Webism Today

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 [...]

According to the most recent statistics, the UK boasts 4.2 million CCTV cameras – that is one for every 14 people in the country. The small island has so many cameras that the total number of cameras in the UK counts for 20% of all the cameras in the world. With so many cameras poised [...]

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 [...]

It was the marketing ploy to end all marketing ploys… well, maybe not, but it was a damn good idea drummed up by Mozilla to encourage internet users to download their latest version of Firefox. Creating a website specifically for the record, Mozilla announced they were going to attempt to set a Guinness World Record [...]

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 [...]

It all started with an announcement on 9th April that the two companies had been courting for a while and that now was the right time to spread their good news to the public: the immediate integration of BBC’s iPlayer into Nintendo’s Opera powered internet channel on the Wii. As FunkyGuy on FashionFunky comments, when [...]

These days it pays to be green and within almost every aspect of our lives, from drinking beer to opening bank accounts, there is an environmentally conscious option. In the world of the sustainability, things could only get bigger; first we had eco-houses, then came green skyscrapers, and as blogger Superforest NYC says, it’s exciting [...]

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 [...]

Becky Stern of the CraftZine’s blog found this quirky looking purse. What do you make of it? Refreshingly new, not for you or perhaps even a little off? Quite a few people we’ve showed the picture too thought the design was pretty funky. The commends at CraftZine less welcoming though and commentator Ellen even asked, [...]