Personal HUD comes closer with contact lens LED prototype

Researchers have produced a prototype contact lens that displays graphics, senses body chemistry information from the eye, and is powered by radio waves. Augmented reality, navigation and prick-free diabetes testing are all possible applications.
 

Quicken reaches out to iPhone users

Quicken has released a free iPhone app for US users of its Quicken Mobile service.
 

Personalising the desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to set the desktop background (also known as "wallpaper") on the popular Ubuntu distribution.
 

Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts!

During a retrospective discussion of his 1973 album ‘Berlin,’ Lou Reed was drawn to dump heavily on modern music delivery systems – the iPod in particular, although the others were clearly guilty by association.