Author: Stuart Dredge
Japanese engineers turn old mobile phones into new PCs
Recycling gadgets is going to become a high-profile issue in the coming years, since we’re not doing it enough. A team of Japanese engineers at Hokuto System have a new spin on the idea, turning parts from old mobile phones into PCs on business card-sized circuit boards.
That's not a Wii lightsaber: it's a Light Sword. Really.
And yes, we’re sure. See, if this was a lightsabre, it would have to be an officially licensed Star Wars product with the blessing of Lucasfilm. And, er, it’s not. Instead, it’s a Light Sword that looks just like the lightsab.. the weapons used in a certain series of Sci-Fi movies.
YouTube Hits: Steampunk Star Trek
What if Star Trek had been made 100 years ago? That's the question answered in this YouTube video, to joyful effect. Movie studios, sign this up for a proper film, it's genius!
All hail the personalisable pixelly mobile phone
For most mobiles, personalisation is basically about installing your own wallpaper or ringtone, rather than altering the look of the device itself. However, designer Nils Siegel has come up with a concept phone that lets you go much further than that.
YouTube Hit: Wonderbra spoofs the Cadbury's Gorilla advert
Y'know that advert with the gorilla playing drums along to Phil Collins' 'In The Air Tonight'? Genius, innit. Even if the joke's wearing a bit thin now after 1,700 airings on TV. If only someone would make an amusing spoof, except with a woman in her bra instead of a hairy gorilla…
Brainstorm: The ultimate widgety Music 2.0 mash-up
Mash-ups are the Hot New Thing in the Music 2.0 world, whether it’s music recommendation services pulling in YouTube videos, social networks offering digital download widgets, or PickyPirate mashing up Metacritic with BitTorrent. Hurrah!
RIM planning to take on iPhone with touchscreen BlackBerry
Handsets like the Curve and Pearl have ensured that Research In Motion’s BlackBerry isn’t just seen as a corporate email device any more. But it seems RIM has ambitions to push even more into the consumer space, by launching a touchscreen BlackBerry to go head-to-head with Apple’s iPhone.
Charlie Sheen holds his iPhone upside down
Look! Just look at that! Charlie Sheen is trying to talk on an upside-down iPhone! Kids, this is what years of drug abuse does to you. Be warned.
TechnoHouse unveils Litefast 360-degree LED display
Plasmas? LCDs? Tsk, they’re for idiots. What you want in your living room is a giant cylindrical transparent display, where four vertical bars holding 600 three-colour LEDs are arranged at 90-degree intervals. But who would sell you such a screen?
PickyPirate mashes up Metacritic with BitTorrent
Those crafty online pirates, what will they come up with next? While the music and film industries set about taking down the most popular BitTorrent servers, elsewhere new and more innovative services are popping up to take their place. One such is PickyPirate, which mashes up BitTorrent search engines Mininova and The Pirate Bay with Metacritic…
