Chris Stevens used to write reviews and make funny videos for CNET UK. He left to start an app company, Atomic Antelope, which made the smash-hit Alice for the iPad apps. Now he’s written a book about the app development scene, Appillionaires. This is an exclusive extract. Previous generations strapped on electric guitars and fought …

The deformed children of the first dotcom boom roam the streets like dogs, but it looks like background radiation must be reaching safe levels again because new heroes are rising. Google’s purchase of YouTube for $1.65bn and Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace for $580m are just two of the more flamboyant transactions sprung from this new-found confidence. But this is just …

The cheaper end of the DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector market is plagued by the dreaded ‘acid-trip’, or ‘rainbow’ effect, a kind of visual distortion that causes red, green and blue motion-blur artefacting when you flit your eyes across the screen. To paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson (he of gonzo journalism fame), there is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a …

Football. Opium of the proletarian mind. You may find 22 men kicking a ball around a patch of grass about as exciting as embroidery, but at least there’s the possibility of a ringside seat at some good old ultraviolence. And if bloodshed’s on your mind, then high definition is what you need: what finer way is there to watch a hooligan deranged …

Little Timmy’s kicking the back seat, you’ve run out of Ritalin, and you don’t want to waste any more tranquiliser darts on the urchin of your discontent. What’s a parent to do? Why not strap one of these Mustek LCD screens to the back of your headrest and sedate the chimp of your loins with a DVD movie? The quality …

Chronos, God of time, born from Chaos, celebrated star of Greek mythology, and now a bedside alarm clock. How far the great have fallen. Did the great God Chronos imagine that one day he would be awakening the commuter from her hazy red wine slumber and propelling her into the bathroom to the wolverine yapping of Coldplay? We’ve looked at …

We were promised music for every generation, culture and religion, but did we get any of this? Did DAB really deliver? The DAB revolution promised CD-quality sound and a dazzling choice of radio stations. It promised digital airwaves filled with indie outfits broadcasting deliciously quirky music from the underground scene. Did this happen? No. DAB slapped us in the face …

In the past, the movie industry has behaved a lot like King Kong, wandering wounded through the Internet, lashing out at anything that looks like it might pose a threat. But it looks like someone’s shot a tranq into the beast, and it’s had a change of heart. Universal Pictures announced yesterday that it would release Peter Jackson’s King Kong …

Love is Radio 4 on a crisp spring morning. Love is static-free reception. Love is hundreds of different niche-interest stations. Your love may waver because of low digital radio bit rates across the UK, but then all affairs have their moments of doubt. Unlike most humans, the ST-SDB900 has an off state, so you can remedy any conflict with the press of …

“Hello? Tech support? There’s a spooky looking corporate-drone ghost-man coming out of the top of my projector.” Canon should expect to get lots of calls like this if their marketing photography (right) is anything to go by. Their vision of a businessman in the next decade appears to be an alien from Spielberg’s A.I. Such naive future-gazing is easily forgiven …