Author: Ashley Norris
IFA 2013 – Ford's very cool AppLink – Video
Ford's big focus at IFA was on AppLink, the dashboard's way of hooking up to your iPhone, Android or BlackBerry device to offer hands-free, voice activated, in-car versions of popular apps while on the go. FA 2013 saw Ford announce a number of new partners for AppLink, including Hotels.com and TomTom navigation to follow its…
IFA 2013: Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch lands
It's been one of the tech industries worst kept secrets but at IFA 2013 in Berlin, Samsung formally unveiled the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Connecting to to an Android smartphone via Bluetooth, it is around the size of a regular watch with a 1.63-inch AMOLED (320 x 320 pixels) touchscreen display and 1.9-megapixel 'Memographer' camera on…
Doro adds a super simple to use smartphone – the Liberto 810
Doro, the Swedish company that makes simple to use mobile phones is back with a new model. The Doro Liberto 810 keeps the company's trademark ultra accessible interface - the - but wraps it around an Android 4.1 based smartphone. I guess the theory is that you can work out how to do the basics…
IFA 2013 – Ford adds Spotify, Tom Tom and others to its in-car AppLink system
Ford has one upped the ante in the way cars are integrating consumer technology by revealing a host of new apps for its AppLink system at IFA. AppLink (which essentially connects a smartphone to Ford's SYNC connected dashboard system) now works some really interesting content company and service providers including Spotify, Tom Tom and Hotels.com.…
Liverpool is America's best known British city (apart from London) – but Paris and Wales make the top ten
There's a really lovely survey over at Blog Session which is well worth checking out. The writer, Stacey Cavanagh asked 1000 Americans to name a British city that wasn't London, and the results are fascinating. In top place, is not Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh or Cardiff, but Liverpool. I wonder if more than anything else this…
IFA 2013 Philips and Armin van Buuren debut M1X-DJ Sound System
If you are going to launch a DJ system then I guess it is good form to get a DJ to help you out. And that's exactly what Philips have done for the launch of its new M1X-DJ System which debuted today at IFA. They got Armin van Buuren on board to help promote what…
Proper bling – Happy Plugs' £10,000 gold earphones
I don't know about you but i am always losing my earphones! If I had these beauties though I guess I'd be a bit more careful with them because Happy Plugs' latest set of in-ear phones are finished in ulp, 18-carat solid gold. Made by a Swedish goldsmith in Stockholm who creates the headphones by…
Nikon unveils COOLPIX P7800 top-end compact camera and COOLPIX S02 snapper
Nikon has today taken the wraps of a pair of cameras in its COOLPIX range - a high-end model and a budget compact snapper. Nikon says that the top ender, the P7800, is aimed at enthusiasts who want a compact camera that still gives them plenty of manual and creative options. It features a high…
IFA 2013 – Toshiba unveils eight inch Encore Windows 8 tablet
There are plenty of new tablets at IFA and among them is this newbie from Toshiba. The Encore tablet runs Windows 8.1and sports a you, guessed it, eight inch screen and Tosh says it is designed for consumers who want a tablet that they can both work and play on. It features a full version…
IFA 2013 – Toshiba drops innovative Camileo X-Sports sportscam
Samsung and Sony might have dominated the first day of IFA 2013 but there are plenty of their consumer electronics companies with interesting stuff at the show. Like Toshiba, which has just unveiled the Camileo X-Sports sportscam, which has quite a few interesting features. The camera, which sports a 5.08cm (2.0") embedded LCD display, is…
