million units were shipped in the first quarter of 2008, with the notebook PC market shrinking 6% over the last quarter, but increasing 35% compared to the same period last year.
Back in the day, kids used to customise their trainers courtesy of a marker pen and a bit of imagination, but Nike intends to go one better by offering a service that lets people create footware-based fun using colour schemes based on their camera phone snaps.
Details of Sony Ericssons new range of phones have been leaking all over the Web, with the most interesting being the gaming- orientated F305.
We were putting a video up yesterday (
BMW are thinking differently about cars. They’ve been busying themselves for the last six years with an under wraps project called GINA – “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptions.”
The UK House of Lords, is to launch it’s own YouTube channel.
Here’s an interesting video that we grabbed at IFA last year.
Zattoo is a P2P applications for all three computer platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) that lets you view live streams of many TV channels.
Anyone been to the T-Mobile site today? Thanks to Ian who pointed it out to us, we’ve just visited there to find that the site is showing a single holding page.