In the last few years the ICT sector in Lebanon has experienced something of a boom, worth an estimated $381 million in 2014 and growing at a rate of 7.9 per cent. Traditionally, Lebanese talent tended to make its biggest impact abroad, with global diaspora estimated at around 14 million. However, this trend has recently … Read more
The scenario is all too familiar. You have lost your phone, dropped it in water, or have just simply upgraded and moved to a new phone. As you do so, you lose your contacts, your texts, your photos and in the process, all your important memories. In fact, a lot of people rather not upgrade … Read more
So on the 21st of December I received my EARIN headphones, over a year after I paid for them. Let’s get this out of the way first as I don’t want it to colour my review, the delivery of the kickstarter product has been perhaps predictably terrible with delay after delays with not enough information … Read more
For hundreds of years, people have dreamed of virtual reality technologies. Countless sci-fi writers and filmmakers have imagined futures in which we talk to holograms, immerse ourselves in artificial worlds, and manipulate three-dimensional digital models. But until the 1980s, our technology simply hadn’t developed to a point where virtual reality was feasible. In the 80s, … Read more
It is not often that you come across an idea so simple, you wonder why it isn’t the normal way to do things. The Kickstarter we are featuring today is one such product, and I am highly grateful to the team for actually sending me some prototypes to test before their actual product launch. So, … Read more
We get a lot of emails from prospective Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects, every day, sometimes many times a day. A lot of those projects are great, and while we’d like to feature each of them, we often end up having to love them and leave them as emails because of time. However, you do get … Read more
The Raspberry Pi is by far one of the best tools we have seen in a while that is designed to teach kids, and in fact grown ups, coding. However, a tool is only as good as you use it. The world out there is full of interesting projects, and in fact Kickstarter has been … Read more
So you bought yourself a brand new Raspberry Pi, and you can’t believe you have just ended up buying a computer for about £30? Well done! However, your new ‘computer’ needs a case, and accessories to be really useful, and because of the amazing success the Raspberry Pi has had, the accessories do not really … Read more
Smart wearables are coming, and they are popping out of every major company’s R&D centres. However, as is rightly pointed out by the manufacturers of Gravity, they are limited in what they do, and often you have to pick and choose between what you want. Gravity are looking to work around this limitation of the … Read more
Now here is a Kickstarter project close to home, and close to heart. A robotics project that is designed to inspire kids to learn both electronics and programming, and more importantly, to get the family together in building this. Hey, this is the next version of your kits for the family to work together on, … Read more