Feb 20, 2011

This week, Sony announced a new music streaming service. Called “Music Unlimited”, their service allows you to listen to music streamed from their servers. Sony has a huge music catalogue, which includes labels under the banners of Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music. We’re told that the initial...

Feb 20, 2011

Over the last couple of months we’ve droned on about the onset of drones. There have been a couple that have grabbed our attention – most notably, the Parrot AR Drone – and here’s another: The Hummingbird Nano Air Vehicle. This one though, is not your average, play-with-at-home drone. Rather, this little drone – and yes, it is...

Feb 20, 2011

In other Sony news, earlier this week they announced the “the game changing XperiaTM PLAY” mobile phone. Game changing? How about game playing? This is an Android based mobile phone that has an embedded playstation controller built in to the hardware. The press release cites Brendan Johnston, Sony Ericsson’s MD for Oceania as saying...

Feb 6, 2011

As you may be aware, there’s apparently a royal wedding happening in the next couple of months. To help others remember this magic night, Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction is releasing a special commemorative pack of condoms, complete with a portrait of William and Kate on the box, as well as a leaflet including a photo of the bride and groom inside the...

Feb 6, 2011

This week Wired Magazine carried a very interesting story telling of a geological statistician living in Toronto, Mohan Srivastava, who has managed to crack the logic behind the Toronto scratch lottery system. Using the premise that scratch lotteries should look like they’re random, but in fact are very carefully planned, Srivastava spent some time...