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Clear cable clutter with these crazy desktop pylons
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Clear cable clutter with these crazy but cute desktop pylons

Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 - by mike s

These desktop mini power pylons are so daft – and cute – they can’t help but cheer up any boring work area.

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Marshall take the fridge to eleven with their own ice cool beer fridge
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Marshall take the fridge to eleven with their own ice cool beer fridge

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 - by Lee J.

We know this is nothing more than a cheesy marketing gimmick and we know that any old fridge would do the job just as well. But – look! – it’s a …

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Samsung Galaxy SII upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich coming on March 10th [update: no it’s not]

Friday, Mar 9, 2012Friday, Mar 9, 2012 - by mike s

We’re chuffed to bits to learn that the long-awaited Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) upgrade for the Galaxy SII will start being available to users from March 10th [note: see …

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Hipsters a the celebration of animated GIFs into a hideous art-fest
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Hipsters turn the celebration of animated GIFs into a hideous art-fest

Thursday, Mar 8, 2012Thursday, Mar 8, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

We love animated GIFs and all the daft memes that have circulated around the web, so we were rather looking forward to watching a video called, “Animated GIFs: The Birth …

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computing / stuff

Lifelike Geminoid-F robot mannequin waits for a friend in a Tokyo Department Store

Friday, Feb 3, 2012Friday, Feb 3, 2012 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

We’ve been fascinated by the way Japanese scientists have been developing the Geminoid robots, and one of the ‘female’ versions has gone on display in Japan as an interactive mannequin.

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O2 gets grovelling and issues an explanation for their privacy PR disaster

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Earlier today, Twitter lit up with comments from outraged customers who had learnt that the network was handing out their mobile telephone number to any website they visited.

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Lenovo IdeaTab S2 10″ 1.5GHz dual-core CPU goes for the ASUS Transformer market

Monday, Jan 9, 2012Monday, Jan 9, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

If you like the look of the ASUS Transformer Prime then you’re going to lurve the new Lenovo IdeaTab S2 tablet-plus-keyboard combo, which teams up a wafer thin 10 inch …

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BT Tower in London loses its horns and dishes, ends up with new stripped-down look

Friday, Jan 6, 2012 - by mike s

London’s iconic BT Tower in the centre of London is now strutting a new, stripped down look after its owners were given permission to remove the distinctive microwave horns and dishes from the …

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Our top posts of 2011: Lumix LX5, Powershot S95, Nikon D3100 and Galaxy S2

Saturday, Dec 31, 2011Friday, Dec 30, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

With the year almost up, we thought we’d have a rummage through our stats to see which posts proved the most popular in 2011, and were a little surprised to find our photography articles proving the …

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Google / stuff / web

Google stamps the foot of death on Google Wave, coffin booked for April 2012

Friday, Nov 25, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Google has sent out an email biding farewell to its “I coulda been a challenger” Google Wave service, which was deigned to let users “communicate and collaborate in real time.”

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World’s largest 3D street art revealed in London

Monday, Nov 21, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’ve all seen those clever 3D paintings sketched out by street artists, but this incredible creation on London’s Canary Wharf quayside can claim to be the biggest – and quite possibly the …

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Astonishing NASA time lapse video from the International Space Station

Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 - by mike s

I’ve been totally blown away by this astonishing time lapse video taken from the International Space Station.

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Google / stuff

Google Street View invites users to take a walk in the park

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011 - by mike s

The Google Street View team has been busy, with the pedals on the Street View trike powering the cameras across the 22 different countries to snap some of the world’s most beautiful …

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Android / computing / mobiles / stuff

Samsung Galaxy S II LTE handset and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE tablet announced

Monday, Aug 29, 2011Sunday, Aug 28, 2011 - by Pete Railton

We love our Samsung Galaxy S2 handsets – in fact we think they’re the best phones you can buy right now, bar none – but Samsung has decided to up …

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UK vinyl sales surge 55%, as indie fans go wild for the black stuff

Monday, Aug 15, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

They can jump, bend, warp, buckle and even snap when a drunk arse crashes on top of them, but still vinyl remains the format that will not die. With sales …

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