Review: Technology Will Save Us’s super-simple DIY Thirsty Plant Kit

This is my desk plant, Ivy: (Get it? Holly and the Ivy? I'm a genius). She sits on my desk at Shiny Towers, and occasionally I remember to douse her with a bit of drinking water, some leftover tea, or even Diet Coke. Despite this flagrant mistreatment, she actually seems to be doing quite well.…

Bye bye, bank balance: Sephora now ships to the UK

If you've ever been to the States, or even read a US-based beauty blog, you'll more than likely be aware of the beauty behemoth that is Sephora (actually a French company, but most successful in America). Selling absolutely everything your makeup, skincare, nailwear and perfume wardrobes could ever need, we've been very jealous of the beauty superstore ever…

Acer Aspire Switch 10 review: this convertible laptop offers excellent value

After briefly trying the Acer Aspire Switch 10 at Acer's Edinburgh liveblogging event, we were keen to get a closer look at this super-lightweight laptop-tablet hybrid. We suspected it'd be perfect for working on the go, so we took it to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to really put it to the test. Here's our Acer Aspire…

We tried I Am Bread – a game about becoming toast – and it was awesome

The premise of I Am Bread - a PC game by the makers of the stratospherically popular Surgeon Simulator - might be our favourite ever. You play a piece of bread whose sole ambition in life is to become toast by any means possible. You can use a toaster, of course, but there are endless more creative (and funny)…

Microsoft’s working on a smart ring that matches your clothes

Owning a whole wardrobe of jewellery to match your various outfits might soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft's research arm, Microsoft Labs, is working on a range of jewellery that can sense the colour it's placed on, and turn the same shade. Called Blush, the range includes brooches and a ring. We gave the ring a…

Just how breakable is the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge screen? We asked Samsung

When we live-tweeted the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge last week at Mobile World Congress, the number one question we heard about that beautiful double-curved screen was, "But will it break?" Screen breaking hasn't been much of a problem in the last couple of generations of smartphones, thanks mostly to the advances in…