New iPad owners, look away now: iSperm is here

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes iSperm, an “Innovative boar sperm analyser” for your iPad mini. “With iSperm, sperm analysis is easier than ever,” manufacturers chirpily claim. The system uses a microscope to enlarge the contents of the porcine...

Fist bump your way to data paradise, with Apple

Ah the fist bump: beloved of ageing hip hop fans, “cool” geography teachers and Barack Obama. And now, it appears, of Apple too. The tech giant has filed a new patent for “gesture based information exchange between devices in proximity”, i.e. ways to transfer...