To the sound of much gnashing of teeth from assorted ‘OMG! The Moon Landings Were A Hoax’ nutters, NASA has released some astonishing photos clearly showing the site of the Apollo 17 landing.
Showing the kind of spirit that once made Britain the home of the Sinclair C5 and the Bouncing Bomb, engineer Iain Sharp decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by remaking the 1979 Atari game Lunar Lander.
In that game, players had to try to land a computer module onto the moon’s surface, but Mr Sharp has created a physical version, mashing up old PCs, fishing line, inkjet printer motors and a miniature Moon lander.
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So we’re at Brixton tube station. And we’re late for a meeting.
We rock up to the gates, slam down our Oyster card on the reader only to be greeted with a high pitched squeaking and a sign saying, “Seek Assistance.”
Anyone’s who been using Oyster cards for some time will realise that these little moments make up the joy of having a contactless ticketing system.
This has been going on for so long now, we’re tempted just to keep on recycling the previous new stories, which would either state:
1. Huzzah! The Palm Pre firmware update means that iTunes will now sync with handset again
2. Boo! Apple’s latest firmware update has once again blocked the Pre from syncing with iTunes
Wii Fit Plus, the follow up to the massively popular Nintendo Wii Fit exercise game, should be stacking up on shop shelves today in plenty of time for the Christmas rush.
In addition to all the original Wii Fit features, the updated (ahem) “exertainment” game offers no less than fifteen new balance-board exercises, plus six new strength and yoga programmes to coax lardy sofa surfers into some sort of shape.
The BBC has announced that it’s slapped backs and high five’d the folks at Stitcher.com to cut a deal to make the content of its World Service available to users of the mobile phone-based application.
The BBC World Service said that the corporation will “provide a selection of English language podcasts, with programming such as Global News, Digital Planet, Global Arts & Entertainment and Africa Today.”
We didn’t think this would ever get past the concept stage, but Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-inch netbook seems to be slowly edging towards reality, with a demo video running wild into the open arms of YouTube.
Packing two stacked 10inch screens that slide out to form one ultra-wide display, the Dual-Display PC isn’t that much thicker than a regular netbook.
Seen being held in an array of uncomfortable positions and angles is Motorola’s hotly anticipated Droid handset.
A quick reminder of the feast of specs in store: there’s a large 3.7-inch (480 x 854 pixels) touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with 4x zoom, autofocus, and dual LED flash, 3G, Wi-Fi, both physical and virtual keyboards and a 16 GB microSD memory card.
There’s also a beta version of the Google Maps Navigation feature that has just sent Tom Tom and Garmin’s share prices plummeting over a cliff.
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We’re aware that almost all our news stories in the 24 hours have been about ruddy Google, but if the search engine giant keeps on innovating, we’re duty bound to report the news!
The latest news is that the company have partnered up with first:utility, a small, independent electricity and gas supplier in Warwick with a penchant for displaying their name in the tres modern all-lower case style.
Search engine behemoths Google have elbowed their way into the online music market with the launch of Onebox, their new service for finding music videos, previews and images and buying songs online.
Allied with with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike, the service – which is only available to our States cousins – lets people rummage out hot tunes by typing in song titles, the names of artists or by using snippets of lyrics.
We like this. Rather a lot in fact, although we’re not quite sure why.
Go to ‘Mystery Google’, type in any search terms you fancy and whatever you write will be completely ignored by Google and you see the results for whatever the previous person searched for.
And the next person will get your search results.
Great anguished shrieks of doom were probably heard echoing around the offices of TomTom and Garmin as Google unveiled their new Maps Navigation tool.
Like all Google releases, it’ll probably remain rooted in beta for the next few years, but it already seems a polished enough product to set knees a-trembling amongst the traditional GPS sat nav vendors.
We’re hoping that Microsoft’s new operating system won’t fall over as easily as this, but click on to watch a video of 7,000 dominoes spelling out the logo for Windows 7.
There’s much-whoopin’ and a-hollerin’ at the start, then it goes quiet for a bit when one domino fails to fall over on cue, before the thing ends up in a triumphant bout of pant-wetting ‘woo-ooh-ing!’ as the dominoes finish doing their topplin’.
This snappy YouTube video documents Google’s rise and rise from their beginnings in Stanford, USA, eleven years ago.
Originally named ‘Backrub,’ the company was helped by some funding from Yahoo at the start (maybe they’ve regretted that a bit since) and the video runs through some of the notable events from Google’s history.
Sneakier than a slithery snake crawling around in a fake beard and dark gasses, the Minox NV mini II night vision devices is a dream for stalkers, security guards, doggers and other people who like to watch things that go bump in the night.
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