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Virgin America Safety Video

Virgin America sure does its pre-flight safety announcements a little differently..... From YouTube - Buckle up to get down. We've enlisted the help of Virgin Produced, Director Jon M. Chu, Choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott, Composer/Producer Jean-yves "Jeeve" Ducornet, Virgin America teammates, and dance stars like Todrick Hall and Madd Chadd to give our safety video a new song

Verbatim Dual USB Power Pack Review

Verbatim will be known to many older geeks for their floppy disks but since the demise of this market, Verbatim have branched out into newer media, products including lighting and water filters, and accessories such as USB power packs. Verbatim have an extensive range of rechargeable packs from 1,200 mAh up to 10,000 mAh and on review here is their Dual USB

Jazooli’s Portable Tablet Desk Stand Review

For some time I've been looking for a decent desk stand to hold my 10" tablet but all the ones tried so far have some annoyance or niggle. Usually the stand wouldn't work well with the tablet still in its case, but others would be bulky, flimsy, only for the iPad or just plain rubbish. The good news is that I

Eason Fails to Sell eBooks via Billboard

...or "Why DRM is killing ebook sales outside of Amazon or Barnes & Noble". Being a international superstar and global jetsetter*, I had the pleasure of passing through Dublin's Connolly railway station today. In the atrium there was a billboard display of book covers complete with QR codes. "Totally cool," I thought. Scan the QR code, buy the ebook, download

BTR006 Bluetooth Audio Receiver Review

A2DP Bluetooth rarely comes as standard in cars except on prestige marques, but most new vehicles at least come with a 3.5 mm audio socket on the audio system for plugging-in mp3 players. If you want a quick and cheap way to upgrade the car's audio to Bluetooth, take a look at he BTR006 Bluetooth Stereo Receiver. The BTR006 is

World Leaders In Their Underpants

I'm generally not a big fan of politicians. There's too many of them, they're overpaid and they get their job through a blind popularity contest. At least with X-Factor and Pop Idol, the contestants have to show what they're skilled at before we vote for them. So it was with much glee that I came across World Leaders in their

Yo no hablo español, Google

Mass personalisation is one of the great benefits brought by the web. It's no longer, "Any colour as long as it's black," but rather myriad options tailored to your individual circumstances. However sometimes the customisation goes a bit too far. Take the Google Play Store app for example. As a customer I have only ever watched English-language films, read English-language books and