As the blog didn’t win last year (losing out to deserving winner, Girl Geek Chic), it’s even more important to vote this year.

Please vote for Witch Tech in the gadget category by clicking the ‘Vote for me!’ image or the visiting the website.

Votes are limited to one per category per email. The deadline to vote is 9am on 17th October 2011 – so get voting!

Once you’ve voted, simply tweet: “I voted for @Witch_Tech for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award in the ‘Gadgets’ category. Vote here:http://bit.ly/qL9cK3“ to be entered into a tech prize draw. I’ll award voters with as many prizes as possible. Winners will be chosen at random.

At this year’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Polaroid have unveiled its Polaroid Grey Label, co-designed by the one and only, Lady Gaga.

Polaroid Grey Label Line includes the GL10 instant mobile printer, GL30 instant digital camera and GL20 camera glass.

“I consider myself to be a visionary, not just a songwriter and a singer. I am an artist,” said Lady Gaga, Polaroid’s creative director.

“I brought my vision and love of fashion, technology and obsession with the future into all my work with Polaroid.”

“Polaroid has put a pair of Lady Gaga’s trendy big pants over its sagging bottom in the hope that fresh young faces will grab for its vintage product”

Polaroid said the product line stems from “griege goods”, a fashion-industry term for fabric in its purest form. The company said the line encompasses Polaroid’s heritage of delivering simplicity with the style, wit and sensibility of Lady Gaga.

The glasses are my favourite. My favourite comment is from YouTube user Amalgamation25, which reads, “Polaroid is a dead technology just like lady Gag.” Something to ponder.

Polaroid has put a Lady Gaga’s trendy big pants over its sagging bottom in the hope that fresh young faces will grab for its vintage product.

My bet is for Lady Gaga’s next shocker outfit to be made from retro Polaroid cameras while she sings an adapted version of Paparazzi.

We are the crowd, we’re c-coming out
Got my [Polaroid] flash [unit] on it’s true, need that picture of you
It’s so magical, We’d be so fantastico
Grey Label Line, garage glamorous
Not sure what it means but this photo of us
It don’t have a price, ready for those flashing lights
Cause you know that baby I

I’m your biggest fan
I’ll follow you until you love me, Pola-polaroid
Baby, there’s no other superstar
You know that I’ll be your Pola-polaroid
Promise I’ll be kind, but I won’t stop until that boy is mine
Baby you’ll be famous, chase you down until you love me Pola-polaroid.

See a video of Lady Gaga’s announcement at CES 2011 below.

See here for a photo gallery of the development process. Product photos and reviews to be published on Witch Tech soon.

Lead image sourced from Maximum PC.

Cosmopolitan magazine has launched its very own blog awards – and Witch Tech has made the shortlist.

If you appreciate all the latest tech news, comment and reviews here at WT, please show it and vote here for Witch Tech to win.

Please? Vote here by the 18th August.

Here are some of the things it does:

• Browse and search for articles to publish
• Post articles (or ‘Save to Drafts’) directly from your ‘Posts’ admin panel
• Automatic check-in and replace to make sure you have published the most current version of the article

But there are some rules to abide by. Some of the Guardian guidelines include:

1. Changes. You mustn’t remove or alter the text, links or images.

2. Key. If you don’t have a key, get one
at Guardian Open Platform. It’s required. If you do have one,
don’t share it or use it anywhere else.

3. Ads. Articles come with ads and performance tracking embedded in them. As above, you mustn’t change or remove them. You can, of course, use your own ads elsewhere on your blog, too.

4. Deletions. Sometimes but very rarely The Guardian have to remove articles. When that happens, this plug-in will replace the Guardian content within your blog post with a
message saying that the content is not available anymore.

A “Mumsnet election” was coined after the political parties turned to Mumsnet for support in light of the upcoming poll. The online community site, Mumsnet, has grown increasingly powerful, successfully campaigning against the sale of padded bikini tops for young children in Primark with their ‘Let girls be girls’ campaign earlier this month. It was also reported that Asda turned to the community site to review their children’s clothing products.

The growing power of the mummy blogger has led to the first CyberMummy conference being organised to hit London’s Earl’s Court 3rd July 2010.

The CyberMummy conference is a one-day event, bringing together a range of mummy bloggers from influential longterm bloggers to newbies just starting out to share ideas, learn the latest blogging techniques, bone up on technical expertise and discover how to work effectively with sponsors.

Confirmed speakers and blogstars include India Knight, BlogHer, Google, Wife in the North, Laura lee Davies and Liz Jarvis.

You can even take part by nominating one of your posts for the Crowdsourced Keynote, a final session in which a selected group of attendees read their best posts.

SeeSaw is a new online TV streaming service promising to find ways of making watching the box easy and fun. They’re looking to recruit testers for their Beta site to provide feedback and suggestions that will, ultimately, shape the future product.

SeeSaw is set to become a hugely popular online entertainment site; so this is great opportunity for a sneak preview before its general release.

The test period will begin week commencing 25 January and last for two weeks. You should receive your login details via email on or before the 29 January.

If you’re interested in being one of the first to use the service, please send your name and email address via Witch Tech email with email subject: SeeSaw Beta test.

