Author: Katherine Hannaford
Skullcandy targets iPhone owners and Kubrick fans with their Full Metal Jacket and TiTAN earbuds
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I’m such a sucker for well-named products, especially when they’re a bit gimmicky, like these ‘Full Metal Jacket’ earbuds from Skullcandy, named after one of my favourite films of all time.
Not sure if Kubrick would approve, but I’m sure you will, as they’ve been ‘designed with Apple in mind’, allowing you to answer your calls, with an aluminium foil in-line microphone cable that slots into your iPhone, as well as listen to some Beethoven like Kubrick’s other famous protagonist. The frequency range is 16 – 20,000 Hz,…
Shiny Video Preview: Philips Design Collection TVs
Along with the Eco FlatTV, Philips also unveiled the new Design Collection of TVs last week. Check them out above…
Philips announces the DVDR5570H player to a collective silence from home cinema fans
Another day, another Philips product – this time the DVDR5570H. Susi over at Shiny Shiny has just been fondling it at the launch, and claims it’s “half fab, half not so much”.
With a 120GB option for €399, and a 250GB version for €499, they’re very pricey, particularly when you hear they only contain one tuner…
Samsung G600 Belle now available in burgundy shade, with free nail polish
Samsung’s G600, which has been available since the end of last year, has been given a lick of paint – burgundy, to be exact – and dubbed the Samsung G600 Belle.
Gulp. Available exclusively at Phones 4 U, it comes with three Nails Inc. nail polishes, plus has the same features the black shade had, with a 5-megapixel camera, 2.2″ LCD screen and a bunch of other Belle-tastic specs. Look…
YouTube Hits: The Cure's 'Friday I'm In Love' music videp
It’s not Friday, but it’s the Thursday-before-a-bank-holiday, so it may as well be Friday. At least, our whole Shiny Towers office thinks it is, anyway. So, enjoy the long Easter weekend, I’m off to see The Cure tonight at London’s Wembley Arena, but if you weren’t lucky enough to snag some tickets, just watch the video above over and over and over and over again…
Gnarls Barkley and the Raconteurs have an 'original idea' and release their new albums online
Right, this is it. As of this article, I am officially bored of all these shitty little bands releasing their music online, either in the stylee of Radiohead, Trent Reznor, or the Charlatans.
Gnarls Barkley and the Raconteurs are the latest bands to start milking the digital music cash cow for its sweet sweet milk, never mind that the internet’s users are bored already and have gone back to using BitTorrent.
Let’s blame Warner Music – both bands are signed to the label, who’ve just announced plans to release their new albums on iTunes several weeks before the CD pressing. At least the Raconteurs are also giving the music industry a second two finger salute, by disregarding the usual freeloading music press laws, and not issuing review copies either….
Superimpose your face onto Jack Bauer's, when Oddcast gets its act together and launches
TechCrunch remains one of my favourite blogs, for bringing brilliant new web 2.0 start-ups to my attention, like Oddcast’s 3D Videostar service.
It hasn’t launched yet, but it allows you to superimpose your face (or anyone’s face, really…) over an actor’s face in movie clips. Thus, your desire to be John McClane in Die Hard is fulfilled.
It hasn’t launched yet, and there’s no word as to the date when we can all get busy starring in our favourite films, but I’m sure TechCrunch will let us know, via Arrington releasing a clip of him as David Bowie in Labyrinth. *shudder*…
EMI joins Universal in promising tracks for Nokia's 'Comes with Music' service
A loose-lipped EMI representative revealed yesterday that they were in talks with Nokia about collaborating on their upcoming ‘Comes with Music’ plan, where handsets will be bundled with an unlimited music download plan.
If EMI signs on the bottom line, they’ll be joining Universal, who announced in December last year they would allow their artists’ tracks to be sold. EMI seems fairly confident they’ll be joining Nokia…
First pic of the Nintendo DS Guitar Hero peripheral, plus video!
Last September, the design manager for Vicarious Visions, Adrian Earle, blabbed about Guitar Hero for the Nintendo DS having an exciting new peripheral, to rawk out to all the Bon Jovi tracks the game will no doubt contain.
Several months later, and we have an official photo of the peripheral, thanks to the German magazine N-Zone.de. Instead of holding the DS in the normal manner, it’s held sideways, like you would when playing Brain Training, allowing…
Shiny Video Review: ten alternative uses for a MacBook Air
There are thousands of videos about the MacBook Air floating around the googles, so Alex thought she’d try her hand at something different – the top 10 alternative ways to use a MacBook Air.
Apparently they’re good for hiding porn, using as a flower press, and as a tray? Huh. Someone get Jobs on the iPhone, quick-smart!…
