When a Kickstarter project sets out to raise $30,000, and smashes through that goal in five hours — and then five days later it has raised more than $1.8 million — you gotta wonder, how did they not see that coming? A “3-D printing pen” called 3Doodler is the latest sensation on the crowdfunding site. [...]
Twitter and Facebook consensus about last night’s Oscars: Worst ever! Weirdly, though, all of you seemed to keep watching, or at least typing about it. Presumably so you could warn everyone else about how bad it was? In any case, this is normally the point where I tell everyone who didn’t watch it that they’re [...]
Oscars perennial Xan Brooks followed the action live from Hollywood. See how the evening played out here News: Argo takes best picture, but Life of Pi helps upset Lincoln’s ship Full list of winners Xan Brooks
Life of Pi takes four awards, including best director Les Mis rables and Argo win three apiece Jennifer Lawrence surprise winner of best actress award for Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne Hathaway win best actor and best supporting actress It was always going to be the battle of the real-life freedom fighters. Would [...]
Mini USB Optical Mouse for Laptop/XP/Vista/Windows 7 – Retractable cable + scroll wheel Mini sized + retractable cable. Ideal for laptops. Footprint of a credit card. Scroll wheel makes it easy to browse through pages and documents Ultra lightweight and portable. Take it away with you Stylish black rubberised finish with contoured body Fast and [...]
VicTsing Slim Data Sync Charger Cradle Black Dock Docking Station for iPad Mini This New Dock Station offers easily access to a USB port for charging and syncing your Mini iPad or iPhone 5. Compatible with the new cable and connector of the Mini iPad or iPhone 5. 2 in 1 Features: Hot sync and [...]
You probably don’t know Nir Goldshlager, but up until recently, he sure could have known you. That’s because Nir discovered a major privacy flaw in Facebook’s OAuth, the system developers use to access all sorts of information every time you hit that innocent, little “allow” button. Nir gained access to virtually anyone’s entire Facebook account. [...]
Despite being among the brightest and easily identified clusters in the night sky, the trio of stars in Orion’s Belt are actually among the least studied in astronomy. That’s partly because the huge, far-seeing telescopes typically sent into space are designed to spot only the dimmest, most distant stars. But Orion’s Belt will finally get [...]
At one of the first keynotes of Mobile World Congress, Huawei today announced the launch of the successor to its popular Ascend P1 Android smartphone – the Ascend P2. The Ascend P2 has a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720) display, 1.5 GHz K3V2 quad-core processor (which Huawei says is the fastest processor on the market right [...]
Instashare, a new app which lets you transfer files between your Mac and iPhone, has gained ground lately as an easy tool for moving photos, PDFs, etc across iDevices. Now, iPad owners are in luck: Instashare is expanding to Apple’s tablets to provide what creators TwoManShow call “AirDrop for iOS & OSX.” If you often [...]
