Author: Katherine Hannaford
LG shows off their Iron Man phone at CTIA, an 18-carat Shine
At a booth over at the CTIA show in Vegas, a Gizmodo chappy spotted the above Iron Man phone from LG.
Sadly the phone above won’t be going on sale, instead LG will be launching a site called InsideTheSuit on the 15th of April. As you can see above, it’s simply an LG Shine handset masquerading as an ultra-pricey phone with 18-carat gold…
Yamaha announces the YSP600 surround sound bar
In terms of speakers, this £499 job from Yamaha will be suffice for the average person who owns a telly and a CD player, enthusiasts should probably look here, here and here instead.
Still, the YSP600 has a tidy amount of features, and can be hidden away under your TV, due to its small stature. With 1080p support and two HDMI-in sockets, your Blu-ray or HD-DVD player will love you. The integrated amplifier is pumping…
AT&T first retailer to purchase Microsoft Surface tables, in store April 17th
Ballmer may be wanting to sell us a Surface this year, however it looks certain that the US mobile carrier AT&T will have the privilege of stocking the touch-table in branches in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and San Antonio by April the 17th of this year.
When Microsoft first announced it in May of last year, it was promised to be in T-Mobile, Starwood Hotels, Harrah’s casinos and IGN branches by winter. Judging by the AT&T announcement, I’m guessing the deal with rival network T-Mobile didn’t follow through.
Customers in the four aforementioned branches of AT&T will be able to learn more about the available handsets…
YouTube Hits: Popjunkie TV
Admittedly we here at Shiny Media have a vested interest in Popjunkie TV, with the weekly music episodes filmed in our office, and the presenters Sean and Victoria being longtime friends of our company.
Nonetheless, they’re being billed as the ‘indie Johnny and Denise’, so it’s worth a look, to clue-up on the last week’s worth of musical goodies…
Is RecommendBox another social bookmarker?
“Not another social bookmarker!”, I can hear you cry out in anger. Ahh yes, technically speaking it is…but RecommendBox is different, in that you ‘recommend’ a link to your friend list, and not just ‘review’ it and give your opinion on whether it’s good or not.
Sound confusing? Well, it’s essentially still a social bookmarker – a UK one at that – but with your recommendations remaining private, it’s less pimptastic and more worthy links being promoted. Plus, the site has Amazon and Google Local APIs integrated, so when you…
Poll: Which technology company would you choose to sit next to at a dinner party?
Hidden within the Brandchannel survey that Daniel wrote about below is a rather amusing story about the polled people wanting to sit next to Apple, Virgin, Google, Coca-Cola and Nike at a dinner party, if push came to shove. Of the 3.7% of people who chose Google, one commented “I’d like to get to know them better, or at least hop into bed with them for a quickie!”.
Of the 14.3% who chose Apple, one claimed it was “because I’m sure they’d develop an easier and simpler way to throw a dinner party”. So, I present you with the below poll – which tech giant would you choose to sit next to at a dinner party?
The LiMo Foundation announces Platform Release 1, available at end of 2008
We haven’t heard much about the LiMo Foundation in recent weeks, it appears the Mobile World Congress sparked a few stories regarding Linux-based software platform, then all went quiet on the western front.
Until today, when news reached me claiming the Foundation has announced the LiMo Platform Release 1, which has been tested in handsets available commercially. It will be available later this…
New download will allow your Pleo to sit and sing apparently. Rick Astley choons unconfirmed.
As soon as I heard the Pleo dinosaur had an SD card and USB slots in its belly, the potential for after-purchase upgrades immediately sprung to mind.
The latest download, LifeOS 1.1 includes many prime examples of the possible innovations that could be brought to life through these slots, with your little green dino being able to sit for the very first time, as well as change emotions…
Toast One flip toaster *may* be a prototype for now, but let's petition the designer into production…
There’s something about toaster prototypes which makes my heart flutter wildly. This ‘Toast One’ concept doesn’t fail in making me all excited at perfectly-browned carbs slathered in Marmite.
The designer behind this prototype must have a problem with burnt fingers, as instead of endangering your mini-limbs poking them down the crevices in search of your bread, you can simply flip the whole unit over…
First seen at CES, the EX-S10 camera from Casio's Exilim Card series is now available
Bit of a fluffy story which is perhaps better suited to our pink sister-blog Shiny Shiny, but it wouldn’t be like us to ignore a camera launch! Particularly when it’s a new model from Casio’s Exilim Card series.
We saw the EX-S10 back at CES, where I took about a dozen hands-on photos of the super-slim camera which Casio is touting as a ‘catwalk accessory’. With a 10.1-megapixel sensor, they have a 3x optical zoom and 2.7″ LCD screen…
