Attention home-cinema enthusiasts: Sony’s new range of Blu-ray players is on the horizon, and the forecast is 3D with a chance of iPhone apps. The S380 (pictured above), S480, S580, E280, E380, E880 and E780W Blu-ray players turn your iPhone or Android smart phone into a remote control as you watch 3D Blu-ray movies such …

It’s the time for Christmas miracles, and we do love a bit of technology indistinguishable from magic. That’s what we thought when we clapped our eyes on Word Lens, an augmented reality-style translation app for the Apple iPhone. The app is similar to the text-recognition and translation features of the already pretty miraculous Google Goggles. As well as translating text …

Google Maps 5.0 for Android is here. The graphics are now vector-based, which means files are smaller so maps load faster, and they’re now packed with data, including 3D buildings. You can even find your way when you don’t have an Internet connection. This latest version of Google Maps now runs on vector-based graphics. You know when you swipe across …

Good news for data-gobblers: 3 has brought back unlimited data to its pricing deals. Smart-phone users on the 3G-only mobile network can opt for the heavyweight One Plan to eat up all the Internet, video and apps data they can stuff into their pockets. The One Plan launched in July and offers 2,000 minutes of calls to any network, 5,000 …

Eye-melting hack’n’slash game Infinity Blade is the fastest-grossing app ever to hit the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Epic Games’ fantasy swordplay earned well over £1m in its first four days on sale. Appmodo took the 271,424 users registered in Apple’s Game Center leaderboard after four days and multiplied that by the cost of the game, $5.99 (£3.49 in the …

Apple has revealed that Angry Birds was one of the top-grossing apps of the year in the iTunes Store. The annual iTunes Rewind charts look back at who’s been buying what, as Doctor Who and The Inbetweeners rub shoulders with Mad Men, Eminem and Lady Gaga. The festive Angry Birds Christmas edition means a turkey won’t be the only bird livening …

Google has given us a taste of Honeycomb, an upcoming version of Android. Hot on the heels of the new Google Nexus S phone, which runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Honeycomb was revealed on a prototype Motorola tablet. Gingerbread isn’t even out yet, but Google is already working on “an early version” of Honeycomb. The big G’s Android kingpin, Andy Rubin, showed …

Good news, square-eyes: TiVo is back in Blighty today. Virgin Media is launching its TiVo-powered set-top box today, allowing your telly to access an app store and record things it thinks you’ll like. Magic powers, basically. The TiVo set-top box includes a whopping 1TB hard drive, which means you’ll be able to store huge amounts of telly, even in high …

Good news everybody! Virgin Media has finally announced details of its first TiVo-powered device. The set-top box will access the Web and show you 3D, high-definition and on-demand content, as well as learning what you like and recommending. The box comes with a thoroughly respectable terabyte of storage, housing up to 500 hours of content. A built-in internal modem connects …

Two thousand zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I’m gonna party like I have a last-generation games console built into my frickin’ television… as Prince is probably singing to himself today while he reads Crave. The new Bravia KDL-22PX300 LCD television is every bit as bonkers as His Purpleness himself, as it has a PlayStation 2 …