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Woo Hoo. Sci-Fi fans rejoice, as a new piece of futuristic technology has just become a reality! Engage The Cloak According to a report on the BBC Technology site this morning, researchers at the University of Texas have successfully “cloaked” an object. Using plasmonic materials, an 18cm cylinder has been rendered invisible. Sadly, it’s not [...]

OK – We admit – a sensationalist headline, but it got your attention. Here’s the story… Who is Pollyanna Woodward? Of course, she’s one of the presenters of The Gadget Show, on Channel 5. The show is loved by many a gadget geek, including the gang here at FrequencyCast. We met Polly and the team [...]

You can’t escape the fact that Christmas is on the way. Here at FrequencyCast HQ, opinions are mixed. Is it too early to talk about Christmas, or does it help to be well-prepared when starting to think of your must-have gift ideas for the festive season? Well, we’ve released some audio just for those getting [...]

FrequencyCast Update - Gift Gadget Round-up [ 21:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re just a few hours away from releasing Show Number 69 of the FrequencyCast podcast. As requested by our listeners, we’re talking about printers and all things printing. Not the most exciting topic, but we’ve tried to add a few things that might be of interest, plus a mystery object, and a special guest. In [...]

We’re in the process of editing our pice on Apple’s new Siri speech recognition package, found on the new iPhone 4S. During the recording, Carl remembered we used to have the rather chatty “Brian The Brain” in some of our earlier shows – and the product had some rather basic speech recognition. Any product that [...]

FrequencyCast Off The Record - Brian The Brain [ 2:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As we know, times are tough and money is tight. Due to falls in advertising revenue, many radio stations in the UK are suffering, and looking for novel ways of raising funds. Today, we’ve discovered a rather unusual approach being tried by community radio station Chorley FM, in Lancashire… The radio station launched in 2006, [...]

Dear All, A reminder that today is a very important day, and a day that we all take very seriously here at FrequencyCast HQ (Apart from Carl) Today is Towel Day – As all good Hitchhikers will know, it a day where the carrying of a towel is mandatory in honour of Douglas Adams, creator [...]

Here’s an interesting, and thought-provoking video for you. This highlights the dangers of stumbling into an online world where what we see on the Internet has been filtered. The video, recorded in February 2011 by Eli Pariser, highlights that what we see on Facebook and Google has been tailored to our personal requirements, and that [...]

So, are we all getting excited about next week’s Royal Wedding? Or at least the idea of a day off, and a three day week? Fancy a cheap and collectible souvenir of April’s Royal Wedding? Well, here it is. A Limited Edition Wills and Kate Mobile Phone. In patriotic Red White and Blue, with a [...]

Angry Birds continues to be the runaway success of the iPhone gaming apps – mixing a cunning blend of physics, catapult  engineering and pig destruction, if you not tried it – you must. FrequencyCast now has a hot bird in the office, and we’ll be squeaking to him in the new show. Here’s an early [...]

Fans of OAP, Old Alan Partridge, should note that the new series of webisodes (sponsored by Fosters), is back after a short break. Episode 7 is out now at www.fostersfunny.co.uk - and as well as being required viewing for Partridge fans, is also a must-watch for anyone who’s spent time working in local radio, like our Carl [...]

Are you a fan of the game that’s taken the mobile world by storm? Angry Birds has to be the most popular, and the most addictive, mobile phone game out there, and from March 2011, you can own your own angry bird. Handy as stress toys – you can fling them at those pesky pigs, [...]

As any good hitchhiker knows, the central repository of all knowledge in the Universe, is the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, with Wikipedia coming a close second… There is, of course, the oft-forgotten H2G2 – The online encyclopedia originally created by fans of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the Douglas Adams classic. H2G2 is [...]

We’ve released one of our mid-month updates – 12 minutes of unplanned chat from Carl and Pete. In this update, we look at BBC iPlayer, Apple iTunes, Karotz, servers, Zombies and Apple TV The 12 minute FrequencyCast Update is attached to this blog entry, and is available free via iTunes or at www.frequencycast.co.uk/update.html We hope [...]

FrequencyCast Update 18 Nov 10 [ 11:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s something rather nifty… the opportunity to try on a watch and see what it looks like, in the virtual world. Watch makers Tissot have launched a virtual shop window at London’s Selfridges, where you can use augmented reality to try on one of their watches. You can even try it at home. A novel [...]

The wait is almost over – Sky 1 tonight broadcast the last-but-one episode of Lost, and the ends are finally being tied up. Here at FrequencyCast, opinions are mixed. Our Carl’s given up on Lost – he gave up around the hatch era. Pete’s still hanging in there, although he reports a headache. After 6 [...]

You have to laugh, don’t you? There’s us, banging on in Show 47 about the importance of backing up your data, and this week, we lost a vital file. The file in question was actually a transcript of the latest show, Show 50, kindly created by the team at Typing Angels. Foolishly, our Pete deleted [...]

Over the last 24 hours, Google has completed a major rollout of new Google Maps Street View data. When the service launched in 2009, only roads in major cities were covered, but in today’s update, it seems that around 95 per cent of homes across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are now covered in high [...]

We’re after some listener help. We’re planning a feature on MP3 Players in an upcoming FrequencyCast show, and we’ve put together a short survey to get some opinions and stats. Got two minutes to answer some MP3 player questions? Fill in the survey at www.frequencycast.co.uk/limesurvey/index.php?sid=61754 Thanks in advance!

Trekkies of the world are about to unite as the Massive Multiplayer game “Star Trek Online” is about to go live. The game officially launches on Tuesday the 2nd of February, but many Trek fans have been able to get early access to the online Trek Universe through a successful public beta and a “headsup” [...]