Mary Schatz, who some of you may know as the YogaMD, has released an iPhone app that is claiming to help with pain caused by sitting long hours at a computer – like many of us do! Mary is the author of the best-selling yoga book Back Care Basics, the Computer Relief, so she should know…
Super Happy Fun Fun Starts the iPhone New Year with Star*Burst
Super Happy Fun Fun have announced the release of their latest touch-screen title, Star*Burst for iPhone and iPod touch. Star*Burst is apparently a new generation of match-three puzzle gameplay, and scores some cool points because it was designed by the creator of popular 90s arcade game KLAX. With Star*Burst, players get a combo of fast-paced…
More drivers in UK use mobile phones since penalty charges were introduced!
Yep, in a simply frightening bit of news, some research has been done in the UK that shows MORE drivers are holding mobile phones to their heads since penalties were introduced! Now granted, this is indicative research so it doesn’t speak for the whole of the population, but if this is a representative sample, then…
NEC Biglobe to release Android-based tablet for Japan market
Whilst the rest of the tech news world is going mad about the iSlate (or not, as the case may be), we can take a look at another tablet that IS real. Pictured above is the ‘Cloud Device’ (ooh, catchy), by NEC Biglobe. It should be with us in Q1/Q2, and comes with these specs:…
Light Blue Optics to launch their first touch pico-projector product at CES
My buddy Ron over at picoprojector-info.com, tells me that Light Blue Optics are going to launch their first product, the “Light Touch” at CES (Jan 6th). LBO’s pico projector modules are Holographic Laser-based, and apparently allow the user to touch the projected image to provide user input! Their modules support WVGA-QVGA images at 10 lumens.…
Orange UK To Launch Mobile HD Voice In 2010
Orange has revealed it will be launching HD Voice nationwide for customers on its mobile network in 2010. In case you are wondering what HD Voice is, it’s the use of WB-AMR (Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate) as a codec. This provides excellent audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to the…
Two free airline tickets with every Palm Pre purchase from Carphone Warehouse in UK
The Guardian has reported that Carphone Warehouse is now offering two free airline tickets to people that buy a Palm Pre before the end of January. The suggestion therefore is that not many of the devices have been sold, compared to the volumes that were expected – which is a puzzler since every review I’ve…
Update: more official info on the INQ Chat 3G
I wrote a piece on the release of the INQ Chat 3G , and my slight disappointment that there was a dearth of information on it when it was launched. Well have no fear, INQs PR company have been in contact and remedied that! Usually I wouldn’t bother popping this sort of info up for…
Drum Kits ‘hits’ the App Store
Apple has approved the iPhone/iPod app ‘Drum Kits’, by Makayama. Drum Kits is the first programmable drum machine with 160 mixable tracks and a completely new approach to rhythm composition. It allows you to compose beats and patterns by touching dots on the screen. It turns your iPhone or iPod into a drum sequencer and…
Update: how was your Christmas for mobile data access?
At the beginning of December, I wrote a piece about the different perspectives on Christmas that people may have, based on whether they are retailers, network operators, or customers. My view on the customer side of things was that if you are getting a nice new smartphone (for example) in your stocking this year, then…