Category: Gadgets
The Amazon Fire TV Stick is Amazon’s fastest-selling device ever
Amazon's Fire TV Stick - their answer to Google Chromecast - launched in the UK today. It's been available for preorder for a while, and today Amazon announced that it's their fastest-selling UK device ever. At £35, the streaming stick plugs straight into your HDMI port and includes a remote control (unlike Chromecast), plus useful voice…
Plastic rockstars rejoice: Guitar Hero is coming back
My soul is happy but my fingers are sad to hear that there's a brand new Guitar Hero coming this year – Guitar Hero Live: Interesting acting there. It sounds like the game will be split into two parts: the classic-style Guitar Hero game, which will now have actual music videos in the background instead…
Our review of the Amazon Fire TV Stick – Amazon’s answer to Google Chromecast
The new Amazon Fire TV Stick costs £35, and is up against the likes of the £30 Google Chromecast and the £49.99 Roku Streaming Stick. Chromecast is dominating the market in the UK at the moment - so can the new Amazon Fire TV Stick compete? Well, firstly, it's pretty clear that Amazon know who their competitor…
Firebox introduces Instacube, a physical frame for your Instagram photos
There's a big market for ways to show off your digital photos in the real world (see Boomf, for example) - and Firebox have just introduced a new one to the UK: the Instacube. This wireless physical frame looks a fair bit like the Instagram logo (but not in a trademark-infringing way, we assume) and livestreams…
Apple Watch orders opened today
It's a big day for tech whether you're an Android fan or an Apple devotee: not only are the Samsung S6 and S6 Edge launching today, Apple Watch orders opened this morning as well. (And yes, we still kinda wish they'd called it the iWatch, too...) Anyway, if you've been longing for an Apple Watch…
Your next Samsung phone could be a bracelet
Patently Mobile reports that Samsung have filed for a new patent for a "wrist band computer" that can work either as a bracelet or laid flat. This could be a smartwatch, smartphone or something else, as the patent details: When the wearable device is a multimedia device for watching images or listening to music, the…
This is what it looks like when you drop a GoPro while skydiving
This week, a video emerged on YouTube taken from the memory card of a GoPro found on the ground in Sweden. Amazingly, the video shows a skydiving expedition – followed by the camera plummeting to earth after becoming detached from the diver. Here's the video, but be warned: it might make you dizzy! According to…
Giffgaff claims HTC One M9 price cheaper than competitors
Contract free mobile network giffgaff, claims it is selling HTC's latest smart phone, the HTC One M9, cheaper than any of its competitors. The new flagship phone went on sale with giffgaff last night at 10.30pm at a price point that is £10.98 lower than its main competitors, says giffgaff Costing £569 SIM-free, the phone will be dispatched…
kSafe is a smart safe that unlocks when you’ve reached your goals
If you don’t have any willpower, you could work on trying to motivate yourself, or you could buy a gadget that takes care of it for you, instead. That’s the idea behind kSafe, a smartphone-connected safe which launched on Kickstarter less than a week ago and has already smashed its $50,000 goal. To use it,…
HTC One M9 Dot View case review: 8-bit cool for the smartphone age
It's not enough to build an amazing phone these days. Specs, design and marketing will only get you so far - you need a gimmick. A show-off-in-the-pub factor. And for the HTC One M9 (reviewed here), as with the M8, it's the Dot View case. The rubberised case fits the phone perfectly, as you'd expect…
