Month: November 2014
Meet Articulate, the security-conscious clutch bag
The amazing-looking Articulate Clutch just closed for funding on Kickstarter, having raised six times its $10,000 goal. Not surprising given that in addition to being a classy, colourful little bag to take out with you, it comes with some pretty smart features for protecting your money. The main one is RFID-blocking, which is becoming popular with the rise of…
Bumble is a new dating app from Tinder’s exiled co-founder
Earlier this year Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe left the company after launching a sexual harassment lawsuit because in which she claimed co-founder Justin Mateen stripped of her credit because he believed her age and gender would be harmful to the brand. Now she's back with a brand new dating app that looks like it could…
The Nutshell pod gives you privacy at work (and makes you seem weird)
Now here’s what I call multi-tasking: not only does the Nutshell isolation pod give you time out when the world around you gets too much, but it also makes you look like a complete weirdo. (I’m guessing fans of the Ostrich pillow will be rushing to snap one up.) Designed by Eden Lew, a masters…
Tina Fey’s new show is coming to Netflix next spring
Not content with signing up the Queen (sort of), Netflix is also going into business with the Queen of comedy: Tina Fey. As Variety reports, the online streaming service has snapped up her new sitcom. Fey won’t actually appear in it, but she is writing and producing the show with Robert Carlock, who she worked…
Hush smart earplugs block out everything except your phone ringer
There are a lot of reasons for wanting to wear earplugs, one of the most popular being able to sleep without all that irritating ambient noise disturbing you. But they're rather indiscriminate with what they block out, and the same plugs that block out the nearby dual carriageway could also block out the alarm on your…
Smartwatches are actually breeding a new form of piracy
When you think of piracy you either think of Jack Sparrow, or you think about those annoying adverts on DVDs that try and drill it into you that downloading a free movie is a crime. You don't really think of custom smartwatch faces do you? For years if you wanted to go around sporting the look…
Caught out! Facebook can tell which of your friends are UKIP supporters
They may have just won two byelections and gained their first parliamentary seats, but there's still a certain... stigma attached to being an out-and-proud UK Independence Party (UKIP) supporter. But Facebook's all-seeing eye means that there is an easy way of discovering the truth (because Facebook is a trusted source, obviously). As Political Scrapbook has found, there's a…
The week in hashtags: #MyHungerGames, #AMAs, #ImageFromRochester, #MyDressMyChoice
This week, Twitter has been protesting economic and gender inequality, bad lunches and red carpet mistakes. Here's what you need to know. #MyHungerGames As everyone gears up for the release of Mockingjay: Part 1, the penultimate film in the $800 million-grossing Hunger Games franchise, US activists The Harry Potter Alliance have turned Suzanne Collins' fantasy story…
The government wants ISPs to keep a record all user IP addresses
In another case of middle-aged-officials-who-don't-quite-get-technology, the government has announced a new measure that would require ISPs to log the IP addresses of all machines and mobile devices that access the internet. Because everyone knows it's impossible to hide your IP address. According to the BBC, Home Secretary Theresa May will announce the new requirement on Wednesday as part…
Great news, cheaters! Ninety-six percent of your friends won’t tell on you
If you want to find out if your partner’s cheating, you’d better start rifling through his credit card receipts or work out the password to his phone quick smart, because you can be all but certain that his friends will never tell you. And the flip side is true, too: if you’re being unfaithful, your…
