Tag: tech Digest
Loganberry Books: stump the bookseller!
Trying to remember a book you read as a child? Try Stump the Bookseller at Loganberry Books. For a quid you can post a description of the book cover, plot, characters, or any other details you think will finally allow you to get on with your life without that nagging sense of incompleteness. There are also extensive archives you can browse to try to escape your past for free. [GT]
Wii News: Resident Evil 4, Tiger Woods, and drum demands
You can’t keep a good zombie down. Well, you can with a match and a can of petrol, but you know what I mean. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition has been given a UK release date of 29th June, and will hopefully be the scariest use for the Wiimote controller yet.
Web 2.0 news: Google ditches Froogle, while mobile VoIP war turns nasty
Whaddya mean, what’s Froogle? Well, maybe that lack of recognition is one of the reasons why Google has chosen to rename its shopping price comparison service. It’ll now be known as simply Google Product Search. Froogle always sounded like a dance to me…
MySpace News is no Digg-killer
MySpace has just put its new MySpace News service live, so I’ve been playing around with it. The service has been billed as a Digg-killer, but it’s not really – at least, not in its current form. It’s a news-aggregation service with user voting, but with an extra layer of moderation in between the original news sources, and what gets onto the site itself.
10 Music 2.0 services that'll change your listening habits forever
Let’s get one thing straight. The internet isn’t killing music, any more than home taping did back in the 1980s. Yes, CD sales are on the slide. Yes, people are still using peer-to-peer download services to trouser free music, despite the threat of legal action from the music industry. And yes, it’s possible that a whole generation of teenagers now believe music isn’t something you pay for.
Blinkx Remote: watch any TV show you want online
Well, almost any. Blinkx Remote is a new service that helps you find full-length TV shows online. You can search by series and episode to watch shows including Doctor Who, 24, South Park and, er, Dora The Explorer. Check Techscape for the full story.
Cheddar-vision: it's not just for breakfast
We have webcams for everything from Coke machines to coffee machines (spanning the whole spectrum of caffeine), from eagle nests to panda lairs (spanning the whole spectrum of interest in animal bedroom antics), so it was probably inevitable that…
A Boybot and His Dogbot
Strolling along a path of purest basswood and pine, A Boybot and His Dogbot is a wooden automaton showing the tyke flying his kite on a very windy day. This one-of-a-kind piece was created by Dug North of pre-made…
Colour-changing LED lamp with giant remote control
It's a tad abnormal for the remote control for a gadget to be larger than the gadget itself, but it's nearly the case with the Remote Controlled Dimmable 5W High Powered 1-LED Multicolor LED Light Bulb (actually, the name…
Back Off Door Mat: Space Invaders under your feet
La Tete au Cube brings you a stylishly retro way to welcome non-aliens to your home: the Back Off Door Mat. It runs on two AA batteries and uses flat panel LEDs to animate the Space Invaders. The bad…
