It's now OK to chat to your washing machine, thanks to LG

Do you ever find yourself getting annoyed at your home appliances and start calmly talking to them to try getting them to work properly? Thanks to LG, you can now actually communicate with your fridge, washing machine, microwave and oven with a new HomeChat service. Yes, this does sound like a bizarre idea, but, hold…

You can now live in a completely automated Jetsons-style home

Our homes are becoming smarter everyday and even the dullest of tech brands are branching out into cool, connected devices to make our home lives easier and more automated than ever. But how would you like to live in the world's most connected and automated home with a kitchen that has glass partitions, which turn…

Moves breaks its promise and changes its privacy policy

11 days after being acquired by Facebook, and assuring users it wouldn't change its privacy policy, our favourite fitness-tracking app, Moves, has done exactly that - changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data. On Friday, Moves's privacy policy still read that the company did not "disclose an individual user's data to third…

Watch this video and decide whether you need to 'Look Up' from your phone

In case you missed it over the weekend, a five-minute spoken word film urging people to unplug from smartphones and social media has, ironically, gone viral through people sharing it on social media. Titled 'Look Up', the sentimental Youtube video shows writer and director Gary Turk reading a poem, ordering people to "look up from…

Forget about selfies! It's all about #shelfies

Selfies are SO 2013. If you want to show off your photos online, it's all about the #shelfie for 2014. On Instagram, there's been a massive increase in the number of people taking photos of their bookcases and shelves, and the hashtag is now accompanied by nearly 40,000 pictures on the photo-sharing app. Danika So,…

Watch what happens when Netflix becomes real-life

As much as we love Netflix, and its seemingly endless amount of TV shows and movies to watch, it can get very annoying with its recommendations sometimes. Just because we loved Big Daddy doesn't mean we're going to like Just Go With It. As much as we love Jennifer Anniston and Adam Sandler - it's…

These new mock up photos could put iPhone 6 rumours to rest

While no one knows exactly what the new Apple iPhone 6 will look like, this new mock up that's been released by 86Digi, has apparently been made by the official iPhone 6 schematics. Rumoured to be unveiled between now and the autumn, the new phone looks even sleeker than the iPhone 5, with a 4.7-inch…

Your drawings can now come to life with this 3D pen!

These may look like ordinary home decorations, but they were actually created using a pen! Allowing your ideas to become a reality immediately, there is now a 3D printing pen, which can draw anything you want, Using melting plastic, this pen allows you to create free-standing objects in a matter of seconds, which could be…

Snapchat adds video chat and instant messaging, but is it necessary?

Snapchat has added video and instant message chat features today, but, for an app whose main selling point is sending short pictures and videos to friends, is it a necessary update? At the moment, Snapchat is used to send funny pictures to friends; usually in-jokes that only they can see, or showing off about something…

Watch these kids react to a walkman and prepare to feel old

It doesn't seem THAT long ago that we got our iPods, but when a kid says, "You need headphones just to listen to music? Do you know how messed up that is?", you know you're old. That's exactly how one boy reacted when shown a Walkman and a cassette in a Youtube video from the…