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Diesel brings Facebook to life in its stores with Diesel Cam

Dave Barros — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:15:12 +0000

One has to admire that anyone went through the effort of constructing such an innovative contraption, but the Diesel Cam's 'mirror on the wall' appears to be the first of its kind.

What’s with Apple banning satirical Tiger Woods app?

Dave Barros — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:26:00 +0000

For readers who go crosseyed at the huge paragraphs of text in our newspapers, the editorial cartoon is the page we turn to for a little comic relief – literally.

Sending up celebrities, politicians, or whatever takes the artist’s fancy for the day, they illustrate what we think but can’t put in words.

LOLCats inspires LOLCleggz: I can haz ur vote?

Dave Barros — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:37:05 +0000

“Fank you, fank you!” Nick Clegg might say. If he was a feline. In the midst of all the negativity and mud flinging in the political press, there’s a small community of people satirising the general election with a basic Photoshop skills and deliberately misspelled captions (maybe that should be ‘capshunzz?’).

iPad developers innovate with iPhone controlled games

Dave Barros — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:19:23 +0000

Brilliant! You find something that adds to iPad’s cool credentials and there isn’t a news release to be found, just this teaser clip to make you yearn for an iPad.

It looks like app developers are really starting to ramp up what they can do with the iPad. A lot of apps I’ve played with allow little room for the iPad’s tilt sensors, apart from basic screen rotation, but it’s starting to trickle through as game developers have a go.

Forget the fail whale meet Twitter’s Win penguin

Dave Barros — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:49:40 +0000

When Dale Larson asked Twitter’s illustrator Yiying Lu to come up with “the opposite of the Fail Whale” for their wedding invites, she came up with the concept of the “Win Penguin:”.

Future of Twitter is in a Tokyo Flash all in the wrist

Dave Barros — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:42:57 +0000

Good news for Twitter lovers everywhere who will no longer have to dig out their phone to check for updates they will simply be able to glance at their wrist.

Tokyo Flash, the procurer’s of futuristic binary watches, have unveiled one of their latest concepts on their blog. Cleverly codenamed ‘Instant Trend’ their latest idea is to incorporate news feeds direct to your watch making it ideal for real time updates from services like Twitter.

Believe it or not it also has time telling capabilities, cleverly concealed by counting bars on the display.