Author: Kat Hannaford

The best Android skin has married one of the best Android phones, despite HTC piping up in the back saying “sheeee’s miiiine!” While it’s not an official marriage, it doesn’t mean the love is any less real. More »

A couple of extra sizes of the E-series Vaio range first announced in February have been shown off today: a more portable 14-incher and desktop-hog 17-incher. Both have Blu-ray drives and the 17-inch model has a Core i5 chip. More »

On the whole, cameraphone pictures tend to “make do,” but with these new QuantumFilm chips from InVisage Technologies you could potentially ditch the Nikon and rely solely on your HTC. More »

After four years of development, the Plastiki finally set sail on Saturday from San Francisco, where it will travel 11,000 miles to Sydney. Its website has useful tracking stats for all nautical nutters, well worth checking out. [Plastiki] More »

Imagine a format that lies somewhere between photos and video, and a device that takes that format automatically, without you having to click a button. Microsoft’s SenseCam is a prototype that hangs around your neck, lifecasting everything you see. More »

This is it. This is the moment us BlackBerry users have been waiting for. After countless Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 OS leaks, our time has come. This could be the turning point—BlackBerry OS 6.0. More »

Well, they’ve succeeded in coming in at under $630, but even so the €400 ($542) price rumored for the Slate is still too much when it’s coming up against the $499 iPad. More »

Four years after the Aibo puppy was discontinued, some CAT scans and X-rays have emerged showing two of the models’ inner parts. The CT scans don’t appear to show any abnormalities, but then I’m no doctor. Or roboticist. More »

…World peace would likely reign—or at the very least, privacy watchdog hissers would slink back to their fluoro strip-lit offices. More »

Invisibility cloak project is back on! It’s from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light rays. More »

Cut out the laptop bag middleman with a laptop that transforms into a briefcase. Ok, so there’s no room to stash the power cord, but this concept is like a grown-up Fisher Price laptop I had as a kid. More »

Imagine having this on your wrist. The questions people would ask. The minutes you’d spend staring at it, trying to work out the time. Wondering why you spent $560,000 on it, instead of buying a house. More »

Now that Street View has covered 95 per cent of British roads, expect to see a lot more random snapshots of those eccentric Brits—like these, which show a comic book meet-up on a very remote island off Scotland. More »

Twitter’s good for a lot of non-passive-aggressive activities, like controlling Lego Mindstorm robots. This time it’s not a HTC Hero pulling the shots though—it’s one of those ultra-hackable Nokia N900 phones. More »

Have iPhone, download lightsaber app. It’s almost a pre-requisite for iPhone owners. From next month you’ll need a new saber app though—the Bluetooth-enabled Lightsaber Duel which pairs with other iPhone users for proper dueling sessions. More »

That letter Google received from 27 Chinese companies demanding compensation if the search giant pulls out of the country was as authentic as the average Chinese-bought Louis Vuitton handbag, as it turns out. More »

BlackBerry’s ugly leaked slider phone—supposedly dubbed the Talladega—might be released next month, if Engadget’s translation of a Korean interview with the CEO of a RIM supplier is anything to go by. Being a BlackBerry user myself, I can’t help but feel a bit dismayed by the pictures that we’ve seen of it…though maybe I’m finding it difficult to care about anything other than that leaked Magnum we saw a few months back. [Joins via Engadget] More »

Today I’d like to talk to you about…backing up. I don’t just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I’m talking ’bout backing up the cloud. More »

LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds into a keypad, and joystick controls on the back. More »