First released no less than ten years ago, Google’s SketchUp has proved to be a popular and powerful 3D modelling app, with the company claiming that a million people a week are all busy knocking out 3D wotsits with the free software.
It’s a Friday, so what better time for a viral music video, and this time it’s a mashed up news clip given the “Auto-Tune the News” treatment, by the Gregory Brothers.
Apple has knocked out another of their slick adverts, this time bestowing fresh superlatives in its iPad device, only for a parody version to appear within hours of its release. Read more…
Amazon’s new Kindle eBook reader may be fast capturing the minds (and wallets) of millions of consumers, but it looks like Sony are set to remind folks that they were here first.
Boasting a list of no less than 362 meet ups around the world, tech site Gizmodo are keen to show just how big a force they are around the world, inviting their readers to a massive global party.
If you’re the kind of bloke (for it is almost always blokes) who gets excited by model trains, transformers, track laying and sticking little lichen trees around a board, then there’s a hotel in Japan waiting to embrace you with open arms.
Although Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has said that the new Kindle eReader experience is sharply focussed on reading books, the company seems happy to serve up a few distractions on its innovative device, with two free games now being announced.
Billed as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man.
The free service comes in several flavours: a downloadable desktop widget for Mac, Linux and Windows, an iPhone/Android application and an iGoogle gadget that runs on all the major browsers – Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera.
It may be a case of “free bumpers for all!” but Apple’s ‘Antennagate’ fall out continues, with this latest video taking a well aimed pop at the handset’s failings in the reception department.
Check out this astonishing video to see some jaw-dropping examples of what the Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 engine is capable of.
We know next to nothing about this incredible software but apparently its particle physics framework gives you control over:
- High friction granular materials
- Incompressible fluids
- Elastic structures
- Plastic deformations & more…
We can only admire the kind of opportunism that has seen these quick-of-the-mark entrepreneurs offering Antenn-aid, a sticking plaster to solve the much publicised antenna problems that have plagued the iPhone 4.
The European Space Agency‘s Rosetta spacecraft has beamed back some astonishing photos of Lutetia, an asteroid lurking somewhere between Mars and Jupiter.
They’re clearly completely pointless, but there’s something about these daft little Kokonatchi things that we like.
The squishy bean shaped creatures sit on your desk and wobble and light up when new Tweets arrive, and messages up to 20 words (like “hello” and “good morning”) can be played back when appropriate.
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