If you have lots of empty bottles around, you’ll definitely love the idea of converting them into usable lamps for your work desk or home. I love this idea too as I’ve got quite a number of empty red wine bottles.

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No one can deny the fact that Apple is doing impressively well with its App Store and iTunes. ITunes certainly revolutionized the music industry, despite the fact that many in the music industry didn’t want to change. A new report has been published by research firm Asymco looking specifically at how much money iTunes users are spending.

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Google has announced that it’ll be changing the way it does cloud storage across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+. Instead of each service having it’s own allotted amount of space. All three will be joined together and will share a pool of 15GB of cloud storage space, allowing Google Drive users to essentially have more free space than the previous 5GB that was originally offered.

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It would appear that some very skilled tricksters have taken to the web with a video advertisement amalgamation of images and flashing lights that are making even the best spotters look twice: is that the real PlayStation 4? Alas- it is not to be. Sony has confirmed that the video spot you’re about to see was not generated by them or their PR agency – that’s not to say that the console isn’t going to be very, very similar, of course.

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Bitcoin, the online currency that looks to revolutionize how we look at money in an online environment, is rising in popularity. However, in order to create Bitcoins, you have to mine them first, meaning that you give up a certain amount of computational power in order to process the creation of Bitcoins (similar to Folding@Home). In fact, Bitcoin mining is such a huge thing right now, that the entire mining network is faster than most of the world’s fastest supercomputers combined.

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It's the online piracy mystery of the moment. Did the hacker group known as AntiSec really manage to find a way to not only get into the laptop of an FBI agent but also did the group take 12 million Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) numbers for Apple iOS products from that notebook?

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Samsung has announced global Galaxy S III sales of over 20,000,000 units in just 100 days, making it the company’s fastest-selling smartphone so far. The Android star has been maintaining a steady pace, too, with demand showing no signs of slowing according to Samsung: the 10m sale mark was hit after 50 days, which suggests growth is steady.

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The gang over at DARPA likes to work on some really wild projects from time to time. The part that impresses me the most about some of the wild projects DARPA works on or funds is that the researchers actually get many of them to work. One of the things that DARPA has been pushing hard on is robotics in an attempt to design robots for the military and other applications.

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Apple has been toying around with its Apple TV device for several years now. The company still calls the device a hobby, but rumors are circulating that an actual Apple TV set would be coming to market along with a revamped set-top box. It’s been a while now since we heard any new rumors on an Apple HDTV coming to market.

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GooPhone, the Chinese company behind an Android phone designed to resemble leaked iPhone 5 parts, is now planning to sue Apple if the finalized device actually ends up looking like their phone.

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