Author: Sadie Hale
Staff Writer
Sadie has written for many UK publications and won the Clothes Show Live Young Journalist of the Year 2014. She loves travelling, live music and seeking out weird and wonderful events to go to. In her spare time she gets nostalgic about the '60s and explores (gets lost in) London on her bike.
Panono’s 360º “throwable selfie camera” will be ready Spring 2015
There has been a scramble for selfie-enabling products in recent months, but this is perhaps the coolest yet: a throwable camera which can take panoramic images in an amazing 108 megapixels. The grapefruit-sized Panono Camera raised a record-breaking $1.25m through a crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, and works by having 36 camera modules embedded around it which simultaneously fire…
Mother cat adopts baby rabbit – something cute for Friday
Now we know that cats can get a bit too excitable when they spot a rodent, but this mama cat has much more maternal ideas in mind when she sees a baby rabbit all alone. According to the video's subtitles, Bubbles - the tiny rabbit in question - lost her mother a week after she was born. But…
10 songs you never knew were cover versions
With sampling, reinterpretation and collaboration all staples of contemporary popular music, it can be difficult to know exactly who has masterminded the song behind the performance. But many of the greatest songs ever were created by borrowing - after all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (supposedly). Here is a list of songs from the past…
What was on TV the day you were born? Find out with BBC Genome
The BBC has today launched 'BBC Genome', a comprehensive project aiming to document every single radio and television programme which has ever been broadcast by the corporation. So if you've ever wondered what was on TV or what was on the radio the day of your birth, there's now a way of finding out. The…
Dear Apple: please don’t neglect iPod nano in tomorrow’s event
With all the eager anticipation surrounding Apple's press event tomorrow, I'd like to stall the speculations with an ode to my absolute favourite Apple product (and a plea to upgrade it): the iPod nano. I've been getting a little nervous recently. Apple is known for ruthlessly pushing forth and usurping much-loved older versions of its products with…
Vodafone’s new budget Smart Tab 4G tablet lands today
Vodafone has today released its latest model in the Smart Tab range: the Smart Tab 4G. Calling it 'our best ever tablet', the team behind the Smart Tab 4G sports an 8-inch HD display, a 5-Megapixel camera (an improvement on the last model), a big 4100mAh battery and powerful performance. And its big feature is that…
KAZAM Tornado 348, the world’s slimmest smartphone, is coming to Europe
It was announced today that the world's slimmest smartphone, the KAZAM Tornado 348, will hit European shores from mid-November. At just 5.15mm thin, the Tornado 348 is almost 2mm thinner than the iPhone 6, at 7.1mm. KAZAM is a new European brand which aims to challenge the status quo within the mobile phone industry by providing a…
Hackers leak up to 200,000 personal Snapchat photos
Up to 200,000 explicit photos have been published online by hackers of the popular photo-sending app Snapchat. As reported by the Guardian, the hackers used a third-party app to get into Snapchat's system, tempting users to sign up for 'snapsaved.com', which would allow them to use a website version of the app on a computer or…
A ‘birthday suit’ morphsuit? Gimme a break
In the latest addition to their infamous collection, the recently rebranded MorphCostumes have teamed up with Faux Real Apparel to create their most ludicrous costume yet: the 'birthday suit'. In the embodiment of pure ridiculousness, the naked man morphsuit, complete with censored nether region, has arrived just in time for Hallowe'en. Great, that's my outfit sorted (not). According to Digital…
More of us now read ebooks on our mobile phones
Mobile phone reading is on the rise as increasing numbers of us use the devices to read ebooks on the go, a new study has found. According to the study by OnePoll for Publishing Technology, 43% of consumers have read an ebook, or part of an ebook, using a phone, with 59% of mobile book readers in…
