BBC reveals Connected Red Button The venerable Red Button service is getting some internet-connected smarts The BBC’s Red Button has been serving up extra features to TV viewers for over a decade – now it’s getting some new tricks up its sleeve with the launch of a newConnected Red Buttonproject. The aim is to add connected TV features to broadcast television – so you’ll be able to dial up the previous episode of a programme you’re watching on iPlayer, or send the ingredients list for a recipe on a cookery show to your iPad....

BBC Sport app lands on iOS Fanatical about sports? You’ll want to cheek out the Beeb’s latest app then The Beeb has announced that its official BBC Sports app has hit the App Store, ready for consumption by sports fanatics across the county. Featuring customisable menus to let you see the sports that matter most to you, the BBC Sports app delivers news, live scores, stats and commentary to your iDevice, ensuring that you’ll never miss a thing again....

BBC Sport App now live on Virgin Tivo boxes for F1 Formula 1, Euro 2012, Wimbledon, and the Olympics will soon be available too on most connected TVs The BBC has just released its BBC Sport App on Virgin Tivo boxes so that you can enjoy everything its Formula 1 coverage has to offer in interactive detail. The launch is to be rolled out to smart TVs later in the year....

BeetBox combines vegetables and a Raspberry Pi to make sweet music Grammar Nazis, put down your pitchforks – that’s no spelling mistake in the title. This ludicrous contraption called the BeetBox certainly doesn’t need to exist, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want one gracing our desks. The crazy setup consists of beets held in a wooden cabinet attached to aRaspberry Pi– a homemade script detects when each vegetable is hit, blasting a drum sample out of an in-built speaker....

Ben Whishaw on 007’s gadgets and channelling Mark Zuckerberg for the role of Q in Skyfall With Skyfall brimful of tech, we talk to 007’s IT guru about James Bond’s arsenal of explosive gadgetry Q (that’s short for Quartermaster, FYI) returns to Bond in Skyfall. This time around he’s played by British up-and-comer Ben Whishaw, who gives us the lowdown on a Bond gadget icon… Q is a computer genius...

Best iPad apps this week Load your most rectangular bit of Apple kit with some of these fresh apps we’ve picked from the App Store garden Game Your Video69p Anyone versed in the art of meticulous video editing look away now. Because for less than a pound, Game Your Video will add effects like slow motion, split screen and comedy voices to your footage with a few swipes of your iPad’s screen....

Black Samsung Galaxy S3 revealed US T-Mobile site shows off spinning sable Sammy S3 The Samsung Galaxy S3 is available in blue, white and red variants – but a black version of the phone has been conspicuous by its absence from the lineup. That looks set to change, though – the UST-Mobilesite has shown off what looks to be a black Galaxy S3 in a looping animation. While that’s good news for US Galaxy S3 fans who’ve been holding out for a black version of the phone, what about the rest of the world?...