Month: July 2014
Style Thief and FindSimilar have created ‘Shazam for clothes’
We’ve all had that moment where we’ve looked at someone walking past us with envy at how incredibly well put together their outfit is, only to find out her dress is a vintage piece from the 70s, and you’re never going to find it. Or how about swooning over Rosie Huntington Whiteley’s dress from the…
Safer IVF is on the way
Twelve babies have been born after researchers tested a new, safer way of stimulating ovulation for women undergoing IVF. Scientists from Imperial College London and doctors at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust worked together to trial the technique. They recruited 53 women who were healthy but experiencing infertility, and injected them with the adorably-named natural…
INSIGHT – Do the over 30s now prefer Snapchat to Facebook?
The first time that we heard about Snapchat, like everyone else, we said to our friend, ‘But what’s the point in an app where you just send pictures for them to be deleted after five seconds?’ With the photo-sharing app revealing in May that users were sending 700 million photos and videos per day, while…
Lose weight, not sleep: the patented app designed to eliminate excess weight
A new app has been released which aims to help you lose weight by cutting out unnecessary stress in the morning. Developed by a neuroscientist, the Weight Loss Alarm Clock allegedly reduces stress levels upon waking up by playing a soothing Tibetan alarm sound as opposed to a more blaring noise, which in turn produces a less tense…
Cortana is coming to the UK in ‘two weeks’
We told you it was coming, and now we have a date, or at least some idea of when we'll see Cortana in the UK. In response to a question on Twitter from software engineer Pete Stensønes, the Group Program Manager for Cortana on Windows Phone, Marcus Ash, said that Cortana would hit our shores…
Online conversation analysis reveals wearables are more popular with women
Women are much more positive about wearable technology than their male counterparts, a social media monitoring platform has found. Brandwatch partnered with Brilliant Noise to gather and analyse more than eight million online conversations about wearable technology between the months of January 2013 and July 2014. While it found that men dominated the conversation (65%), female authors were 42%…
Social media is increasing our complaints against doctors
Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook are making us more apt to moan about our GPs and surgeons. At least, that’s the conclusion from a new report from the General Medical Council (GMC). They asked a team of researchers from Plymouth University to blame the internet investigate after the number of complaints against doctors almost doubled in…
Light my fire! A Bluetooth speaker that’s powered by candles
Your music collection need never burn out with this new Bluetooth speaker from Pelty that's powered by the heat of a candle. Designed by Gianluca Gamba and partners, the aesthetic invention converts the thermal energy from a candle flame to usable power via a thermoelectric generator. This enables the speaker to amplify sound once connected with a Bluetooth device…
Star Wars filmed entirely in Minecraft
If you are a fan of George Lucas' Star Wars films and Mojang's Minecraf games, this is for you. In this trailer the two have been added together to give you a minute and a half look into the world of StarWarsCraft. There's more too as a hard-core fan has been building the entire Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope film…
Orange accidentally inundates customers with texts
Are you one of the many Orange customers that received several texts over the weekend explaining how you can add another magic number? Well, EE, Orange's parent company is very sorry. Miles from EE issued the following apology: 'Unfortunately we're having an issue with the text message service that reminds people they are eligible to…