Interviews

INTERVIEW: Just how big is Movember?

Back in the southern-hemisphere summer of 2003, a gang of Antipodean gents came up with the idea of growing a moustache for a month. Six years on and nearly a quarter of a million men around the globe are cultivating face fur on their upper lips all in the name of charity...

The making of the Toshiba Space Chair

With the creeping dawn of a new year comes both a new media campaign and ethos for the "leaders in innovation" Toshiba. Today sees the launch of the Space Chair advertisement in the UK - and soon in France and Germany - which will span TV, online and in-store media. We...

Grooming tips for your moustache

You can't just grow hair on your top tip and think that's all there is to it, grooming your moustache, or mustache for our American readers, takes time and consideration.

We sat down with Dr. Aaron Perlut, the chairman of the American Mustache Institute to find...

Beatles live performance coming to venue near you

That's a headline you could read in the not too distant future thanks to a new technology that is hoping to change the way we listen to music forever.

The concept, created by Zenph Studios and called "Re-Performance", works not by re-mastering music in the traditional...

Sony design and the shape of things to come

Takuya Kawagoi has been a Sony man for nearly 20 years now. Having spent all his time based in Japan as one of the graphic designers at the heart of the company image, he has now been appointed head of Sony Design Centre Europe. We stopped in for a chat to see how life...

Sony PS3 back catalogue unlikely to go 3D

Sony's ability to retrospectively turn all games on the PS3 into 3D is unlikely to become a reality according to the President of the S-3D Gaming Alliance.

"We aren't sure how the rumour started, but it is unlikely to be possible for Sony to make all games...

2D to 3D: Classic masterpieces to get 3D makeover

"This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are seeing a massive shift right now to 3D".

Words from a rather excited Steve Glum, head of branding and distribution at Passmorelab in San Diego, the world's largest 3D content provider.

With the world...

OpenStreetMap - Crowd sourced cartography set to re-map the world

The Ordnance Survey is paid for by the tax payer - serveral times over as it goes. So, why is it that we foot a further fee to Great Britain's national mapping agency every time we buy a satnav or even an A-Z?

If you purchase a TomTom, approximately 20-30% of...

Toshiba talks Blu-ray

It's been a year and a half since the HD optical disc format war ended and, despite Toshiba's promise of "no plans to make Blu-ray players", the company finally admitted defeat this morning and announced their application to join the Blu-ray Association. Pocket-lint spoke...

Moonwalk One: documenting the moon landing

"Not many people know this, but the reason the Apollo 11 film footage is so ghostly is because of technical issues in getting the live footage back from the moon".

Theo Kamecke was asked to create a documentary that captured the Apollo 11 moon mission that...

Photo tips from the battlefield

Ben Lowy was a finalist in last year’s Photography.Book.Now competition for his work Iraq Perspectives. He now talks to Pocket-lint on his work in the field and the motivation behind it.

Why did you decide to take on projects taking photography in war zones?

How to shoot urban landscapes

Jon Smith, a finalist in last year’s Photography.Book.Now with his book “The Bridge Project” talks to Pocket-lint about his career taking photography in urban areas and shares some tips on how to take photos at night.

What’s your approach to urban photography...

How do you capture that perfect photograph?

Knowing what to take can be harder than taking the picture with today's latest feature-filled digital cameras, so we sat down with the current grand prize winner of the Photography.Book.Now competition, Beth Dow, to find out what she does when she's thinking about taking...

Behind the scenes at the Nokia Test Centre

In a quiet business park in Farnborough, engineer Kevin Smith goes to work everyday with one objective: to break stuff.

"It we fail to break it, we've failed in our task", says the man whose job it is to break Nokia phones for a living.

Smith's...

LOVEFiLM: Blu-ray seeing good uptake in UK

LOVEFiLM, the UK's largest online rental service, has told Pocket-lint that Blu-ray is proving to be a success despite some parties suggesting that downloads will supersede the format before it gets going.

"We are amongst the sharp edge of the UK entertainment...

RIM: Vodafone rejected first BlackBerry Storm

RIM's CEO Mike Lazaridis has admitted that the company's first attempt at making the BlackBerry Storm was rejected by Vodafone for not being cutting edge enough.

"I thought that when we put both 3G Network technologies, Quadband Edge, GPS and a powerful CPU...

Olympus promise "smaller more feature packed" cameras in 2009

Olympus has said that it will reinvent the digital camera next year, promising smaller more advance models that will be "completely different" to the current crop available on the market today.

"Do you really believe bulky digital cameras will be the camera...

Samsung: "Blu-ray has 5 years left"

Samsung has said that it sees the Blu-ray format only lasting a further 5 years before it is replaced by another format or technology.

"I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10", Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics...

INTERVIEW: The future of DAB radio

With 27% of adults living in a DAB household and now over 7.3 million DAB radios in circulation what is the future for DAB radio in the UK, when are we likely to see a switch off of the analogue signal, and with multiple formats appearing on the horizon has the UK jumped...

Toshiba outlines future after HD DVD

Toshiba announced Tuesday morning that it is calling time on HD DVD in the format war against Sony's Blu-ray, but why? Pocket-lint sat down with Olivier VanWynendaele - deputy general manager, HD DVD to find out more.

"To be very honest we have been reviewing...

Sony Ericsson look to software in race to become No.1

With the mobile phone market heating up and traditional manufacturers worried what effect the introduction of Apple's iPhone will have on the market, Sony Ericsson along with others is launching a barrage of new handsets hoping to offer a plethora of choices to any would-be...

Canon outlines the future of the DSLR

Shortly before the unveiling of Canon's Spring lineup of products, we sat down for a chat with Alessandro Stanzani, country director for the UK and Ireland, Canon Consumer Imaging, to discuss Canon's role in the digital photography market and the company's plan for the future.

Although...

THE BIG INTERVIEW: Russ Swift

Russ Swift goes through a set of tyres every 3 miles because, in the stunt-driving business, rubber and money get burned together.

Swift’s party piece – and something he’s been doing for decades and with a 100% success rate – is getting a car up on two wheels...

Father of the World Wide Web to start a new science to study the internet

The father of the World Wide Web has announced an ambitious project to study the Internet, its uses, and the way it’s growing.

The research will be collaborative at MIT and the University of Southampton, and is called the Web Science Research Initiative to...

Yahoo see communities and video key to future success

"Community and Convergence is where we see the big focus in the years to come", John Marcom Jr, Yahoo's senior vice president of International Operations, responsible for overseeing Yahoo!'s international business operations outside the US told Pocket-lint.co.uk as he outlined...