Author: ShinyJess
'The Social Network' conquers Hollywood with three Oscars
The Facebook film, 'The Social Network' won three awards at this weekend's Oscar ceremony. While it was probably no surprise it lost out to The King's Speech for Best Picture, The Social Network took home gongs for Best Film…
Advertising billboards will know how you feel (and they're not afraid to dish)
Intuitive advertising billboards is the future, and this future is a lot sooner than we might think too, according to a report published today by the Centre for Future Studies. 3D outdoor ads that can recognise people's moods could…
Facebook turns 'like' button into sharing tool
Now where's that 'unlike' button when you need it. Before you had to click the 'share' button to publish someone else's posts, pictures or links on your own Facebook page. Now that's all set to change, as Facebook alters…
Oyster card may face chop as Tube plans credit card ticket system
(Guest post from Shiny Shiny) The Oyster card was a small revolution in ticket payments when it was launched less than a decade ago, but it seems it may soon become obsolete. Transport for London has confirmed that by the…
Robot skin becomes reality: For lovable androids, or android police?
(Guest post from Shiny Shiny) In the Star Trek universe it was the Borg Queen who introduced Data to skin that meant he could feel touch – in reality this is now being developed right here on earth. The sci-fi…
Apple power: 93% of tablets sold are iPads
The competition may be lining up their troops to march in on the tablet market, but so far Apple is very much the king of this particular technology mountain. Out of the 4.5 million tablets sold in the third…
Justin Bieber dominance strengthens as Bieberhead app lets us put his head on any picture (yes really)
This one may well be the freakiest one yet – I mean, is there anything more scary than Justin Bieber? It started out sort of cute, with this fluffy little thing bopping around singing. But ever since that Rolling…
Disney tucks into social media world by buying pre-teen network Togetherville
The Magic Kingdom is now coming to the world of social media as Disney has bought Togetherville, TechCrunch has confirmed. This is a social network for kids under the age of ten, where parents sign up their children to…
The mind-reading vending machine that knows what you want even if you don't
They look innocent enough from a distance, but move up closer these vending machines will go right ahead and read your mind. Or at least they will scan you and make a good guess of what makes you tick,…
Say a command: The future of data is the spoken word, judging from Google and Autonomy
According to the Hollywood version of the future, we will eventually interact with computers just by speaking to them. We've come a way from humble beginnings in voice recognition, when cinema information lines kept messing up Brighton and Birmingham,…
