When’s the last time you used a balloon for anything other than making animals or decorating a party? Well in the future, those inflatable flexible bags filled with gas could be repurposed for other purposes. Some folks over in Japan have come up with a way to turn balloons into input devices with the use of a pressure sensor and a microphone. Every time a user strokes, strikes or squeezes the... 

Best FM transmitters: Contenders and features There are various in-car solutions for listening to your iPod while you drive, but by far the most convenient is the humble FM transmitter. These handy little devices plug into the dock connector of your iPhone or iPod and create their own mini radio station, transmitting whatever’s playing on your iPod app on an FM radio frequency that your car... 

Amazon has detailed a new e-book format for use on the Kindle Fire, which is set to offer up a more interactive experience for things like comic books, children’s novels and cookbooks. New enhancements that make up the format include HTML5 support, fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics. In short, Amazon is hoping that its new e-book format will show off... 

The iPhone 4S wasn’t quite what many expected, and to be fair, we did contribute to the iPhone 5 hype by reporting on the various pre-launch rumors, but now the iPhone 4S is here, and it is selling well. The question is: how good is it, and is it for you? While the hardware changes are few, some are significant, and the iPhone 4S has the advantage of using a largely proven design, which is... 

The history of the iPod Ten years ago on Sunday, the iPod was launched. And it was with more of a whimper than a bang. The launch event on 23 October 2001 was held at Apple’s Cupertino campus for a small gaggle of invited journalists, and not even deserving of a proper MacWorld keynote. Despite the lack of prestige, Steve Jobs obviously knew he was onto a winner, because he launched iPod with... 

Since Microsoft purchased Skype earlier this year for a king’s ransom (to the tune of $8.5 billion to be exact), there was one question that constantly made its rounds online as well as offline – will Microsoft be incorporating the Skype VoIP software into future Windows Phone releases? The answer is still a definite yes according to industry insiders, but with regards to its status as... 

Last week it was revealed that Battlefield 3 for the Xbox 360 would be a bit different from the PlayStation 3 and PC versions: the Xbox 360 version of the game will be shipping with a second disk that contains an optional hi-res texture pack for people who want the game to look better on the console. For those of you who were puzzled by the incident, the folks over at GamerZine managed to catch up... 

Beats by Dre, the expensive headphone company started by expensive rapper Dr Dre and expensive lead company Monster, is considering a UK store in London’s trendy Shoreditch. According to our friends at T3, Omar Johnson, Beats’ US head of marketing, said that the company was looking to establish a UK presence. "We’ve been looking at the Shoreditch area of London," said Johnson....