Technology

Spotlight: Starter for 6 - Popcorn Horror

Starter for 6 is an enterprise training programme run by Cultural Enterprise Office

13 Dec 2011

What's your name? Felix Gilfedder Name of business? Popcorn Horror Tell us more Popcorn Horror mobile phone app is a bite sized horror cinema experience in the palm of your hand. The ever mutating weekly content is user generated and includes…

Interview: Richie Hawtin - Plastikman Live 1.5 tour 2011

Full transcript of interview with minimal techno producer and DJ

8 Nov 2011

Live music concert seems inadequate term to describe your current live show. What exactly is this thing you do now? Well live music exists somewhere between music, theatre and circus right? You're there to entertain and grab the people. I think what…

Sounds of Fringe - Stream and record audio from the Edinburgh Festival

Soundcloud-based app for iPhone and Android documents 2011 Fringe

3 Aug 2011

New collaborative project, Sounds of Fringe allows anyone to post or stream audio from anywhere in the capital throughout the Festival, the fruits of which will be tagged and appear on an online map. Like all Soundcloud files, you can add your own…

Drum machine fan Moby

Music Gossip

19 Jul 2011

Moby used old drum machines throughout his new album because of his "weird" love of old technology. The 'Play' hitmaker doesn't think many people are as obsessed with the electronic instrument as he is, but he is fascinated by old models and loves to…

Robots Live! brings Robot Wars and a robotic football squad to Edinburgh

Robot Wars and football-playing robots at the National Museum of Flight

14 Jun 2011

It’s difficult to talk about the appeal of robots. How do you talk about the appeal of something as universally loved. What’s not to love about robots? Since technology first enabled humans to build machines that could to programmed to perform…

The best free and cheap things to do in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Visit a library, go for a walk, bake a cake or see some cheap theatre

21 Jan 2011

Beat the January blues with these guaranteed pick-me-ups, suggested by our writers and some friends of The List. They’re all free, or cost just a few quid, so you’ll come out of winter with your bank balance intact and a smile on your face

Robert Burns app features poems, biography and a Burns Supper guide

iPhone app to launch Robert Burns Birthplace Museum opening

21 Jan 2011

The famous and most loved Scots poet has a free iPhone app launched by the Scottish Government which includes his complete works with over 550 poems and love songs. Burns is renowned for being Scotland's greatest cultural icon and is celebrated…

Susan Maushart - The Winter of Our Disconnect

Entertaining cautionary tale of media addiction from New York journalist

12 Jan 2011

(Profile) With Susan Maushart’s home strewn with laptops, Nintendos and webcams, this single mother of three teenagers decided to embark on ‘The Experiment’. Her six-month exile from technology was a controversial move as her kids were Facebook…

More 3D, tablets and Panasonic's Jungle game system all set for 2011

The technology that we can expect in the year ahead

11 Jan 2011

Rule of three There’s no denying that 3D was a game changer at the cinema in 2010, from the megahit of Avatar, to smaller kids pictures such as Despicable Me and horror films such as Saw 3D everyone seemed to want in on the act and the lucrative…

Technology's role in Scottish berry production

17 Sep 2010

The soft fruit industry in Scotland has long benefited from the appliance of science. Nicki Holmyard looks at the technology keeping Scottish berries in juicy good health.

Six essential eco-gadgets

15 Apr 2010

Spend yourself green! John-Paul Holden suggests you kit out your life with these must-have eco items

Leading lights of gaming industry set for Dundee's new NEoN festival

4 Nov 2009

Scotland has had an amazing hit rate in terms of videogames. Starting with games like Lemmings through to the absolutely colossal Grand Theft Auto (the biggest selling game in the world), and with companies like Realtime Worlds, Denki, Dynamo, Digital…

The five most important moments for digital music

7 Oct 2009

Napster starts it all In 1999 Napster became first music file-sharing service to make digital downloading a viable, and illegal, option for finding new music. The end came in 2001 after a law suit from the Record Industry Association of America…

Music In The Digital Age

Technology's impact on the artform

2 Oct 2009

To paraphrase the Creme Egg adverts, when it comes to music, how do you hear yours? Streaming over the internet? Nicking stuff from torrents on the web? A bag full of goodies from Fopp? Crates of obscure vinyl from your local specialist…

Music Websites

Where to go to find great new music

2 Oct 2009

The Hype Machine (www.hypem.com) An oldie but a goodie. Trawl blogs from around the world here, stream new bands and normally stumble across tons of fresh remixes. Set aside a long skive break, as it can get quite distracting. (Claire Sawers…

5 of the Best: eReaders

Your guide to electronic books

2 Oct 2009

Kindle 2 Expect wireless download times of less than 60 seconds a book when the second incarnation of this machine finally hits UK shores. Amazon’s dreaded DRM means no chance of sharing the 1500 possible titles it can hold though. Currently only…

The New Reality Of 3D TV

Television just got that little bit more invasive

1 Oct 2009

In the face of falling box office receipts 3D has been a godsend to the film studios. It seems any movie screened in 3D has both a longer shelf-life at the cinema and a better chance of making its money back at the multiplex. It’s still a novelty that…

Book to the Future

Considering the future of how we read

1 Oct 2009

It’s not quite meltdown yet. The good news is, some stories are projected to sell well in the coming year – the adventures of a young magician, the new Dan Brown, also some book called The Bible (sometimes bought in two parts, doubling sales potential).

How It Works: Spotify

Deconstructing the phenomenon

1 Oct 2009

Spotify is a streaming program which lets users listen to music online for free. There are currently about 3.8 million tracks available to a user base of over one million. You can ‘stream’ as many tracks as you like, and unlike the download sites which…

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned

19 Mar 2009

The first of two episodic downloads for last year’s console hit is much darker then the core game. Playing as new lead Johnny Klebitz, vice president of biker gang The Lost, it’s up to you to diffuse a violent gang war. Unlike previous episodes, there’s…

Preview 2009 - Technology

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was anything to go by, 2009 should bring many great techy things to our lives. Firefox 3 made everything easier and better as domestic broadband got cheaper and faster. The house of innovation that is Google will be hard pushed in 2009 to better…

Arts and entertainments data standard launched with Venue ID system

7 Jan 2009

Arts publisher’s collaboration opens significant opportunities for arts data exchange. The List, Scotland’s leading arts and entertainments publisher have collaborated with Remotegoat, England’s premier arts data publisher and HI-Arts, the Scottish…

Free Wi-Fi access in Edinburgh

8 Jul 2008

Edinburgh is a very easy place to access free Wi-Fi internet access. With many people currently planning their trip to the city for festival season or a holiday, we are aiming to build a comprehensive guide to the free Wi-Fi hotspots. You can see the…

Preview 2008 - Technology

4 Jan 2008

Technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that predicting the future with any accuracy is becoming increasingly tricky. As might be expected, media technology is set to become faster, more powerful, more efficient, cheaper, more portable and more…