http://www.lgblog.co.uk A blog from LG talking about Design, Innovation, Technology and Style Thu, 15 May 2008 11:14:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just learnt from IndyBlogs' Shopping Bag that the wonderful Robert Ryan (who I occasionally confuse with the equally talented with scissors Peter Callesen) is planning to open a shop here in London! This is great news for me as it'll be in my neck of the woods - near ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/15/dont-run-with-scissors-work-with-them/ Today sees the start of the 61st Cannes Festival and for the second year running LG are partners for the festival, this year bringing all the highlights and best clips to you via the web on our special Scarlet monitor inspired viewer, in partnership with Canal+. Sadly the service is French ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/14/lg-brings-cannes-to-you/ Nathalie from the LG France blog just emailed me this awe/pain-inspiring video: Guys back flip into jeans Which has been watched an incredible 2,483,947 times since it was added to YouTube on May 5th. Is it a clever advert or PR stunt or just some guys with too much time and/or an ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/13/dressing-as-a-way-of-life/ Yesterday I came across this terrifying 'fooz'ball table from AirWorks Inflatables: Terrifying for me because I have enough trouble playing on a standard table but also because I can imagine the havoc created were we to actually get one in our office! Fortunately there is only one of these giant tables ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/13/its-not-the-size-that-matters/ ~Paracelsus I've just been emailed a link to this wonderfully ingenious clock by Dutch designer Christiaan Postma. He explains "The starting point with this project was a personal study about form & time. I put together more than 150 individual clockworks and made them work together to become one clock. I ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/09/198/ The past few weeks have been a real test of my willpower - first, Di at Designers' Block introduced me to Michael Michaud's amazing nature inspired jewelry. Water Lilies brooch, inspired by the painting of the same name by Claude Monet. Then Register Hardware brought the Mobile Watch - complete with camera, ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/09/resisting-temptation/ Here's a bit of an LG Blog exclusive - Jeremy Newing, LG Mobile's UK Marketing Manager, talking about the Secret and his ideas for the future of LG Mobile, at the bloggers' event we held to launch the LG Secret last week: We also managed to collar John ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/05/06/lg-secret-qa/ Last Friday we had the pleasure of some of the UK's top tech and style bloggers at an exclusive event at London's May Fair Hotel to have a look at the new LG Secret (KF750). A good crowd turned up, and as well as meeting us in the flesh, they ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/04/28/getting-hands-on-with-the-lg-secret/ Today in London, we revealed the name of the third in the LG Black Label line of phones - the LG Secret. The Secret (KF750) is a slender & stylish handset with a slew of enriched technological features, including a 5MP ISO 800 camera, a 120fps QVGA video camera and ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/04/24/announcing-the-lg-secret/ Over at TechDigest comes this nice laptop pillow, to not only stop your laptop digging into your legs but help keeping it cooler and not burning your legs. TechDigest raves about the log one (pictured below) which I like a lot for its colour and playfulness. However it's not ... http://www.lgblog.co.uk/2008/04/22/pillows-not-just-for-your-head/