Italian developer Vittorio Cuculo has managed to create a lamp which changes colour according to your mood when it's linked up to facial recognition software on his computer. Described as a ‘Natural Interaction System’, it works via a webcam and OpenCV image processing, which both work to track certain features such as eyebrows, lips, eyes…

We’ve known for a while now that Microsoft was gearing up to launch a wearable device, but the watch we were expecting might not be a watch at all. Instead of competing with Google and (we expect) Apple on that front, well-connected blogger Paul Thurrot’s sources say that Microsoft’s wearable will be a fitness-tracking wristband.…

It seems like everyone from Apple to our grans are developing smartwatches at the moment, so whether you're a tech giant or a startup, your wearable needs to either bring something to the table that no one else has or do it better than anything else already on the market. FiDELYS is a pretty decent-looking…

We’ve said it before: big mobile phones are big. And they’re only set to get bigger if we Brits have anything to say about it. New research shows we can’t get enough of wide set devices and think phablets are… er, fab. According to tracking company Context, phones bigger than 4.9 inches made up 23%…

So much scientific research, especially when it comes to sex hormones, seems to boil down to one essential question: clever or creepy? And, as with so much scientific research, this proposed experiment could well be both. Thomas David Kehoe from Casa Futura Technologies has designed an experiment that will involve giving young women a scrunchie…

Yesterday, Google announced that it has bought Songza. Never heard of it? Us neither – until now, it’s been a relatively small venture, so we decided to put together a Q&A to straighten out the deal … What is Songza? It’s an app that's been around for three years, and is currently based in New York.…