Author: Stuart Dredge
Life-sized beer-brewing Bender robot from Futurama
Pedant’s note: How can you have a life-sized model of a cartoon character? Doesn’t their size depend on the size of your telly? That aside, this is genius. It’s a big Bender (out of Futurama) robot, except with beer brewing mechanisms built into his stomach.
Mobiblu unveils cuboid Nanum MP3 player
Well, it’s way easy to wrap, if you buy one for a Christmas or birthday present. That’s the biggest selling point of Mobiblu’s new Nanum player, although the downside if you fancy it for a festive gift is that it’s only on sale in South Korea.
BreakUpEmail: the fresh new startup helping you dump your tired old partner
Breaking up via email is, frankly, a bit old-fashioned. A few years ago you might’ve seemed like a complete bastard modernist for doing it, but email’s time as the tech-head’s dumping mechanism of choice is gone. It’s all about delivering the news via a Facebook status update nowadays, daddio.
See inside Adidas' high-tech Teamgeist II football
The only way to make sure every refereeing decision is 100% correct is to replace the men in black with robots. The added benefit would be they could strike John Terry down with a laser gun whenever he oversteps the line between healthy aggression and dirty thugitude. Which is often.
Boy given detention for using Firefox in class
Man, the browser wars are getting out of hand. Now teachers are getting involved, handing out detentions for using the wrong application to surf the internetweb. At least, that’s what’s happening at the Big Spring High School in the US. Some poor kid was handed a detention for using Firefox in class. Here’s the teacher’s report:
Gun purse takes aim at stylish women
Look, I can see the appeal of having a purse shaped like an automatic weapon – if nothing else, it’ll scare off potential muggers. And the punning hack in me appreciates the fact that it’s called The Pursuader too.
German university makes a nanosized advent calendar
God bless scientists. While the rest of us are feverishly trying to finish off our work by Christmas, they’re messing around in a festive stylee and making nano advent calendars. Well, that’s what researchers at the University of Regensburg have been doing, anyway.
Microsoft taking Internet Explorer mobile… but is it a good idea?
Microsoft is planning to launch a version of Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile powered handsets. It’s apparently part of a strategy to take on the iPhone by matching it feature-for-feature – hence IE going up against the iPhone’s Safari browser.
BBC launches classic Parkinson clips on YouTube
I never liked Michael Parkinson. He flounders when interviewing women, promotes rubbish MOR-lite singers, and thinks Billy Connolly is seventeen times funnier than anyone else in the viewing public. There, I’ve said it. Sorry mum.
Harry Potter themed Archos 605 is just magic
Archos has announced a special edition of its 605 WiFi PMP, preloaded with the first four Harry Potter movies. It’s due on sale in January from selected Blockbuster shops here in the UK, costing £189.99.
