Month: December 2014
15 TV shows you can’t miss this Christmas
Christmas TV is one of the best things about the festive period, with specials, mashups and quizzes galore. We've taken our pick of the 15 best shows to fall asleep in front of this year. [nextpage title="next"] Strictly Come Dancing -- 5PM Christmas Day, BBC 1 Bruce Forsyth is back hosting this special one-off episode…
15 tech predictions for 2015: including 3D printing, smart fabrics and 8K TVs
What does next year have in store for tech fans? Will we see more wearables coming onto the market and what innovations can we expect to see occurring in our living rooms and in our cars? Chris Price looks into his crystal ball to give 15 tech predictions for 2015. 1. Smartwatches will be next growth…
The NHS is setting up DNA sequencing centres across England
The NHS is setting up 11 Genomics Medicine Centres in English hospitals in order to try to improve treatments for diseases including cancer and genetic illnesses. The hope is that by making medications more personalised, they’ll be able to work more effectively with each individual’s genes and body chemistry. As the BBC reports, doctors will…
A new 12-inch Retina Macbook Air could enter production very soon
Over the course of 2014 there have been an awful lot of rumours about the possibility of various updated Macs, including a Macbook Air with a Retina display. Apple didn't announce anything Mac related, but as the year draws to a close a new rumour suggests that the Macbook Air people have been waiting for…
Don’t trust TV doctors’ advice, says study
No one expects doctors to be anything like they are on TV, which isn’t always a bad thing, because while it would be nice to meet George Clooney in the emergency room, an encounter with Dr House could scar you for life. But when it comes to real doctors on TV, we do expect them…
Our 10 favourites from ASOS ‘New In’
[nextpage title="Next"] As Christmas approaches rapidly, you SHOULD have already got all your presents sorted (if you haven’t, there’s still time to buy with our guide to 10 presents you can still buy on Christmas Eve), so now it’s time to spend some money on yourself, with the little you have left. As always, ASOS…
The ‘OK Google’ voice search is coming to Chromebooks
Android phones and tablets have come pre-installed with Google Now, Google's own virtual assistant, for some time now, and one of the features is that the phone is always listening in for the command 'OK Google'. Now that feature is coming to Chromebooks. So what does that mean? Well whenever a Chromebook is turned on…
LG tricks dogs with transparent TV prank
You might remember LG's prank department for their viral super-hit convincing interview candidates that the world was ending. Now they're back, using 4K on a super-thin bezel-less TV to trick dogs into thinking the screen is transparent. Unsurprisingly, the animals are pretty convinced there's really another creature behind the screen. We're not totally sure this shows the benefits of 4K…
App review: the new Zomato helps you find restaurants that do pancakes (among other things!)
Zomato has been around for a pretty long time – 6 years, in fact – as a restaurant discovery service. But there are lots of those, so it hasn’t really ignited our interest until now, other than making us vaguely wonder why you’d spell tomato with a Z. But they’ve just launched a new version…
Review: we set the phone from The Apprentice a series of tasks
Image source: BBC Apprentice Frankly, if you’d told us last month that we’d be reviewing a landline phone, we’d have laughed you out of the office. But when we were given the chance to try not just any landline phone, but the one from The Apprentice – well, how could we refuse? This couldn’t be just…
