Author: Toby Leftly

It can be a lonely life for creepy guys. Who do you have to talk to when you’re stuck up in a tree looking at some girl through binoculars? No one! Who’s going to bail you out when you get caught rifling through your ex-girlfriend’s garbage? No one! Well creepy dudes, your salvation is here. The Wii LovePress is a Wii game that could be the salvation of creepy guys who want to ditch the binoculars and just stay in for the night. The “game” uses the Wii Balance Board to allow “gamers” to massage a virtual girl in the “game”. Characters even respond with phrases such as “No, I believe you are gentle…” or “Stop!…

Geeks and nerds everywhere, prep your fingers for some angry typing in the blogosphere, this one is going to get messy. Intel has decided it doesn’t make enough money selling you a single product once, so now it’s experimenting with selling you that product twice. This genius marketing strategy is in place at Best Buy, where customers purchasing certain Compaq systems are offered a $50 upgrade card to unlock threads and cache capability that are otherwise unavailable to the system. You read that right, Intel builds CPUs and sells them to you, only to then slyly sidle up to you to ask if you wanted…

I’ve talked before about how no one in the tech industry is happy with the color of grass in their own patch. Apple wants to be Facebook. Google wants to be Apple. Microsoft wants to be anyone but Microsoft. Well here’s a rumor that could practically write itself. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch is reporting that according to internal sources, Facebook may be planning to release their own cell phone. The benefits of a Facebook phone are obvious: automatic contact integration, using names instead of numbers to make calls and of course, full Farmville integration for the agriculture junkies. But the…

Gmail is rolling out a new feature which will make switching to their free email service even more attractive – import email and accounts from Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL or other POP3 accounts. The feature is obviously intended to draw in users who would be interested in switching but can’t face the hassle of transferring accounts or don’t want to abandon their old email. Google’s email service moves along in leaps and bounds, while Hotmail, now Live Mail sees only occasional updates. Yahoo also today announced some changes to the look and feel of their email service. With Live Mail and Gmail pushing…

So the iPhone is the new king of mobile gaming, at least until Sony or Nintendo strikes back. But if you remember gaming the old fashioned way, you might not feel entirely comfortable with your iPhone 4. Here’s an answer to your prayers: The iPhone 4 Nintendo NES controller decal. Okay, it’s mostly for show, although it will help with that pesky “easily shattered glass on both sides” problem. Mainly though, the feature is that it makes your iPhone 4 look really, really cool, and at $5 from Etsy it’s affordable too….

A video has appeared on YouTube that appears to show HTC’s customized UI for Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS. Windows Phone Series 7, now Windows Phone 7, now coming to be known as WP7 is due to hit the streets in the near future, and this video appears to show a WP7 phone with several new apps and UI touches. The apps include 3D notes that fly off the screen and a cute “love me, love me not” animated app. The video, first spotted by mobilitydigest.com, is not official, but features the words ‘HTC confidential’ at the bottom, and one tile on the home screen of the phone shows the HTC Portal….

In the “no shit, sherlock” category this morning comes news that Apple is most likely planning to release a new iPad in the first quarter of 2011. Touch panel and glass suppliers are ramping up production for a new touch screen product with components shipping in the first quarter of next year. Rumored additions to the next generation iPad include a front-facing camera to allow FaceTime video capability. Some have speculated that the next gen iPad will include a smaller, 7″ model to bridge the gap between iPhones and iPod touch and the much larger iPad. The iPad has been picking up momentum since…

Hot on the heels of not releasing a successful mobile version of Flash, Adobe is turning it’s attention back to Flash for desktop computers. A preview release of a 64bit version of Flash Player, codenamed “Square” is now available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Adobe advises caution when installing the app which has several known issues, including video playback problems with Hulu.com, Audi.co.uk and NBC.com. The release also adds support for hardware accelerated rendering in the recently released IE9 beta, improving performance by up to 35%. The release notes state that the features being…

Microsoft is pretty chuffed with Windows Phone 7 Series, now known as Windows Phone 7, and shortly to be known by everyone else as “that phone I tried before I bought an iPhone”. But wait. That’s premature. It’s unfair to judge Microsoft based on past experiences. Microsoft is pretty sure their product is revolutionary, but holding an internal event where a giant iPhone is carried by pallbearers, indicating that Microsoft believe their new release will bury the iPhone is pretty much the textbook definition of the word premature. Apparently these kinds of internal events are common a large companies,…

One of the great things about Twitter is that it’s actually pretty easy to control and inhibit spam. SEO people have grabbed hold of Twitter because they see the value in fast moving, viral information, but stopping spam on Twitter is as simple as blocking or reporting someone. Yet still, the bots persist. If you’ve never had a bot retweet something of yours on Twitter, you’re probably not tweeting enough. But here’s something original – a retweet bot that is aware of it’s own futility. At the BMW Mini plant in Oxford, UK, a robot connected to Twitter is manually retweeting messages sent to it by writing…