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apple

iPhone Stocks Run out in UK, No More Until 3G

NEWS-14507-e8e2785af00f932d62ee235d8d91e1c9.jpgBoth 8GB and 16GB models of the iPhone are out of stock in the UK, according to both the O2 and Carphone Warehouse websites, although units are still ready to ship from the Apple Store online. I guess they're clearing the decks for the 3G version. Just tell us cuando, cuando cuando, Apple. [Pocket Lint]

5:40 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Addy Dugdale
1,827 views, 23 comments

cctv britain

Crossing Guards Become Big Brothers

If you wanted a sure sign that the Orwell-ization of Great Britain is underway, then look no further than this. Lollipop ladies, those kindly old women who man the main roads next to school, similar to the US crossing guard, have been issued with video cameras to record lollipop rage—as school-side road rage is known. More »

10:45 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Addy Dugdale
7,795 views, 78 comments

leds

Alpha-Oxy LED Spa Zaps Zits, Cellulite, Blues, Brings Peace to the World?

Admit it, we're all fans of LEDs—especially when they come packaged like this, but the world's first LED health spa? Purlease, is any woman gullible enough to get into something that looks like a Cylon's sleep pod and have what the blurb says is "body-intense LED light energy... together with physical stimulation, dry thermal heat and vibratory massage."? Vibratory massage, you say? Let me just slip into my bikini. More »

8:30 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Addy Dugdale
2,311 views, 11 comments

teen repellent

British Teen Repellent System Irritating US Residents Soon

You remember that lousy mosquito noise device generators in the UK that were supposed to drive teens away because only they could hear them? The ones that actually turned out to be audible to just about everybody? They're coming to the US. People here aren't too happy about it, with some bans and protests after (and before) some shop owners decided to install them. What do you think? Is this going to work better than calling the cops? [CNN via Boing Boing]

1:40 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Jason Chen
4,301 views, 83 comments

Latest by holysocks: With their earphones more like speakers, I doubt they could hear it either more »

drones

Morphing Micro-Drone Is Half Bat, Half Cockroach, Creeps Us Out

I don't know what's more creepy about this 11-inch remote controlled drone developed by the USAF for reconnaissance missions. Maybe it's the flexible wings, which close and open like a bat when landing. Perhaps it's the crawling on the floor, modeled after cockroaches, to reach hidden places to spy. Or most probably is the fact that they are planning to develop a large drone that will carry 50 of these little beasts, ready to burst out of its belly at any time. Whatever it is, I want one. [Flight]

5:00 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Jesus Diaz
20,456 views, 28 comments

Latest by anti-hello-kitty: Reminds me of the Zanti Misfits Outer Limits episode: [upload.wikimedia.org] more »

ka-boom!

WWII Mine Blown Up Spectacularly in Front of English Beach

This is what you get down on the beach on a Saturday afternoon—if you're in the West of England. Experts detonated a German mine from the Second World War after they discovered it in Bridgwater Bay. The 10 x 2.5-foot mine was dropped during the war by a German bomber, and was discovered sitting in mud by a fisherman. UPDATED: a couple of videos, one of the ka-boom itself, and another of the bomb disposal team with the six-decades-old behemoth, after the jump. More »

8:30 PM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By Addy Dugdale
19,141 views, 38 comments

Latest by bailey_ca: @undeadmachine: I always refer to that as the "Spicy in, Spicy out" rule. more »

carphone warehouse

Phone Retailer Talks About Giving Away Free Laptops With Mobile Internet Service

Laptops could be the next thing to be given away for free, according to the boss of UK phone giant Carphone Warehouse. Andrew Harrison, the firm's chief executive, reckons that mobile internet providers will be chucking portables at everyone in an attempt to sign people up to their services. More »

7:09 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Addy Dugdale
2,790 views, 17 comments

oh yeah

Dead Woman Buried With Cellphone Allegedly Sends Texts to Husband

A grieving widower claims to have been receiving calls and text messages from beyond the grave. Frank Jones, whose wife Sadie died five years ago, says he has been plagued by SMS messages and missed calls since she was buried—her beloved cellphone in the coffin beside her. More »

10:24 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Addy Dugdale
24,773 views, 102 comments

cellphones

Question: How Many Cops Does It Take to Bust a Ring of Cellphone Thieves?

This many, apparently. This was the scene in North London yesterday afternoon, as 600 cops in scary riot gear marched up a suburban street on their way to knock some thievin' heads together. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Addy Dugdale
13,122 views, 61 comments

gadgets

Gen-X Author Douglas Coupland Claims that Technology Makes Idiots of Us All

Douglas Coupland has been drafted in to fill Stephen Fry's shoes on his tech column Dork Talk, while the British polymath recovers from a broken arm. The Canadian author and artist has tackled the subject of gadgets and obsolescence, taking as his starting-point the fact that the box of techno-baubles he received from The Guardian in London were all unworkable in North America. And this got him thinking, about how time is now measured in "tech-waves." If that's the case, then what era are we currently in? More »

8:51 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Addy Dugdale
3,698 views, 36 comments

