Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:50:06 +0000
Last night I caught the first episode of the Beeb’s new series ‘British Style Genius‘ I, like Susie at Style Bubble & I’m sure many more of the stylish bloggers out there, was really looking forward to a show with the focus on distinct British style, past & present, and not just another ‘What to [...]Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:54:04 +0000
The LG Renoir KC910 is due in a phone shop near you later this month and the GSMarena team managed to get hold of a rare pre-release handset last week. They are, I’m pleased but not surprised to say, impressed:
LG KC910 Renoir represents the latest and greatest of the cameraphone breed. ….
Just to give you [...]Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:11:19 +0000
Sounds like a slightly trippy start to the week, doesn’t it?
Rocio from the Spanish LG Blog brought Workshopped to my attention today - Workshopped is an Australian site championing Aussie design talent, it caught Rocio’s eye thanks to the ‘Twist Bench’ by Kenan Wang:
I always want to design furniture which has beautiful surface and nice [...]Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:23:26 +0000
I may be slow on the uptake here(?) but I’ve just come across Yearbook Yourself a great little site where you upload a photo of yourself for a chance to see what you would look like in yearbook photos from the 1950’s through to the ‘noughties’. It’s been a real distraction in our office this [...]Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:31:36 +0000
The wonders of the web, eh? Here’s a couple of photos I wanted to share…
She’s a petite 20 inches (50cm) tall and weighs a mere 5kg (11 pounds) but this unicycling robot, called “Murata Seiko-chan”, is getting quite a lot of attention today.
Seiko-chan was developed by Japanese electronics maker Murata Manufacturing Co. as a follow [...]Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:10:59 +0000
Whew, it’s been a busy few days! Late last week we launched the LG Renoir KC910, our new 8 megapixel camera, and we invited some bloggers down to a party in London to get to grips with it. As well as us from the LG blog and some of the phone marketing guys, they also [...]Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:09:13 +0000
An interesting bit of news over at Phones Review - a major UK bank is allowing you to now manage your account via mobile Internet:
Lloyds TSB announced today that they have a facility for customers to transfer between their accounts via their mobile phones. Not only that the service will also keep your security in [...]Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:13:35 +0000
The music industry has been one of those most changed by the Internet, and despite the boom in online music download services, it’s interesting to see that today the music companies have launched a new physical format for music called slotMusic. Pocket Picks says:
slotMusic is a fancy way of saying DRM-free MP3 laden microSD cards. [...]Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:55:29 +0000
So, it’s - sorry, it be - the 7th International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, if you’d some how managed to not notice yet. Once you’ve found your eye patch (what this old thing..?) and got yourself a new Pirate name (I’m now “Disembowlin’ Helga Straw” apparently.. Try saying that after a barrel of [...]Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:07:46 +0000
The Corpus Clock is a thing of terrifying beauty:
The brainchild of Dr John Taylor, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the unique timepiece uses the rare grasshopper escapement (the thing at the top) to regulate the ticking, like the early clocks of renowned clockmaker John Harrison. Incorporated into grasshopper design, the aim is, according [...]
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