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Are App Toyz THE toy for Christmas 2011? What does the media think?

Monday, October 24th, 2011

 

  Str-app yourself in for the new awesome app toyz range, the must have toys this Christmas available at www.iwantoneofthose.com

 The App Blaster, The App Wheel, The App Copter and The App Racer follow on from the mobile phone app phenomenon we have seen in recent years. The App Toyz provide an interactive gaming experience that brings FREE apps to life.

 

 So we know our opinion – they are truly awesome! But what does the press say…?


 

The App blaster

The App blaster is the world’s first interactive gun for gaming! This is a gun which houses the iPod/iPhone in your viewfinder, giving you the best in viewing and gaming experience. Using the camera on your device you can turn your bedroom, lounge, office or local park into a frontline battlefield protecting your surroundings of oncoming aliens, just simply shoot the aliens using the gun’s two triggers and tilt the gun back to reload. Keep a sharp look out, they could be behind you!

The App Wheel 

You can use the App Wheel along with any driving app to deliver the most realistic driving experience EVER! Ever thought you were a racing driver? Prove your skills in any racing game currently on iTunes. Plug the phone into the AppWheel and feel as if you were at the wheel. Don’t forget to indicate.

 The AppCopter 

The AppCopter – a gyro stabilised 3 channel helicopter controlled using your iPhone or iPod Touch. Together with a unique ergonomic peripheral you will be able to turn this into the most intuitive remote control ever!

 The AppRacer

App-tastic racing…The AppRacer is an ‘off road buggy’ style car that works together with the unique ergonomic peripheral (as used with the AppCopter) and turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into an awesome remote control car.

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Apps for the AppToyz can be downloaded free from an iPhone or and iPod Touch app store today. The interactive toys are individually priced, the App Blaster is priced at £19.99, The App Wheel is £9.99, the App Copter is £59.99 and the App Racer is £54.99.

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Windows 7 – Will It Make My Christmas?

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

As you may have previously read, my battle with my laptop running Windows Vista is a bloody and long one, and has led to several embarrassing situations (the less said about the times I told friends I’d be at their house in two minutes, clicked ‘Shut Down’ and been half an hour late, the better). I can really feel it culminating, and the urge to splurge and get myself a technology-related early Christmas present is almost impossible to ignore. My plan to save up for a Mac may have beaten into second place, though…

According to The Guardian, the new Windows OS, Windows 7 (another storming Ronseal title, much better than Vista) works faster than the OS it replaces on most computers. This, for me, is reason enough to upgrade. The basic Home Edition retails at £79.99, while Apple Macs start at around £799. That’s ten times the expense. Is it worth me saving up for a solution to a problem that could be solved very quickly and with much less of an impact on my wallet? True, it wouldn’t solve everything (my cheap-as-chips laptop must shoulder some of the blame), but it’s a start, isn’t it?

The only thing really standing in my way is the fact that I might be forced to have a Windows Party and partake in the kind of forced jollity displayed in the publicity campaign mounted by Microsoft in the run-up to its release. They come across as much like a social skills seminar as they do a Windows tutorial. Yuck.

So what is it to be? Expense, scrimping and saving, or throw my own Windows Party?

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Throwing Apples Through Windows

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Charlie Brooker, one of IWOOT’s favourite writers, has highlighted a particularly thorny issue in his latest piece for The Guardian – that of the seemingly eternal dichotomy between Apple and Windows operating systems. Eloquently and with not a little vitriol, Brooker lambastes both sides. Apple users, he argues, are smug, while Windows users are doomed to a life spent waiting for applications to open.

For me, this is an issue that is governed by something else. No matter the incredible ease of the Mac OS, I can’t afford one. Not by choice, but by force I have to side with Windows and their terrifyingly slow Vista OS. My last laptop cost me £249 and, though I thoroughly hate the thing, I would be lost without it. All my work, my photos, my iTunes library (my one Apple luxury) and near-enough anything that’s important is on there – it just takes me a couple of hours to access it. No joke – I was sitting in a North London café on Saturday afternoon (sipping a particularly rich Americano, if you’re interested) and making use of their free wi-fi, and my wretched little box took 11 whole minutes to get used to its surroundings, get comfy, pull itself together and be ready to connect. The poor waitress with the network key was forced to be very patient. I suspect she wanted to pour my particularly rich Americano all over its stupid keys.

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I agree with Brooker when he says that these Apple acolytes are so very obsessed with spreading the good word, and I know that I can’t join them unless I seriously save up for it. I too feel a little pang of incandescent rage when I see someone using a Mac Book or an iPhone – not because I detest the way in which their owners seem to luxuriate in the glow of being correct (maybe a little…), but because I want to be one of them.

JimboWoot even let me touch his iPhone the other day. It was pretty magical. It’s not that I needed converting, but I know I can’t spend my life resisting the urge to despatch strong coffee all over my Vista screen in the same way you would a cuckolding partner. Might be time to open a savings account…

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James May's Lego House

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Top Gear’s James May is making every child’s dream a reality and actually building a house out of Lego. An actual, full sized, complete with bathroom facilities, honest to goodness house. I spent many an afternoon sat in the middle of my bedroom, surrounded by building blocks, trying to scrape together enough of the same colour to build a space ship (not a futuristic spaceship, one of the NASA ones). But alas, I never had enough white or round edges to do the job properly so I’d just end up making a multi-coloured batmobile instead. Not that Batman would ever have been seen dead in it.

The project was part of James May’s BBC2 series “James May’s Toy Stories” and, staying true to the spirit of the task, he made 600 free tickets available to anyone who fancied popping along to build a section – he even suggested they brought their unwanted Lego.

May said he came up with the idea for the project over a beer with friends. “Your imagination is always bigger than your stockpile when you’re a kid,” he said. “Up until now, the largest thing I’ve ever built with Lego was probably a plane or a battleship, because that was all I could build with the amount I had.”

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IWOOT Nominated for Stuff Magazine's Retailer of the Year Award.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

First of all we’d like to thank the academy, our mums – without whom none of this would have been possible. . . oh wait. We haven’t actually won anything yet. But with your help we could.

We need all of you lovely people to click on the link below and proclaim your undying love for IWOOT. Well, not quite – but voting for us to win the award would be a lovely gesture.

Click here to vote.  Sorry IWOOT fans, voting now closed!

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Prince Charles is all about the Wattson.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

According to the Daily Mail the Prince of Wales is really enjoying the Wattson Energy Monitor, and why shouldn’t he? It’s a great little device, it saves you money and more importantly lets you know just how much energy you’re wasting by insisting on leaving the TV on all day (trust me – your cat is not THAT lonely).

“Prince Charles has installed ‘name and shame’ energy monitors in Clarence House to encourage staff to reduce consumption. . . Six of the recyclable Wattson devices have been installed including one in the reception area. . . and one each in both the prince’s main office and his private one.

If only more people with his kind of money and the means to make a difference actually cared about the planet.

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