US store Best Buy comes to Britain bringing blue shirts and cheap gadgets..

Big US electronics retailers Best Buy are moving over to the UK and opening stores in Essex and Croydon. Majoring on the customer service side of electronics retail, Best Buy are also known for their blue shirted geek squads who provide repair and servicing but also pre-sale consultations suggesting what product would work best according…

Toilet plunger inspires emergency $3 wound healer

Inspired by a toliet plunger, a US medical student has come up with a cheap, simple gadget that cleans wounds and could save many lives in diaster areas. MIT student Danielle Zurovcik was walking down a bathroom goods aisle in Kmart when she saw the plunger and noticed its connection to her medical work. How…

Daily Mail v Facebook tussle continues, the Mail on why Facebook is a toxic drug

You don't go to the Daily Mail's Femail section for insightful comment about web trends and social networking. No, you usually go there because there's a headline saying that Facebook is like mephedrone combined with lesbians and destroying Britain/young lives/society - you know. Then you read the article, boggle for a little bit and may…

Digg vs Reddit vs Stumbleupon vs Buzzfeed vs I-A-B vs Google News

Content. It's the lifeblood of the Internet. It's what we all come here for usually. That and chatting to our chums. There are more content aggregrators on the web than there are pictures of girls in various states of undress. That's probably not true, we're emphasising for effect. There are a lot though. But are…

Gamers slaver as Zotac releases "most powerful graphics card in the world"

Zotac have released a new graphics card based on next-generation NVIDIA fermi architecture. The new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 graphics cards promise to be the world's most powerful graphics cards capable of delivering a phenomenal gaming experience and unmatched processing power. Features include new Microsoft DirectX 11, 32x anti-aliasing, NVIDIA 3D…

Hot Roller Wheels, oddly-shaped roller skates give you a new way to fall over

Yes, after last week's look at one weird form of wheel-based transport the Magic One Wheel, here's another one: Hot Roller wheels. Billed as the progeny of roller skates and skateboards, these hoops with wheels on the bottom and foot plates on the inside require you to make that wiggly motion that skateboarders do. To…