It’s Sunday morning, and we’re keeping it easy like Lionel Richie doing a word search instead of the Sudoku. Here’s our pick of the best features on tech and online insanity, plucked and procured from around the web. Lean back and indulge your eyes and brain.
Industrial designers and conceptual thinkers don’t often concern themsevles with the fiddly ins and outs of physics or real life technology. If left to their own devices, they’ll produce the kind of tech you can only dream of: beautiful, if completely unfeasible. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the best bits from the future tech concept drawing board and hope for the best. Join us, then, on a weekly look through this best in blue-sky thinking tech designs…
For the last few days, I’ve been testing the new Klipsch S4A headphones specifically designed for Android phones. They’re aimed at bringing decent, iPhone like in-line remote controls to Android, and as regular readers will know, I’m of the view that it desperately needs them.
Are they any good? Well, Android’s boss should definitely check them out.
The internet’s an odd place full of scary things defiant of all known logic. Tumblr, the photo and video blog hosting site, is stranger still if you look at how little of its output can actually be classified as morally or mentally sound. i.e. Here are the Tumblr blogs that you need to submit your brain to, in order to say you’ve lived – including a brilliant one of FIFA’s headline-storming Sepp Blatter.
iMessage is perhaps one of the most understated of iOS 5’s features. Its seamlessness, the fact you only notice you’re using it when your message turns blue rather SMS green, is smart and it never feels as if it gets in the way. There’s no opting in or out, it’s just there, working away whenever you send a message or pic to a fellow iPhone owner.
But, let’s face it, it needs more. Today’s news that iChat code has been discovered lurking in iOS 5’s back end is very welcome and suggests, as per earlier rumours, that Apple is looking to expand its messaging service across platforms. But if iChat isn’t folded into iMessage soon, it could end up a busted flush.
Prior to its launch as part of iOS 5, talk was rife that iMessage would grow to become a much more central feature on the iPhone, with instant messaging integration and seamless access to the under-used FaceTime feature. And now evidence has emerged to suggest Apple is looking to beef up its iMessage service, with the discovery of iChat code within iOS.
Nintendo’s Mario Kart 7 hits shelves in the UK on December 2nd and the US on December 4th. To celebrate the launch, Ninty’s put its PR gloves on to storm the LA Auto Show with life-sized concept karts.
Google’s multi-billion pound deal for Motorola is a step closer to being completed, after shareholders in the mobile maker agreed to the tie-up. 99 per cent of those present at the special meeting of Moto’s current owners voted in favour. So, how soon will we see Moto become the mobile manufacturing arm of Google? Read on and find out.
