Dyson has released the 20 strong shortlist for this year’s James Dyson Award, but we’ve sifted through the inventions, and have brought you our top five picks of the best entries on the James Dyson Award shortlist, to bring you the most bizarre, useful and downright ingenious creations.
August, 2010
We are not sure how this will affect the “Are games art?” debate, but gaming has just had a little boost in academic circles with the news that Portal is now on the reading list at a US university. Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana has added Valve’s first-person puzzler to the list of required ‘reading’ materials for first-year students.
The Facebook movie, The Social Network, will be released with a scene featuring drug taking and bare breasts uncut despite suggestions that the apparently fictional scene could lead to legal issues. The Facebook movie’s producer, Scott Rudin, had previously indicated that it might be cut but the boobs and blow scene will now reportedly make the final cut…
The best iPad apps are by no means the best iPhone apps too. That extra screen size opens up a wealth of opportunities for bonkers new ideas and software, and we’ve got the very finest of them for you over to the right of the full post in our Top 5 best iPad apps chart.
The Medal of Honor controversy rumbles on. Now Gamers’ Voice, the pressure group founded by Labour MP (and committed gamer) Tom Watson, has called out Defence Secretary Liam Fox in an open letter. Something tells us it might be waiting quite some time for a reply…
Caught our Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep review earlier today? If so, you’ll know the PSP adventure knocked our gaming socks off. So much so in fact, that we’ve decided to give it the coveted number one spot on our Best PSP games shortlist.
UPDATE: An O2 spokesperson has told us Apple chose not to take part because it offers its own environmental reports on its products.
O2 has launched an Eco ratings scheme that ranks mobile phones in terms of their environmental impact. LG and Palm are the worst offenders, with the Pam Pre+ and several LG handsets making up the bulk of the lower end of the scale. Meanwhile, Apple has refused to participate in the survey
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Web browsing is a big factor when choosing a smartphone. Android Froyo has a big advantage with its built in Flash support, but how does it compare to the iPhone 4 and the upcoming Windows Phone 7? The chaps over at PocketNow decided to find out and shot the head-to-head contest on video.