It’s been another busy morning in tech, so let’s see what exactly went down. Read on for our lunchtime lowdown newsflash roundup.
May, 2011
Wasteful, moronic, sickening… and yet hugely satisfying to watch. That’s our verdict on the bizarre video below, which shows three leading smartphones grilled like common hamburgers (or ‘patties’ if you are American and slightly twee). We particularly like the bit where the iPhone pleads for its life by flashing up a hazard sign with the word ‘Temperature’ written ominously below. As you’ll note, it doesn’t hold out nearly as long as the eventual winner – the HTC Windows Phone 7 device. Read more
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a compact camera bundled with a selection of cases adorned with your favourite DC superhero characters? Er, actually it is the latter – click through for the details and all the photos of the new limited edition Pentax RS1500 and the rest of its league of accessories.
Got an Android phone but also rocking an Apple TV or a Sonos system? If you’ve been envying your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad-owning friends with AirPlay, you need envy no longer…
Here’s a gaming combination made in our geekiest daydreams: our long-time obsession Minecraft injected with elements that make Portal 2 baffling and brilliant: the Portal gun, heel springs, energy pellets and test chambers. The PortalCraft mod is available right now and you can see video of it in action after the break. It’s brilliant…
Angry Birds’ quest for world domination is pretty much complete. We’ve had Angry Birds toys and, of course, the Angry Birds cake and now, it’s doing a Skynet, with an Angry Birds robot.
Finnish company OptoFidelity has built a robot whose entire raison d’être is to play Angry Birds. It’s more than a little bit amazing and it’s certainly better at Angry Birds than most people. You can see the Angry Birds robot doing its stuff after the break…
Fortune has spilled the beans on a tranche of internal Apple secrets in an affort to sell its new iPad app. One of the most interesting revelations is a section on the Apple University that Steve Jobs founded to teach the firm’s up and coming execs to make the right decisions i.e. the decisions that he would make.
Essentially, Apple University seems to be based on the principle WWSD? (What Would Steve Do?). Read on for a glimpse at the secrets of Apple University…
If you were expecting to see the PlayStation Network back online by now, you’re out of luck. After another awful weekend, Sony admitted that the PlayStation Network will remain switched off for at least a few more days.
In a statement on the Sony PlayStation blog it says: “We’re still working to confirm the security of the network infrastructure as well as working with a variety of outside entities to confirm with them the security of the system…”