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Retro without the rummage: how to buy vintage clothes online

Vintage shopping can be wonderful, and awful. For every perfectly-tailored gem you dig out from the back of a dusty rail, there are usually several hours of exhausting, disappointing rummaging and trying on polyester frocks that don't stretch across your boobs. But thankfully that doesn't have to be the way anymore – because unlike our well-dressed…

Amazon’s Fire Phone is coming to the UK this month, will be an O2 exclusive

Amazon's Fire Phone has been out in the US for a couple of months, and now it's been revealed that it'll be available in the UK later this month exclusively on O2. Originally speculated in the Financial Times, and Gizmodo UK claims to have had the news confirmed by a trusted source. In case you didn't know,…

Samsung claims curved TVs are the future

I'm under the opinion that curved TVs are a passing fad, much like the 3D TVs that have been on sale for the past five or six years. Samsung's Global President for TV, Kim Hysuk, has different ideas -- he envisions a day when all TVs are curved. Apparently the newly available bendable screens will…

Mobile rumours: New 7-inch Nexus, HTC ditches the smartwatch business

The world of mobile news is scary and complicated, with rumours flying about all over the place about what the many different companies are planning on doing. If you don’t know what you’re looking for then chances are you won’t get very far, so to ease your burden here are some of today’s biggest mobile…

Samsung’s Gear VR headset could be rather cheap

According to reports, if you wanted to get your hands on Samsung's Gear VR headset as a standalone accessory it'll cost somewhere within the region of $200, which is £120 directly converted. So chances are it'll be around £200 when it comes to the UK. But that does make it cheaper than a number of…

Facebook videos in your News Feed will now have a view count

Facebook has never really been the go-to place for video uploads, that's what the likes of YouTube and Vimeo are for, but it seems the company is starting to focus more on video content with the announcement that videos on the news feed will actually have video counts now. According to Facebook 65 per cent of video…

Life beyond ASOS: the best online fashion stores you’ve not discovered yet

It's the world's most visited fashion site, and we've never wondered why – the postman always rings thrice where our ASOS habits are concerned (then pops back for our free returns). But even with its colossal choice of trends and labels, we're still getting a few too many 'ASOS? Snap!'  moments these days – notably one…

The tech at IFA: smartwatches, tablets, and more phones

IFA has been going on for another day, and with it come a host of new mobile announcements. So today we're looking at the new tablets, smartwatches, and phones that has been announced in Berlin over the past couple of days. Moto G 2014 The original Moto G has become Motorola's best selling smartphone of…

Falco’s electric bike converter is powered by your heart

There are a lot of electric bike converters out there, but they don’t all have this much heart. Weirdly enough, I mean that literally. Electronics company Falco is currently raising money on Kickstarter for Fusion Sports Drive, its converter kit that can turn any bike into an electric bike, so you’ll never have to struggle…