Month: July 2014
HTC One Mini 2 review: The M8’s smaller sidekick comes up short
Originally published on Tech Digest. Handset supplied by Carphone Warehouse. The trend for releasing a smaller, more budget-friendly version of a flagship phone continues with the confusingly named HTC One Mini 2, which is to the One M8 what the One Mini was to the original One. Yes, this is a hugely confusing situation, and…
The world’s longest tattoo chain: Alice in Wonderland, sentence by sentence, on over 5,000 human subjects
A company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has launched a Kickstarter campaign aiming to (temporarily) ink the entirety of 'Alice in Wonderland' onto over 5,000 separate bodies. Litographs, which is known for its literary-inspired T-shirts, posters and tote bags, wants to inscribe Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel sentence by painstaking sentence on eager bibliophiles, thereby hopefully creating the world's…
Follow your feet: super-smart Google Maps shoes will tell you where to go
Finding your way around unfamiliar territory just got even easier with these new smart shoes from Indian start-up Ducere Technologies. Its snazzy-looking Lechal smart shoes incorporate Bluetooth technology and Google Maps into a special insole which will fit most shoes. Linked up to a smartphone app, the insoles will then emit a buzz in either the left…
HTC Desire 610 Review: HTC’s middle-of-the-road attempt feels more like a child’s toy
Originally published on Tech Digest. Handset supplied by Carphone Warehouse. HTC seems to be attempting to cover all bases with its smartphone releases this year, and the Desire 610 is firmly aimed at the middle of the road. At around £240 SIM-free, it’s one of the cheapest smartphones HTC offers, but there’s stiff competition from…
OSX Yosemite BETA opens to the public
If you're not on Apple's developer program or you didn't watch the WWDC livestream then you most probably have not heard much about the upcoming release of OSX Yosemite for Mac, it comes packed with hundreds of new updates such as a redesigned interface, spotlight, iCloud drive, and you can even send SMS and receive…
Its Chromecast’s 1st birthday – free music for everyone
The Chomecast has broken all records since it launched in the USA, and since being launched in the UK at the great price of £30 has sold millions. To celebrate its birthday the Google Chromecast is offering any US based customers a 3 month free subscription to its Google Play all access music, it is…
Zuckerberg overtakes Google co founders to become 16th richest man in the world
Mark Zuckerberg is a smart man, we all know that, the inventor of Facebook has recently had an amazing earnings call and a little over a year since they went public they have doubled their IPO. With the recent stock prices hitting an all time high it pushes Zuckerberg into a whole new bracket of wealth,…
Is Facebook about to partner with Uber?
With Facebook in a great position after its latest earnings call, and Uber in a not so great position with Seoul looking to ban its service we are left with reports that the two are looking to join forces and collaborate. The idea itself is to integrate Uber directly into Facebook's messenger app, this has been done…
Halo: Nightfall trailer brought to us by Ridley Scott
Halo has been around since November 15, 2001 when its first game 'Halo: Combat Evolved' was released, since then it has spawned many games which have grossed over $3.4bn. Back at E3 we were told about a new story coming to the Halo universe, in what was dubbed 'Halo: Nightfall', the series itself is being worked on by…
Breast cancer zapped by fast new radiotherapy
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended that a revolutionary (and fast) breast cancer treatment should be offered on the NHS. Intra-operative radiation could eventually replace standard radiation treatment. As the name suggests, it takes place during surgery. After a tumour is removed, doctors use the intrabeam radiotherapy system to insert…