Latest by Pixlmonkey: "lazy sloth" ? this guy 's a writer? more »

cellphones

Motorola Firing Half its Designers at a UK Facility

Say you're a company that had a hit design about three years ago and have been banking on variations of that spec ever since. What's the best way to improve your designs so that people will buy them and turn your company around? Is it firing half of them at one of your UK facilities? Actually, it probably is. What better way to loosen up entrenched ideas than to get rid of half the people responsible for them, shocking the other half into thinking up something new or face the axe as well? Motorola says in addition to laying off these 50%, it might even close the facility altogether. [The Register]

1:50 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Jason Chen
1,921 views, 28 comments

Latest by FizzyPopMan: "Hello Moto!" More like "Goodbye Moto!" more »

crazy englishman

Thirty-Foot Trebuchet Fires Chicken Poop at Potential Thieves

A businessman in the UK has come up with a novel way to deal with potential thieves: firing chickenshit at them from a 30-foot catapult. Joe Watson-Webb, a retired showman, had the iron trebuchet left over from his days as a showman, and gets his avian ammo from the farm next door. Local cops have said that they will prosecute Watson-Webb if he uses the catapult to defend his property against arsonists and robbers—but what would they think about the other weapon he has up his sleeve? Watson-Webb is also the proud owner of a 20-foot-long cannon, out of which he used to fire his wife! More »

11:15 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Addy Dugdale
10,540 views, 51 comments

Latest by Warghost: Pisses me off that he can't use the trebuchet to ward off arsonists. I can't believe the cops are so stupid that they would punish this man for defending himself. Ah well, do the right thing and come more »

cellphones

Four Episodes of Friends Cost One Man $22,000

Stories like this keep us up at night. One woman was using her husband's Vodafone mobile phone to download four episodes of Friends. The downloads were interrupted as the man left his home in the UK for a business trip in Germany, but once his plane touched down, the downloads continued.

(As the headline suggests, this doesn't end well.)

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8:40 PM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Mark Wilson
51,268 views, 70 comments

targeting

J-Tas Surveillance System Has GPS, Thermal Imaging, Hunts Predators

From next year UK armed forces will be using a new "Surveillance System and Range Finder" which will allow soldiers to quickly spot and locate enemy positions up to 3 miles away, and call in the artillery using precisely-derived GPS coordinates. The new all-weather, day-and-night hand-held J-Tas devices are an improvement on older in-service versions which needed a tripod and lack thermal imaging. If you want to see what a view of enemy tanks through the sights might look like, check it out after the jump.

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9:48 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,179 views, 19 comments

Latest by sam1am: Oh I've played that game before! The third level gets really hard because the tanks start coming so fast. I might have to get my dos emulator up and running to give it another go after all these years. more »

blu-ray

Blu-ray Player Sales Up 600 Per Cent, According to UK Online Retailer

Stuart Rowe, COO of play.com is claiming that sales of Blu-ray players have increased seven-fold since Toshiba announced it was cutting and running from its HD-DVD format. The UK-based web retailer sold more Blu-ray players on Tuesday than it has in the whole of last week, and was the first to react to the Toshiba news by slashing HD-DVD player prices. More »

7:26 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Addy Dugdale
4,042 views, 25 comments

future radios

Four Crazy Radio Concepts to Celebrate National Inventor's Day

Today is National Inventor's Day, in honor of Thomas Edison, and Giz is going to celebrate it with some designs from the Work In Progress show by students at London's Royal College of Art. There are no less than four concept radios in the show, including this one by Mikael Silvanto, which melds a slide rule with an iPod-esque analog radio. The other three, including one which uses QR codes to hook up graffiti artists with pirate radio stations, are below. More »

7:53 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Addy Dugdale
3,360 views, 8 comments

Latest by guypatsy: You can not celebrate Edison with radios. Tesla was responsible for the first wireless broadcast, and he was a true inventor. If you really want to celebrate Edison you should burn radios, kill elephants, and power your whole house on more »

airport art

Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates that Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

Commissioned for the atrium of the brand spanking new Terminal 5 at Heathrow, Cloud is a digital sculpture conceived by art and design studio Troika. The five-meter structure is suspended above the escalators and consists of three layers. Find out what lies beneath the black and silver flick-dots, and see the sculpture in action below the gallery.

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7:18 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Addy Dugdale
25,975 views, 21 comments

Latest by zenpoet: @Gann: game, set, match! It would appear that he DID know what he was talking about. more »

format war

First Paramount Blu-ray Titles Spotted on Amazon

The first signs of HD DVD's ultimate demise may be coming from the UK on March 10. After the news on Universal and Paramount abandoning the exclusive HD DVD deal, it seems that Amazon UK is listing three Paramount Blu-ray titles with that definitive release date: Trading Places, Coming to America and Anchorman, the latter of which was never available on Blu-ray before (as far as we can see). Amazon UK doesn't list the HD DVD versions, and these are all new Zone 2 releases, not US imports. Could this be an error on Amazon's part or just a sign of things to come? [Format War Central]

7:40 PM on Mon Jan 21 2008
By Jesus Diaz
13,174 views, 49 comments

Latest by wetboxersguy: Coming to America? I thought that was a release from Vivid... more »