Webism Today

Mobile internet usage is on the rise in the UK, according to a study run by market research group Nielsen Online. During the second and third quarters of 2008, around 7.3 million Britons accessed the web via mobile phones. Generally this represents an increase of around 25% compared to just 3% for the PC metric. [...]

After the huge viral success of alpinekat’s rap video explaining how CERN’s Large Hadron Collider works (okay, one more time), “G1 Love” is now making its rounds on every blog worth reading as the Android Forums folk show off their rapping skills. The first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, is designed for use on the [...]

After around twenty years of scribbling in notepads and scaring half of the planet, scientists finally got round to switching on the Large Hadron Collider. Wednesday 10 September was touted as the day when mankind’s dabblings in science went one step too far and the whole planet was destroyed. Luckily, this hasn’t happened but a [...]

Researchers at Hewlett Packard have announced what they see for the future of the internet – a village. This is backed up by recent research that discovered that 40% of the time people spend on line is used to keep up with 20 domains. It’ll come as no surprise that Facebook, Digg, MySpace and YouTube [...]

It doesn’t matter if you’re a fanatical PC gamer, a web designer, an office worker or just someone who spends hours surfing the web; if you use a computer mouse on a regular and prolonged basis you’re sure to be affected by sweaty-palm syndrome. It’s a biological fact that when a person comes in contact [...]

4,000 cigarette vending machines have been kitted out with age verification technology in Osaka, Japan. The facial recognition software installed into the machines has the ability to detect whether cigarette purchases are of legal smoking age. It’s designed to scan customers’ faces for signs of wrinkles, sagging skin and other signs of age. Facial characteristics [...]

If you were worried that snail mail was a dying art, then fear not – it’s making a comeback. The project by Bournemouth University’s Vicky Isley and Paul Smith is perhaps taking the well-known nickname for letters sent over land a little too literally, though – it’s involved fitting three snails with electronic devices that [...]

If you ever worry about that day your child/spouse/other dog asks you “can I have a puppy for Christmas?” it looks like you soon won’t need to fear. With Steve Yohanan ‘s “Haptic Creature”, an odd, faceless fur-ball designed to react to being touched, perhaps the advent of “Robodog” isn’t too far off. The revolutionary [...]

With every moment that passes it seems that the lines between fashion and technology are blurring further. None more so than in the crowded Digital Audio Player market, with wearable iPod Shuffles now matching outfits and some of the most memorable brands in clothing and accessories producing tie-ins to suit the fashion conscious, music loving [...]

Recent games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which cast players as axe-wielding heavy metal rock musicians have proven to be highly popular with console gamers. While tapping buttons on a plastic guitar may not be a realistic substitute for the real-thing, the mechanics and gameplay has certainly overtaken utilising a broom or brolly as [...]