Month: August 2014
The Pebble smartwatch is now available in #FreshHotFly colours
If you’ve been holding out for the original Pebble smartwatch to be given a design overhaul, to be as stylish as the Pebble Steel, you’re in luck, as it’s been given some bright new colour combinations today. Available for a limited time, you can now get the Pebble smartwatch in Fresh Green, Hot Pink and…
HTC One M8 vs Samsung Galaxy S5 – our interactive buying guide
Weighing up the pros and cons of buying a mobile? Not sure which model to shell out for? Well we can help. We have taken many of the most popular mobiles and compared their specs, looks, performance and features. And then to make things easier for you incorporated them into a quiz, or as we…
Moto 360: New photos show smartwatch’s heart rate sensor and charging dock
Motorola has been releasing images and even a swoon-worthy video of its new Moto 360 smart watch over the past few months, but today tech blog Mister Gadget has published a bunch of new hands-on photos that are much more realistic and show-off some features we've been dying to take a closer look at. First…
Wikipedia and the Macaque selfie saga: Who REALLY owns the right to our images?
See update from 07/08/2014 below. Remember the Disney movie-like story of the macaque who stole a camera and decided to go ahead and take a bunch of selfies? Well, who knew that this beautiful tale of primate posing would cause such an uproar. British photographer David Slater, who owns the camera the cheeky monkey (geddit?)…
Is this the UK’s cheapest laptop – Ebuyer’s Lenovo B50?
Ebuyer.com is selling what it claims is the cheapest laptop on the market, at £199.98, in the shape of the Lenovo B50. While eagle-eyed laptop lovers will realise this is the same price as HP’s 255 G1 laptop with Ubuntu, this Lenovo B50 laptop is being offered with £30 cash back until the end of August,…
This Crosley and Urban Outfitters UO X Crosley Sterling record player is STUNNING!
Crosley have made some lovely looking record players in the past, but this one could be its most stylish yet. Spotted by Retro2Go the UO X Crosley Sterling is a Dansette style player that spins vinyl at 33, 45 and 78rpm. It has removable legs, is housed in a faux leather-clad casing, and sports a…
Sony Xperia Z2 review: A handsome high-end handset you can safely drop in the bath
Handset supplied by Vodafone. Just six months after the Sony Xperia Z1 hit the shelves, the Z2 bounded onto the scene with its bigger screen and beefier battery. It’s a fantastic all-rounder with very few drawbacks, but will it be outclassed by the next version before the year is out? The handset 7/10 The Xperia…
Everything we know so far about the iPhone 6
[nextpage title="Next"] We now all know that Apple is holding a press event on 9th September with the express intention of unveiling the iPhone 6 to the world. Considering how soon that is, and how much we've already heard about the highly anticipated phone we've decided to go through everything we've heard so far to make…
Wasp venom could treat breast cancer
Most of us spend summer trying to avoid wasps, but a group of Spanish scientists has been studying them instead. And they've found that as well as being annoyingly buzzy and prone to stinging people, they could actually help to treat cancer. Researchers from the Institute for Biomedical Research in Barcelona have come up with…
9 Situations when it’s totally not OK to take a selfie: burning stuff, plane crash & jail
A huge controversy stirred up the media and Twitter masses earlier this week when Louisa Foley's social media faux pas, which we'll be referring to as 'the burning bikini selfie', went viral. But social media uproar aside, it's got everyone wondering: When is it totally OK to take a selfie? And when is it totally…