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, as well as other online news portals act as link aggregators, identifying links that are of interest to be read and passed on. Linking to this content – and referencing it with a headline, short quote or summary with attribution – is standard practice for users of the Internet. Email and social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn are often used to share links.

This has recently come into question as heads of large media corporations, among them Rupert Murdoch of News Corp and Gavin O’Reilly of Independent News & Media, have accused search engines and link aggregators of stealing content. They have ventured to suggest that publishing headlines and short excerpts, widely accepted as permissible under the law, should be made illegal. The Government’s new Digital Economy Bill is also cited by the campaign as a potential threat to information sharing freedoms.

One solution to media owners’ concerns is to establish a method of obtaining permission to use links. While this would protect media content being given away for free via the internet, it would stifle the current freedom to link to and share information freely.

Currently, getting the latest scoop is as easy as linking out to a national broadsheet’s website from your blog. We must not forget that newspapers are vital to providing the influx of information that we are so desperate to protect. Journalists need paying, after all.

Clearly the problem of supporting journalists financially to report the news and protecting the free flow of information from pay-walls still remains unsolved. But while online copyright needs to be maintained, the solution to financial issues shouldn’t come at the cost of the freedom to create, circulate and follow links to online content.

Huddled underground, in an old Victorian public toilet, a group of geeks gathered last night to be part of the first technological happening of its kind in the UK’s capital: Ignite London debuted in Shepherd’s Bush’ s Ginglik Bar (a public toilet in a previous life).

It wasn’t just the free beer (courtesy of Box UK) that enticed geeks away from their computer-action-stations; Ignite London attracted a reputable line-up of speakers – and audience members alike (with rumours of a BBC Three talent scout lurking). WIRED UK’s Editor-at-Large, Ben Hammersley kicked off the evening with a 5-minute talk on Renaissance sex masters: The Sex Lives of the Great Renaissance Masters: How the Old Masters and Their Mistresses Changed Art (after admitting, no, he didn’t know what editor-at-large meant either). Things were getting off to a good start.

Ignite started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. Since then hundreds of five minute talks have been given across the world. Besides Seattle, Ignite communities thrive all over the world – in Portland, Sydney and NYC  to name a few. The idea is simple: presenters are required to stick to a strict format of 20 slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, making each presentation is exactly 5 minutes long.

But why is watching five-minute presentations so popular? As our host, Andy, said, we are bombarded by information on a daily basis. So much is vying to engage our short attention span, therefore, form is important.

An event Twitter feed was projected onto the venue wall, recording thoughts about the night in real-time. Audience members were actively encouraged to tweet throughout (even if it was anti-social to your neighbouring audience members); the person who tweeted the most even got a prize: umm, well done (?) @smannion.

Throughout the event, there were history lessons about the year 1794, political commentaries on Italy’s lack of democracy and Brazil’s climate change responsibilities, a military monstrosity in Operation Paul Bunyan by Alby Reid – as well as a celebration of design ideas, a controversial exploration of the relationship between austism and creativity – and even a little Sideways Thinking.

Oxford University PhD student, Matt Baker, got the crowd holding their stomachs and laughing  – out of amusement and digust – at his talk, Diarrhea & Dodgy Doners: What’s Special About Bacteria (My Dirty Doner), performed with a brilliant rap-poem. Expertly delivered. Much audience appreciation (especially so by @EmVicW who confessed, “Am a little bit in love with matt baker after his #igniteldn turn. Despite knowing too much about his bowels.”) The BBC’s Research and Development bod, Nicky Smyth, gave an interesting talk on Analogue World Design Patterns: A Look at User Behaviour too.

All in all, the evening’s talks were of a more philosophical nature than previous Ignite events I’ve been to elsewhere (with talks on how to make paper aeroplanes and surviving zombie attacks in Cardiff). The Guardian’s Chris Thorpe gave a thought-provoking talk about learning to “be” in a networked world; director of nowhere and co-founder and managing director of beyondnowhere UK, Matt Clarke asked us to, “Practice blending passions with talents” in his talk about Human Energy (also concluding by wishing us all “fantastic lives”) and J.K Tina Basi gave a whirlword guide to surfing the net as the path to enlightenment (using words like ‘koan’ and phases like ‘arrest the thinking mind’). Heavy.

Clearly, London geeks are thoughtful, soul-searching, sensitive types who use technology as a way to reach out in a quest to understand the world around us. But then again may not – a tweet from last night: @FridayHere Chips, chips, chips in the loo. Chips in the loo in London. #igniteLDN #Ginglik

Wired UK's editor-at-large, Ben Hammersley, snapped munching crisps before his opening talk.

The event was organised by Amy Thibodeau and Dan Zambonini who also write for The Januarist.

Tackling the tech-stereotype front on, the London Nude Tech Calender shows geek-chic stripped bare.

Featuring 24 new media entrepreneurs in their best birthday suits, 2010 promises to give the tech scene a sexy shake up. Better still, all proceeds go towards raising funds for Take Heart India, a charity focused on IT education projects for blind and disabled students in India.

The calender launches tonight at the Velvet Room at Sway, London. For a sneak-peek of who is featuring starkers, here are a few of the starring faces: