The Scosche iPhone app is a left field new program from the iPod accessory warehouse that’s just hit the App Store. It’s a free database of all its wares that matches your ‘Pod to your car, and comes up with the right kit for you.
December, 2009
CES 2010 is just weeks away. But before the doors to the floor fly open on 7 January, we’re getting hyped up about what to expect. And we bet you are too. Here’s our CES 2010 wishlist, full of the gadgets we want to get down with next year.
Fancy a free iPhone? If you’re lucky enough to be a student at the right school, you might just be in line for one. One house of learning has just begun trialling the free Apple smartphones for its students in a counter-intuitive bid to stop them procrastinating on their mobiles in class. Will it work? Not everyone thinks so.
Gamers’ Voice, the pressure group created by Labour MP Tom Watson to promote gaming and the UK games industry, is set to expand with a meeting in Parliament.
Watson is holding a real-life meeting of the Facebook-based coalition at the House of Commons today. He says the group’s goal is to fight attacks by the media and politicians on the games industry “because one scene in one game is unpleasant to one journalist”.
The Gamers’ Voice Facebook group has over 15,000 members but Watson intends to increase its reach. He aims to create “the equivalent in gaming of what the Football Supporters’ Association is in football. They’re going to give a platform to ordinary people who are going out there and just love playing games.”
Watson recently spoke about the controversy surrounding Modern Warfare 2 in Parliament and clashed with fellow Labour MP Keith Vaz who has been consistently anti-gaming. He says: “I don’t buy the argument that games ate different to films. As long as we’ve got a rating systems and parents know what they’re purchasing, that’s the key thing.”
Out now | £free | Gamers’ Voice (via Joystiq)
Gamers’ Voice, the pressure group created by Labour MP Tom Watson to promote gaming and the UK games industry, is set to expand with a meeting in Parliament.
A Doctor Who fan from Birtley in Gateshead has built a full-size, functioning Dalek from wood, scrap and an electric wheelchair. We’re just glad we live on the second floor.
Rob Bosher built his full-size Dalek for around £700. At its heart there’s an electric wheelchair with a joystick to control is wheels and a voice modulator to create the classic Dalek bark.
Bosher’s Dalek also has working lights and a moving eye made from a magic eight ball. Bosher who built the Dalek’s shell with scrap wood by hand claims he’s “never been much of a DIY man”. That’s impressive work from someone who doesn’t do DIY.
The Dalek has already taken part in a Children In Need and Bosher hopes to take his homemade baddie to other charity events to help raise money. It certainly puts our attempts at putting together an IKEA bookshelf to shame.
Out now | £free | via Evening Chronicle
A Doctor Who fan from Birtley in Gateshead has built a full-size, functioning Dalek from wood, scrap and an electric wheelchair. We’re just glad we live on the second floor.
Put bada to the back of your mind chaps. Because before Samsung’s multitouch friendly OS lands in 2010, the Korean giant has some Windows Mobile business to attend to with the sleek Samsung Omnia Pro B7610. Can this business blower give you that cutting edge in the office? Read our Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 review and we’ll give you the fully skinny.
The Cello iViewer TV could soon offer Sky Player TV streaming alongside BBC iPlayer, Cello Electronics has revealed to us. Want to watch the Ashes but don’t want a dish? Read on for the details on what this IPTV budget box could soon do.
Dell’s been talking Twitter and while the social network itself isn’t making money yet, the PC maker is. Read on to find out just how much Dell has raked in by tweeting…
Dell claims it’s racked up $6.5m in Twitter-driven sales since it started tweeting deals around two years ago. $3.25m a year in a turnover of $61bn dollars isn’t actually much but Dell is pretty proud of its many Twitter streams.
Manish Mehta, vice-president of Dell Online, says Twitter is a “very vibrant channel” and claims Dell’s total followers on Twitter have jumped by 23% in the past three months. Dell’s DellOutlet Twitter account is followed by almost 1.5m followers.
Have you nabbed a good deal from Dell via Twitter? Do you find company Twitter streams useful or irksome? Let us know.
Dell’s been talking Twitter and while the social network itself isn’t making money yet, the PC maker is. Read on to find out just how much Dell has raked in by tweeting…