Month: December 2014
Mango Bikes unveils new, customise it for yourself, model the Curve
Mango Bikes, the budding bespoke bicycle company, has just launched its new range with the Curve single speed especially for women. It features an extra padded saddle, sturdy steel frame and curved tube top for comfortable riding in a skirt, and is aimed at commuters or student wanting to get around the city or campus…
Bright idea: IBM India’s making light from old laptops
Re-using batteries from old laptops could provide a source of light for millions of people in the developing world. Or that’s what IBM Research India is hoping, anyway. According to Treehugger, their new project aims to provide power to the 400 million people in India living without mains electricity – or some of them, at…
Nokia’s Here maps is finally available on all Android devices
Nokia's Here maps is an app that first came to Android devices as a Samsung Galaxy exclusive back in October, and it was announced yesterday that the app is now available on the Google Play store for all Android users to enjoy. Here has everything you'd want from a mapping app: public transport information, local points…
10 best apps for saving money over Christmas
[nextpage title="Next"] As much as Christmas is the most exciting time of year, it’s also the most expensive. From buying all of the food to all of the presents to all of the travel, you end up spending all of the money every year. With so many apps available to help you save your pennies,…
The BBC’s bringing JK Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling to our screens
The Cuckoo’s Calling is coming to a small screen near you. Once mooted as a possible Hollywood blockbuster, the detective novel JK Rowling published under the pseudonym ‘Robert Galbraith’ is now being adapted by the BBC. Rowling won’t be writing it, but she'll apparently have a lot of input. Last year the literary world was…
Sony wanted Netflix to crack down on VPN users
It's great using Netflix, but a lot of people aren't quite content with just watching what's available in their home country. Those people find ways around Netflix's location locks by using a VPN to trick the site into thinking they're in a country that they're not. Sony was not, and probably still isn't, happy about…
Will Vodafone’s HD Voice bring phone calls into the 21st century?
This is a sponsored post. Although the technology packed into our mobile phones has come on in leaps and bounds over recent years, the quality of the humble phone call is still pretty similar to how it was a decade ago. Our smart phones may have gone through a number of wifi standards (from 802.11n to…
Instagram reaches 300 million users, starts verifying celeb accounts
Instagram has announced that the service has reached a landmark 300 million users, with those users uploading more than 70 million photos and videos every day. That means it's now bigger than Twitter, which has 284m users. As is the way with social media services of that size, fake accounts are everywhere -- prompting Instagram to…
Royal Mail has launched a 3D printing service
3D printing has been heralded as a revolutionary process, but since 3D printers have yet to make it big with the average consumer the potential largely goes unused. If only there was some sort of service where we could order 3D printed items and have them delivered straight to our homes... Oh, that's what this…
Computers write better patient reports than doctors, study shows
Who needs doctors?! Well, OK, all of us, probably. But according to a new study, we’re better off with a computer, at least when it comes to admin. Researchers from Cedars-Sinai hospital found that software was better at collecting symptom information and producing detailed reports on patients than doctors were. The study’s authors, who published…
