When fashion met technology (and said, ‘Pink is so last season’)

Forget pink tech. Editor, Jenny Williams, looks at how fashion is infultrating the technology industry – and there isn’t a shade of pink in sight
Let’s face it; technology isn’t a sexy industry. To remedy that, technology companies have been throwing pink at all of their products. Legally Blonde’s Ellie has been blamed for starting a [...]

Mirror, digital mirror, on the wall…

A new way of putting your slap on; L’Oreal considers ‘Virtual Mirror’ makeover kiosks in store

‘Try before you buy’ has gone virtual. L’Oreal will roll-out in-store virtual kiosks later this month, allowing customers to “try out” hair and beauty products virtually before buying them.
The kiosks use EZface technology, which acts as a ‘Virtual Mirror’, showing [...]

Surfing abroad: Hot or not?

Sunglasses, suncream, swimsuit…and laptop? As more holidaymakers than ever before are logging on while abroad, editor Jenny Williams asks if internet access abroad is enhancing or hindering our summer holidays

A recent survey claims 94 per cent of summer holidaymakers will be logging onto the web while abroad this year – double the number of [...]

Musings | 3D glasses

 You need 3D glasses to participate in any form of media these days. Next week, tabloid newspaper, The Sun, will publish a 3D issue (as reported in The Guardian), every new film release is in 3D, there’s 3D TVs, 3D adverts, heck, you can even get 3D scratchcards. By 2012, it is predicted that half of [...]

Musings | How to be a DIY Diva

My mother can often been found on the roof. Whenever there’s a leak or a tile that needs fixing, it isn’t my Dad who rushes for his hand tools; my Mum is the DIY diva in our family home. So, when I recently found myself in an electrical goods shop, asking about electrical fuses, I [...]

Zooey Deschanel to play Ada Lovelace in film adaptation?

According to Production Weekly, Zooey Deschanel is in talks to play the world’s first female computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, in “Enchantress Of Numbers”, to be directed by Bruce Beresford and released next year.
Born in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron – now known as Ada Lovelace – wrote the world’s first computer programme. She has become a [...]

Tiger Woods: Top 5 spoof videos

Tiger Woods has gone viral. Here is a round-up of the spoof videos doing the rounds on YouTube

Geek therapy: Ignite London 2009

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’s debut

#LDN Nude Tech Calender 2010 launches

Tackling the tech-stereotype front on, the London Nude Tech Calander is shaking up the tech scene.

A viral campaign for Kisses from Paris

Paris has more than the Eiffel Tower and Le Louvre. Paris has kissing. Lots of it. And Paris Ile-de-France have launched a new campaign to prove it. A short film by critically-acclaimed film-maker and director, Yvan Attal, has premiered online today as part of a larger campaign to celebrate the vibrant culture of Paris and entice young [...]