If you thought stamps with pictures of railways on them were boring - think again. Royal Mail have just released the coolest stamp of a train ever. It's a smart stamp that has a code that can be read...more
Fans of the tablet computer have a lot to enjoy in this year's IFA offerings. The strongest contender in the field is the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but Toshiba's Folio 100 mobile device is pretty interesting too. Folio's trump card...more
"Music downloads have outpaced CD sales" Steve Jobs announced last night so he and Apple decided to whip the CD out of the iTunes icon for their tenth version of the software. Makes sense right? But where Apple usually...more
Samsung have caught the spotlight at IFA this year for their tablet computer the Galaxy Tab which, if Ashley is to be believed, is setting the agenda for the next iPad. But they have another show-stopper product this year...more
Nokia users sometimes feel hard done by in the app field, but the Ovi Store have just announced a little treat for their users - X Factor the app. One of Nokia's tactics in electrifying their app store seems...more
It's all about 3D for Panasonic's 2010 IFA line-up and they're releasing three additions to their glamourous flatscreen VIERA TV range. All show three dimensional images and they're all are huge - two at 42 inches and one at...more
It's all about 3D for Panasonic's 2010 IFA line-up and they're offering a neat little consumer camcorder to let people record their own 3D films. The SDT750 is a barrel-shaped HD camcorder with a lens from top German company Leica....more
Twitter applications will get a shake-up as Twitter reorganises to a more secure system of validating apps. It makes Twitter apps safer for users: instead of having to give out your Twitter password to different companies everytime you download...more
I wrote a quick post on the Tab earlier, which you can read here. Samsung has now issued the full spec, so I think it is worth highlighting a few of its other features. 1 It is HTML5 and...more
There was a fear that local words and regional accents and phrases would get mushed out by mass media - and that we'd all start talking like BBC newsreaders, or more likely, one of the characters on Friends. But...more
So how do you take on Apple in the tablet PC market? Well I guess you do things a bit differently and add functionality that Apple users can only dream about. And that's exactly what Samsung has done with its...more
This is Apple's second crack at the TV market. They went out and they talked to their users, and discovered that people want more content for cheaper, and they want it in HD. A slashed price and a deal with...more
They're ditching the CD in the logo (downloads exceeded cd sales last time) and they're introducing a social network based around music. The big new feature in iTunes 10.0 is called Ping and it's for "social music discovery". Follow artists,...more
Rake thin, the new iPod Touch is slimmer than ever before but otherwise looks very similar. The big new features are on the inside- the Retina Display, Apple A4 chip, and Facetime. There's a forward-facing camera, a back facing...more
Today is all about the 'Pods. The gist is they're getting smaller and better. The Shuffle Small, by god it's small 15 hours of music on one charge. 5 colours The sweetest feature may be the price - $49 dollars...more
A lot of bugs have been fixed, iPhone 3G performance bugs, proximity bugs. Then there are some newbies coming too.... here they are... HDR photos - that's High Dynamic Range Photos and to humanoids like us that means each time...more
It's not all family-friendly sports games on the the Nintendo Wii. This Wii accessory, currently in private beta (very private we hope) is a vibrator. A two-way remote controlled vibrator in fact that can send sensations over the internet....more
Motorola today launched the Milestone 2 - an update to its square-cornered Android powerhouse from last year. It's built over the latest iteration of Android, Freyo, uses Motorola's Motoblur User Interface and has 8gb of storage, expandable up to The...more
You would be forgiven for thinking high definition only mattered with images and video, but sound can be high definition too. It's just that no-one really bothered producing or enabling it on digital devices. But Orange has stepped into the...more
Photo apps for iPhone are big business, and with pin-sharp high definition video on the new iPhone 4, we can expect video apps to become even more important. Of course it's one thing to make an app that puts colour...more
From: IFA 2010: Samsung's lush 65 inch C8000 TV