Google Wallet launched in the US today, sounds like the future has finally arrived. It promises contactless payments and the end to bulky wallets all in one universal device. More precisely Google Nexus S smartphone, with it’s NFC chip as that device. The concept is brilliant, but like all adoptions of technology it’ll take time for it to be cast out as standard payment option. It will require everyone to upgrade to a NFC chipped [...]

The iNQ Cloud Touch isn’t a phone I’d ever heard of before I received one to review. In fact, I’d never heard of iNQ at all. This isn’t saying much, as being a bit of an Apple fangirl I tend to ignore most other phone brands. The Cloud Touch is a budget Android smartphone, with a choice of casing colours: red, white and black. The phone is very heavily linked to your Facebook account – [...]

Zite dubs itself the personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter as you use it. Zite gives you personalized news, articles, blogs, videos and other content from a variety of both mainstream and niche publications and sites. Zite can personalize by syncing with your Twitter or Google Reader account or on its own. The interface looks nice enough and the whole concept seems like a combination of stumble [...]

3M have invested a lot in pioneering research and are really trying to push things forward by introducing a new flexible micro pattern product which hopes to shape the future. (Quite literally!) It will be sold as a product to existing manufacturers and hopes to be the standard for malleable touchscreen technology. The possible uses of the “flexible transparent conductor” could be a fully functional touchscreen wrist strap, e-publications or gaming devices as shown in [...]

Chester Based iphone and ipad developer/trainer Dave Verwer has just set up a new weekly newsletter for fellow iOS developers who need a weekly burst of inspiration and iOS dev love. Issue 1 about simulating poor network conditions has just been mailed out – so get on it quick! All you have to do is just sign up on the iOS Dev Weekly site Dave is a seasoned veteran and runs the iOS dev company [...]

There’s tons of cases on the market, but we thought we’d highlight a selection of the slightly odd, fun and silly ones some of which you probably wouldn’t buy. Vintage 80′s Gameboy cases Little Black Book Leica M9 Camera Skin with Transparent Case Cassette Case Back Cover Totoro iPhone Case McLovin iPhone case 18k Gold case with 200 Diamonds Worth ($100,000) Rosewood Wood Case & Stand Retro Calculator Case Chocolate Bar Silicone case

Some of the best apps are those that integrate with other apps to make something amazing. Goodfoot is one such iPhone app. Goodfoot takes information from Gowalla, the popular location app that award users pins and badges for checking in at various places, and uses the amount of Gowalla check-ins at local spots (pubs, restaurants, shops etc) to create lists of popular venues near you. It gives you three lists: places within walking or biking [...]

We’re all about devices that can make communication that little bit easier here at MOFU, so we were delighted to receive the new HTC Cha Cha to test and review. The HTC Cha Cha is aimed squarely at 14-21 market, it currently has an average UK contract price of £20 per month, and a sim free cost of £200. It’s been dubbed one of 2 (non-facebook) facebook phones alongside the HTC Salsa! In fact it’s [...]

Appcelerator Titanium makes cross-platform native application development easy. As a free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP. It’s also vastly under documented, so the good guys over at Testled have kindly decided to run us through a building a simple titanium app. Let’s begin!

When Sheffield based Industrial Designer Andrew Bond was looking for a stand for his iphone 4, he struggled to find one that suited his needs – so he decided to design one himself! This little iphone 4 stand is perfectly formed from a thin strip of thermoplastic elastomer to keep it sleek and pocket size. It even has a hole to hook it onto a keychain. Perfect for the consummate traveller who likes to watch [...]