eBooks vs iPhones – is reading on a mobile phone good enough?
This has been touted as the year of the e-Book, but e-Books and Readers are still relatively niche products in terms of sales. Many more people will have smartphones than specialised reading gadgets, meaning that they have to carry (and buy) fewer gadgets. So is reading on a phone an acceptable alternative to eBooks or…
Voucherhub tells us why their UK vouchers are better than other vouchers
Vouchers are big, we're coming out of recession, thrift is chic and getting £10 off Marks&Spencers is always good whatever the global economy is doing. Given the rise of online shopping, it is hardly surprising that sites collecting online vouchers have got big too. Online vouchers are usually promotional codes that you can fill in…
Wagamama's app: order from your iPhone
Finally someone is bringing a convenient way of ordering chicken itame to the iPhone. Wagamama's - the UK restaurant chain - are now letting you place orders over an iPhone app. Download the Wagamama's app for free, use the GPS to find your nearest restaurant, then browse the menu, order some tiger prawns and stroll…
Samsung's 650TS: a sexy interactive whiteboard
Okay, so whiteboards aren't exactly sexy and conjure up 3rd form French more than that must-have gadget wow factor but Samsung's 650TS Interactive Whiteboard really roused gadget lust in me. So it's a giant 65inch LCD touch screen pinned to the wall. Choose a line colour and thickness and write on the board with your…
Samsung eBooks are great: paper-like and pleasurable to use
Okay we've all seen eBooks before, but Samsung's first foray into the field has produced some pretty desirable devices. Their eBook duo: the E60 and E100 are little treats. Both have pleasant e-ink displays with the E60's screen 6inches across (600 by 800 pixel resolution) and the E100 10 inch (825 by 1200). There's a…
Samsung Wave review: the beautiful screen with a phone attached
Samsung launched the Wave its flagship phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we had a little play round with it yesterday in Vienna and yes, that super AMOLED screen is quite something. If you want a crystal clear display that lets you see the individual veins on a leaf and startlingly bright colours,…
Disco fridge, the talking sign post: the weird bits of Samsung's Vienna
Humorous by-products on display at the Samsung Forum in Vienna included disco fridge, a fridge with LED panels and some speakers bolted on playing pop music and flashing trippy patterns - the sort of fridge Lady Gaga would own, sadly disco fridge was just a one-off, but I'd consider it if it becomes commercially available.…
Samsung's OmniPro – hands-on with the clever microwave
More intelligent white goods from Samsung's Vienna show with the OmniPro Microwave. Not only does the OmniPro cook your food, it knows how much to cook your food and makes helpful suggestions based on the weight and humidity of the items you put in it. Packing both weight and humidity sensors in the stainless steel…
Samsung NaviBot – hands on with the robotic vacuum cleaner
Samsung's fluff-collecting bot unveiled in Vienna yesterday is cute. The Navibot is an intelligent floor cleaner with visual and infra-red sensors making it the smartest thing to crawl around your floor since the stick insects died. But the stick insects were never this complex. A disc shaped object the size of a soup tureen the…
Samsung Forum 2010: a TV remote which IS ALSO A TV
This is slightly mind-blowing - the new remote control accompanying Samsung's LED9000 set will have its own LCD screen on which you can watch TV. The touchscreen on the remote can be used to simply control the large set but you can also use it as a second screen to watch another TV channel on.…
