By Jonathan Microsoft have just announced their new Xbox console: the Xbox One. Designed to be central to your living room, the Xbox One will bring with it a host of features that intend on making it the ultimate of all-on-one entertainment and gaming system. To quote from Microsoft’s press release: “New Xbox One hardware … Read more
I’ve been a Flickr Pro user since early 2005. Practically forever, in internet terms. And the service has just gotten its biggest update in years. Aside from the new appearance, the biggest changes are huge increases in storage capacity for free users, and the (rumored) first steps toward sunsetting its paid user (Pro) accounts. Mashable … Read more
By Ross As a life long dog owner there is no worse sight than an obese dog, but with people working longer hours and our foods becoming increasingly full of fats and sugars it is becoming all too common. This latest Kickstarter aims to help with this problem. The FitBark is a small water resistant … Read more
By Jonathan Following our theme of backing some of the more “homegrown” Kickstarter campaigns (see here), we now would like to bring your attention to another UK-based and gadget-related campaign: The iBeacon. The iBeacon aims to solve one of life’s most frustrating occurrences: missed calls. We’ve all been there: you hear something that sounds vaguely … Read more
By Sami Mughal Oh, who doesn’t love LEGO? In fact, if you don’t you are probably on the wrong website! Here we feature some of the LEGO Technic range, which we think is an ideal Fathers Day present. In fact, most of you would probably just end up buying it for yourselves. I know I … Read more
By Sami Mughal Entering the realm of entertainment, XBOX have announced The Music Room, an interactive two part series delivering the latest up and coming artists right to your living room, exclusively on XBOX Live. It will be hosted by Laura Jackson, and hosts a line of exciting new performers. XBOX Gold members can watch … Read more
By Sami Mughal Records are made to be broken, and while not all are exciting, some of them really are. Yesterday, British Explorer Daniel Hughes made the world’s first video call from the top of Mount Everest. This means that the technology works well at about 8500m high above sea, as well as at –35 … Read more
By Jonathan We had a quick look at EE’s coverage map today and were surprised to see that a fair proportion seemed to have 4G signal, even though no official announcement had been made. We reached out to their customer services team and received the following reply: “While EE is currently working on 4G signal … Read more
By Sami Mughal One of the selling features of the Sony Xperia Z is its resistance to both water and dust. On top of that, it promises shock and scratch protection as well. The phone comes with a rating of IP55 and IP57. The IP ratings is a standard followed all over the industry, and … Read more
By Sami Mughal One of the biggest things that came out of Google I/O 2013 was the new Google Maps. Since they are offering a preview service, we signed up and here is a little hands on tour through what we found and our opinions. First of all, if you would like to get in … Read more