Author: Holly Brockwell
Editor Holly worked on some of the tech industry's most high-profile smartphone launches before coming to us, and is a self-confessed Android fangirl. She's currently lusting after the Galaxy S6 Edge, and is never seen without her Misfit Shine.
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…
Wine ice cream exists, and you can get drunk on it
The universe has heard your prayers.Your favourite two guilty pleasures – ice cream and wine – have come together in a heavenly fusion that can only be described as dangerously brilliant. This isn't wine-flavoured ice cream, oh no. This is eight separate flavours of wine-infused, proper ice cream with a butterfat content of 15% and a proof of…
Review: hands-on with 5 pairs of touchscreen gloves
They call me Icefingers. My hands are never, ever what you'd call warm, and on winter days they're basically a bunch of icicles attached to my wrists. So I'm the perfect person to test smartphone gloves, both in terms of how well they work with phone screens (less well than you'd expect, as it turns out) and how…
NASA parodies Meghan Trainor with ‘All About That Space’
Everyone loves the catchy beat of Meghan Trainor's smash hit 'All About That Bass', but not everyone's been quite as keen on the lyrics. Luckily, NASA's here to save us with their science-themed parody, 'All About That Space', and we love it. Yes, some of the dancing's a bit dodgy and yes, it goes on…
We tried the 30-second ‘wrapping hack’. It took 6 minutes.
This video of a man speed-wrapping boxes in a Japanese department store has been going crazy on the interwebs: At last, all our problems with wrapping regular-shaped boxes are over! Surely we, too, can flash-wrap our Christmas presents this way? Well, I gave it a go. And you know what? It's impossible. Not only does he do it too…
Thought your iPhone was on mute? Think again
As I ranted last week (and enraged every Apple fanboy on the internet, it seems), the iPhone mute switch is a baffling piece of tech. There are already volume buttons which could (should) do the same thing, it doesn't stop your phone from vibrating, and now it seems it doesn't even work. Lemon. A…
One-stop Christmas shopping: all our buying guides in one place
Whether you're stressing over Secret Santa or wondering what to get Gramps, our buying guides are your saviour. We'll be doing them all December to help you find the coolest, best value and most-wanted presents to put under the tree this Christmas, plus where to find the prettiest dresses and sparkliest Christmas party shoes –…
31 beautiful pairs of Christmas party flat shoes
Trudging around bars, restaurants and rainy pavements in sky-high heels doesn't sound very fun to us. And besides, after half an hour on the dance floor, everyone takes them off anyway – so start the Christmas party as you mean to go on with our round-up of the most festive Christmas flats this year. Oh, and…
Five minutes with the Galaxy Note Edge
This week, we got our hands on the not-yet-released Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. Here's a quick 5-minute tour of what it can do. The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is released in the UK on 17th December. It comes in black and white, with the white colourway exclusive to Carphone Warehouse. Preorder it here.
For the first time ever, a woman is shortlisted for Fifa’s Goal of the Year
...and what a goal it is, too, scored for Irish side Peamount United in October last year. (Yes, we know it won't play within this page... that's Fifa for you). Best of all, we expected an outpouring of misogyny on Twitter and YouTube, but the comments are almost all really positive. Well done, world. Stephanie…
