Author: Daniel Sung
$200 "I am richer" application turns up in Android Marketplace
No sooner has the Android Marketplace opened up its pitches to paid for applications and there’s already a $200 one calling itself “I am richer”.
The app is identical to the infamous “I am rich” incarnation as banned from the iPhone app store after being bought by a handful of disgruntled consumers. The only difference this time around…
The £200 Crêpière Krampouzk CEBPA4 PRO luxury pancake maker
There’s a whole bunch sissy Shrove Tuesday pancake making gadgets out there like this one for flip cowards and this one for the plain gullible, so I thought I’d bring you the ultimate in batter mixture cookers so that you can get the correct kit in for next year or alternatively breakfast next week.
So, ladies, gentlemen, let me introduce you to the Crêpière Krampouzk CEBPA4 PRO. You may recognise it from…
Marantz go "budget" with the CR502 CD/Tuner mini system
Most products from Marantz usually get me nodding with approval and their CR502 CD/Tuner mini-system has already got my neck muscles twitching.
First up, it looks great and, if you’re after something compact that’ll fit into the right kind of space in your luxury pad, then aesthetic concerns are probably fairly high up your list. It’s got a nice sleek aluminium chassis and all the cables are carefully tucked in around the back.
Tick. So what about the…
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
If there’s a new camera on the block, then I definitely want to a have a play with it. So, when a new photographic system hit the headlines, a review model was just about all I could think about. A few months later, a couple of weeks getting familiar and this is what I thought about the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 micro four thirds DSLR…
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Samsung take it to the big boys with ultra-wide compacts
Compact camera releases have been two a penny over the last few weeks and having survived volleys glassware and patented tech from Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus and Samsung already, I thought we’d just about heard the end of it. But no. It seems Samsung held a little something back in reserve and by Jove are they worth waiting for!
The first, as pictured in somewhat unconventional vertical style just here, is the fairly low spec Samsung PL-10. It has a perfectly good enough 9-megapixel sensor, no zoom to talk of but it does work to an ISO light sensitivity of 3200 which is good for something priced at £179.
It has 11 auto scene modes…
Lights shaped like guns
Look, don’t ask me what the practical applications of a light shaped like a sniper rifle is. I don’t know. I don’t think there is one, and, no, I don’t think the bazooka, uzi or handgun make it any clearer. The fact is that these things just look good and, most of all, they’re fun.
They’re each made of lacquered metal…
Top 10 tech Oscar winners of all time
The red carpet was awash with make-up, jewelry and false modesty in small hours of this morning as a large troop of Britons waltzed into LA to pick up most of the important Academy Awards. So, on a day like today, it seems appropriate to look back through the history at those honoured with Hollywood’s highest accolade and line up the top 10 greatest Oscar winners of all time – well, the tech version anyway.
10.) 11001 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)…
Palm Pre teaser web pages launched showing WebOS
I was always dead against Palm after the insult 10 or 15 years ago in their suggestion that I needed my life personally organised for me. Wind the clock forward and it turns out that I do, but just so I don’t have to admit defeat, they gave their latest offering, the Palm Pre, not only cellular function but also look and feel pretty swish too.
So, just to wind us all up a little more seeing as no one still really knows when it’s coming and on which network – although rumour has it it’s Vodafone – they’ve launched a bunch of we’ll-tease-you-with-pictures-and-videos-and-stuff pages just to get us all hot…
Dial4Light mobile phone controlled streetlights
You’ve got to hand it to the Germans. Certain movements in the earlier parts of the last century might not have done too much for the national image but by golly are they making up for it now. They’ve basically got everything sorted. Their trains run to the second, they’re big on beer and meat and now they’ve found a way to cut their electricity bills by 25% without upsetting anyone.
You see, inventor Dieter Grote has designed a system for the town of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz whereby the streetlights can be controlled by mobile phone and so left switched off at night until…
Philips Cinema 21:9 available from June for €4000
Yeah, not a lot I can really add to that header. It rather says it all.
Basically, in layman’s terms, what we’re looking at here, is that the super widescreen Philips Cinema 21:9 LCD TV, right, well, that’s going to be available, as in, to buy and stuff, for €4000, ok, which is the currency that a lot people are using right now in mainland Europe and happens to be worth far too close to a pound for most people’s liking, and that’s going to happen in June…
