Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
‘Oh-my-gosh-have-you-seen-that’ Gun Stylus Assault Rifle?
I have personally never been an advocator of toy rifles, or war gaming for that matter that requires the use of virtual guns, due to the simple reason that they encourage violence. When therefore I read a press release from the creative interactive software developers, Plow Games, about the arrival of the Gun Stylus Assault Rifle Limited Edition, a gun that you point at an iPhone, iPad or other touch…
Stocking Fillers & Secret Santa specials: Gifts for under £15
Looking for stocking fillers, or struggling for inspiration for the office Secret Santa? Here’s a few ideas that shouldn’t leave you out of pocket… Joystick for iPad More gaming fun can be had on an iPad with this clever little add-on, which attaches with suction cups for easy setup and removal. The coiled spring provides force feedback that automatically returns it to the centre position and the joystick can be…
Gifts for him
Men are hard to buy for right? Not if they love their gadgets. Here’s a few ideas for you… Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105 Have you been a Call of Duty widow this year? Well, you might not want to encourage him – but if you are feeling indulgent, how about the Logitech Gaming Keyboard G105 – the official gaming keyboard for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, which has…
The sky’s the limit as Sky Movies come to tablets and smartphones
Just in time for the Christmas viewing season, Sky has announced that it is bringing Sky Movies Live and on demand on Sky Go. This means that Sky TV customers can have access to hundreds of films via their tablets and smartphones, as well as at home on their TVs. Sky Movies subscribers can use Sky Go to stream movies on demand over a Wi-Fi connection (there should be 3G…
Blurb: Self publishing to the iPad made easy
The creative publishing platform, Blurb, has announced its first step into the ebook market with publications ready for Apple’s iPad and iPhone. It’s pretty fancy stuff; the ebooks are optimised fully to display images and text clearly, they are created using Blurb’s established (and easy to manage) book-making tools, Bookify and BookSmart. So, for authors wanting to create their own ebook, the file conversion happens swiftly; the cost is a…
Silhouette iMirror app: Taking vanity to new heights!
Choosing a pair of glasses that suit your face can be an arduous task. It is also a task that, more often than not, is not given the amount of time and patience we would like to devote to it through fear of looking vain and taking up too much of an optician’s time at a local Spec Savers. Although these days of buying a pair of glasses on a…
Ebooker’s Hotel iPad app: No more chancing your chocolates
Long gone are the days when travellers and backpackers, unsure of where the next hotel might be, precariously ‘chanced their chocolates’ in entering a dark, dingy and eerie-looking inn down some alleyway in Outer Mongolia to get their head down for the night. Thanks to ebooker’s new Hotel iPad app, for travellers on the go, locating a hotel couldn’t be faster or easier. Exploiting the iPad’s GPS capabilities, the iPad…
US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories
In the increasingly evolving world of technology and gadgets, manufacturers frequently have to explore other avenues in order to thwart the otherwise inevitable prospect of liquidation from knocking at their doors. The latest electronics company to delve into fresh territory is US Robotics, known primarily for producing high-speed modems in the 80s. Given that modems that were considered high-speed in the 80s have been diminishing almost as quickly as VHS’s,…
Latest Gadgets at IFA 2011: Best of the best part one
It’s that time of year again, when the biggest and best in the tech world cram themselves into the labyrinthine Berlin Messe and proudly display their latest and greatest products. There’s *a lot* on display here and we’ll be looking in depth at some of the releases over the next few weeks. But until then here’s a quick run down of some of the more eye catching releases. One of…
New term – new iPad ideas
I had a bit of a laugh to myself when I saw a press release about going back to school and iPads. How many kids have iPads, I thought? After all, I’m a consumer technology writer and I don’t have one (that is a big hint, if any Apple PR people are reading!), so surely kids don’t have them? Okay, well now I have to eat my words, after a…
