Author: Kat Hannaford

As expected, Leica has lifted the lid on the V-LUX 20 snapper, which looks like the Panasonic ZS7, but with the much-salivated-over Leica appeal. It’s got a 12.1MP sensor with 12x zoom and GPS tagging, plus also shoots 720p video. More »

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think these floppy disk sticky notes are a lot more fun than the iPhone and iPad variants. Sure, you can’t design apps in the blank space…but you can come up with fun fake file-names! More »

Kooky-actress-it’s-ok-to-worship Zooey Deschanel has apparently been cast as Ada Lovelace in a new film chronicling her life, Enchantress of Numbers. Lovelace, who died in 1852, was an English woman who wrote the first algorithm ever processed by a machine. More »

Whatever your views on 3DTV, there’s no denying Panasonic’s 3D plasmas are miles ahead of competitors’ products. Which probably goes some length to explaining why Panasonic’s increased production by 30 per cent. More »

Hey now, BlackBerry users. Just because that Magnum hasn’t been found in a bar and leaked, doesn’t mean you can’t smile today. Though unless you aren’t in the market for a 2011 Ford Fiesta—you can resume frowning. More »

Now that normal service has resumed, it’s time to go back to dwelling on those all-important issues dragging us down before. Namely, 3DTV and the nail in its coffin—3D glasses. Step back in time with steampunk 3D goggles. More »

These wooden chairs and coffee tables are about as far-removed from the antique wooden furniture lining your grandparents’ house as possible. With resin strips glowing brightly, they look like zebra poo—or at least something from the ’60s. More »

You’d think iPads might be banned by schools because they distract students, but George Washington University and Princeton University have both put the kibosh on them because their Wi-Fi networks are way overloaded since the launch. More »

Samsung’s following up its 30nm NAND chips from 2007 with some even-smaller 20nm ones. Write-speed is 30 per cent faster than the previous cards supposedly, and are being tested in up to 64GB SD cards before they’re rolled out properly. More »

Here I was, thinking Europeans were meant to be classier than Americans—but have you ever heard of a Rectum Bar outside of Vienna, Austria? Do you even know what a rectum is? More »

…Provided you stop watching after 2.20 of the video, when the reassembly begins. Well, TechRestore couldn’t just leave an iPad exposed and vulnerable, could they? More »

Thanks to the volcanic ash grounding European planes, sea-travel might just become the new way to skip between countries, making this Saturday’s £90,000 auction of the keys to the binocular cabinet on the Titanic all the more poignant. More »

Snap panoramic photos on your iPhone for extra-cheap over the next couple of days, with Pano reducing their usual $3 charge to $1. They’ve just released version 4.0 too; with an even better UI and faster shooting-time. More »

This is all well and good, until a pedestrian rips your iPad out of the plastic pocket, jumps on their flame-throwing moped and speeds off, leaving you bereft and without visible turning aids. More »

Looks like Elonex saw IWOOT’s April Fool’s gag and decided that actually, what the world is crying out for is an iPhone to iPad converter. More »

The 15-inch MacBook Pro, with all-new Core i5 chip, got ripped to shreds by iFixit, who found…not much difference between the previous model, really. More »

Responding to a Swiss fan who emailed accusing Jobs of “deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes” about the international iPad delay, Jobs used some fruity language in reply. More »

It’s scaremongering at best, but yesterday’s volcanic ash story has turned into a right old mess for the aviation industry, with all planes grounded until at least Sunday in the UK. Even worse, a much larger volcano could erupt. More »

This is a great idea, but it’s kind of been done before, Apple. Already ticket retailers are issuing QR barcodes via SMS, to be scanned when entering gigs—though Apple does show nifty iTunes integration in its patent. More »

Toshiba’s gone crazy with Intel’s latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, adding them to the Blu-ray playin’ Satellite A660, C650, L650 and L670. Sadly there’s no 13-inch options with the new chips, a decision Apple made with the MacBook Pros. More »