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Making a sound like someone with advanced, post-curry bottom problems, Brando’s Sound Controlled Desktop Musical Fountain is designed to bring the park experience to your table top.
Gaze in awe at Brando’s fabulously pointless Sound Controlled Desktop Musical Fountain Read MoreThe rise of Android continues, with Google’s Andy Rubin reporting that the astonishing total of 700,000 Android devices were now being activated every day.
Android activations soar to 700,000 devices per day Read MoreWe’ve been loving the looks of Asus’s sleek Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet/netbook combo and the company has finally released details of its UK pricing.
The wonderful Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet gets UK pricing Read More
ACD Systems have announced an update to their excellent ACDSee Pro 5 photo editing and management software, with the update to v5.1 adding new RAW updates for several new camera …
ACDSee Pro 5.1 released, adds new features and extended RAW support Read MoreWe’re on Google every day but have to admit there’s loads of clever tricks that we’ve never seen before in this helpful infographic.
How to search like a pro on Google, courtesy of a tip-packed infographic Read MoreThere’s been versions of the BBC iPlayer knocking about for iPads and Android smartphones for ages, so this dedicated iPhone version is well overdue. The iPlayer for iPhone app is compatible with …
BBC unveils iPlayer for iPhone app with 3G and AirPlay compatibility Read MoreIn the past weekend, Android users around the world managed to burst through the 10 billion app download landmark – an astonishing total.
Android app downloads pass ten billion, growing at a rate of one billion per month Read MoreWe’re still battling to find anything compelling about location-based ‘checking-in’ services like Foursquare, although we can tell that there’s something in there that has real potential.
Facebook buys Gowalla in quest for Foursquare trouncing location-based dominance Read MoreFor the first time, Google’s Chrome web browser has shimmied past Mozilla’s Firefox global browser market share, becoming the second most popular browser on the planet in November 2011.
Whoosh! Chrome shimmies past Mozilla’s Firefox in global browser market share, IE still rulez Read MoreArmed with stereoscopic vision and some object and facial recognition programs, the Qbo robot can be seen learning to recognise itself in this short video. Placed in front of a mirror, the open source …
Qbo robot learns to recognise himself in a mirror, mankind trembles a little Read MoreGoogle has just thrown out a neat video showing off the abilities of the Galaxy Nexus and the Google+ Android app‘s Mobile Hangouts feature.
Google mixes up Galaxy Nexus, Google+ Hangouts and beatboxing [video] Read MoreSamsung have finally started rolling out their new Wave 3 handset, a high end smartphone powered by the latest version of their own homespun operating system, the bada mobile operating OS.
Samsung’s bada-powered Wave 3 smartphone heads into Europe Read MoreWhen the first Simroid – a super-realistic dental training robot developed in Japan – was released back in 2007, folks were pretty knocked out by the level of realism on …
Simroid robot offers ultra-realistic dental training, second career in sex industry sure to follow Read MoreIt’s clearly not quite the finished article yet, but NSK’s new four-legged robot with wheels has great potential to be developed into a robotic guide dog for the blind.
Stair-climbing robot guide dog continues development [video] Read MoreGoogle has declared itself pleased to be launching a ‘significant redesign’ for their Google Search for iPad application, and have released a plinky-plonky video showing off its new features.
Google upgrades Search app for iPad, adds swishy new features Read More