Into Tech

There are those that love Sony’s Rolly dancing robot and those who think the Rolly should be used like the rugby ball it looks like and booted off the nearest …

Robert Thomson has made major changes to the management structure of the Wall Street Journal as his deputy managing editor departs to Bloomberg. The Australian-born managing editor of the Journal, one of owner Rupert Murdoch’s closest lieutenants, has set up a …

Sony Ericsson is launching everything but the kitchen sink this week and with Wimbledon just around the corner, it makes marketing sense to cash in where you can. That’s why tennis ace, …

Last week we wrote about the hoopla surrounding some racy images and videos Judge Kozinski had accidentally made public on his personal web server. This week, it was announced that a panel of federal judges will be investigating Kozinski’s conduct. I don’t understand …

The people who handle the technology at the Wimbledon tennis championships are going to have an uneasy time on Sunday, just a day before this year’s tournament starts. A team from the London Fire Brigade will be carrying out a safety …

So here’s a turn up: Encyclopedia Britannica - that venerable, peer-reviewed and terribly old media source of knowledge - is to allow users to write their own articles, a la Wikipedia. The news made me smile. A few years back, …

Time to feel the force that LEGO is planning to exert on your wallet come September when it unleashes the massive, LEGO Death Star. We are talking over 3,800 pieces of …

ITV’s £20m investment in broadband TV is starting to pay off, with 12 million views of programmes or clips on ITV.com in May and programming including Coronation Street, Britain’s Got Talent and Euro 2008 football among the biggest online video hits. …

While it’s great to see other players entering the music download space it’s hard to ignore just how dominant iTunes is, especially when Apple announces that iPod owners have bought over 5 billion tunes. While …

Hitchhiking used to be widespread until it was seen to be unsafe. Jonathan Zittrain thinks the same thing will happen to the internet …

Jonathan Zittrain thinks years of working in a closed system has made the media fall into ‘wierd’ habits which the internet is changing …

There’s just something about new wireless technologies that seems to make analysts over-estimate their impact. I still remember when people were talking about how GPRS was going to be a real DSL replacement. GPRS, of course, was an incredibly unreliable and ridiculously slow …

What’s your favourite piece of technology? My Bose noise-cancelling headphones. How has it improved your life? They shut out the sound of other people’s technology - it helps a lot when travelling! When was the last time you …

Mozilla set out to have the world download 5 million copies of its Firefox 3 browser in 24 hours when it launched on Tuesday, in order to create a new …

The ongoing ridiculous situation brewing between bloggers and the Associated Press has now taken a turn towards the enjoyably hilarious. We had already mentioned the fact that, despite the AP’s complaints that bloggers quoting less than 100 words were violating fair use, the …

My puny Vaio laptop has a weenie sub-80GB hard disk drive that I’ve been promising to upgrade but, considering that all the other components could do with …

We have covered our fair share of tiny - or pico - projectors here on Gizmodo but to date, most of it has be a bit foggy over …

Tired of watching your wine-glasses topple of that crappy wicker coffee table you bought in Oxfam for a tenner? Or maybe you just want something all shiny and happy in …

Next time you’re down the supermarket don’t forget to pick up your usual carton of 5-eggs. Not quite half a dozen but then that’s all the Bosch KGU30605 Fridge will …

Cameras on mobile phones are getting pretty advanced these days, with more megapixels than you can shake a tripod at and bundles of image processing technology to boot. Did you read about …