NASA has had its wrists slapped for releasing computers to the public and chucking them away without properly wiping data.
So if you’ve got a latent ambition to be the next person on the moon, then now might be the time to start chasing your dreams. First stop: NASA’s wheely bins.
December, 2010
Like the look of the HTC HD7? How’s about a free one? We’ve teamed up with O2 to give one of these epic Windows Phone 7 handsets away for absolutely nothing. All you have to do is send us a photo of your best home made gadget! It could be an iPod made from old pipecleaners, a Kinect crafted from a coathanger, or a PlayStation Move controller made out of a toilet roll and ping pong balls.
The Sony Ericsson LiveView is an ultra-smart micro display, pairing up with your Android smartphone to serve instant updates when you’re phone’s out of reach. It keeps you close to your social networks, puts live RSS updates from the web on your wrist, and instantly shows you who’s calling or texting. Read on, and we’ll break down its unique abilities in full.
While it might seem out of season to be talking about desert islands rather than the snowy woodlands of Greenland, with Christmas now just around the corner, it’s the time of year when our smartphones have to perform, and the time of year we all receive new ones from god old Father Christmas. Is yours up to the task or failing miserably? If you were stranded on a desert island, which smartphone would you take with you?
UPDATE: ShinyShiny has updated its piece to include Facebook’s clarification statement. In the comments of our own post here, the original author Anna Leachon tells us: “I can only comment from personal observation and anecdotes from friends… but it doesn’t really seem like that.” Are you seeing any funny results?
Facebook is on the receiving end of some curious speculation doing the rounds online today. ShinyShiny is positing that the recent Facebook profile revamp has changed the Friends box sorting order to show people who’ve looked at your profile. Pretty wild if true, but Facebook has confirmed to us that that’s not the case – so how is it actually picking them?
Yesterday we asked you what you wanted to see from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the game we said was the best game of the year. At the joint top of the list with a co-op mode, was the ability to assassinate Danny Wallace…
It’s been a busy morning in gadgetry. See what we mean for yourself in our lunchtime lowdown roundup: these are just the picks of the headlines!