Exclusive – Specialized Turbo unveiled as the world’s fastest electric bike We’ve just been on a 30mph electric bicycle. It’s the future of transport. Most electric bikes are slow, heavy and look like something your gran would ride, but Specialized has just given us an exclusive blast around Valencia on its top-secret Turbo, a new high-performance ebike capable of nearly 30mph. Packing a 250W high-torque brushless motor in the rear hub and a 36V, 324Wh li-ion battery, the Turbo is so fast Specialized has teamed up with the British Cycling Association to lobby for an increase in the UK’s archaic 15mph limit on unlicensed powered transport....

Explay Crystal phone has a transparent colour display This see-through phone is much like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness – but this time it has colour The Explay Crystal looks really cool, offering a transparent screen much like theSony Ericsson Xperia Pureness– but with the addition of a colour display. But before you start getting excited about augmented reality, note that the Explay Crystal is less smartphone and more dumbphone by modern standards – that transparent screen is oh so very pretty, though....

Facebook App Center launches for iOS and Android The social network giant dips its toes into the app store pool by giving you the lowdown on what your friends are playing instead of talking to you Facebook has announced that that itspreviously announced App Centeris now live for certain users in the US, ready for them to peruse a selection of over 600 apps and games that the social network behemoth believes are worth feeding to their trusty iOS or Android devices....

Facebook could buy Opera to create its own web browser A dedicated Facebook browser? Next thing you know, the social media giant will be wanting its own phone. Oh wait… Hot on the heels of a rumouredFacebook Phonecomes speculation that Facebook will be buying the Opera web browser. According toPocket Lint‘s source, the social media giant is planning to take on Google, Apple and Mozilla in the browser arena with Opera (and hopefully not littering it with Mafia Wars pop-ups and intrusive notifications)....

Facebook gets hi-res photo viewer and new Acquaintances tool The code junkies deep in the bowels of the social network giant’s lab have been busy tinkering away again Facebook has announced a few improvements in its photo viewer and Acquaintances tool, and while not as big as the introduction ofFacebook Timeline, they should still be welcome changes for the narcissistic socialite masses. First up is the new photo viewer, which will now automatically display pictures in the highest resolution possible as well as offering full-screen viewing for all pictures....

FaceTime over 3G coming to iOS 6 You could soon be ditching Wi-Fi for face to face iCalls, at the expense of your data allowance The latest version of iOS 5.1.1 contains a warning which suggests that 3G FaceTime support will be included in iOS 6,Apple Insiderreports. The warning in question states that disabling 3G may end FaceTime, implying that Appleites will soon be able to free themselves from the shackles of Wi-Fi FaceTime calls (sans jailbreak) once and for all....

Feeling peckish? Why not munch on this edible lamp? You know that old saying - I’m so hungry I could eat a lamp? Well.. wait, no, that’s not right… We have a list here at Stuff Towers which contains all the things that we’ve come across over the years that don’t need to exist, and this edible table lamp is certainly one of them. Forged from biodegradable plastic made from an agar and vegetable glycerin mix (yummy), the LED lamp’s four colours lend it different flavours with which to tantalise adventurous taste buds – Orange, cherry, apple and blueberry are all present and accounted for....