Category: Fun
Nostalgia overload: the best Christmas toy every year from 1985 to now
No matter when you were born, today's toys aren't a patch on the ones you had when you were a kid. Take a nostalgia-tinted trip through time with our rundown of the top toy every Christmas since '85. [nextpage title="next"] 1985: Transformers Transformers the cartoon launched in 1984, and was basically a giant advert to…
Our favourite last-minute gift of 2014: a subscription to bacon
Subscription boxes have exploded this year (er, not literally) – you can subscribe to everything from the more traditional beauty products to geek goods, cheese, even tampons. But we've found one that beats them all: bacon. Cure & Simple are a UK-based company that offer a weekly, fornightly or monthly delivery of bacon, and you…
Psychologists have studied what makes a good Christmas gift
If you still have to buy a last-minute Christmas gift or two, good news: researchers have studied what makes a good present. And maybe we shouldn’t judge those people who gave us a bread bin or a gadget from the pound shop too harshly: psychologists have so much to say on the topic they’ve just…
12 films you should definitely watch over the Christmas break
Christmas is a time for giving, eating, and spending time with your family. It's also the only time of year where it's acceptable to watch Christmas movies, which is a bit of a shame because some of them are really good. So get ready to hunker down on the sofa with a mince pie and…
15 TV shows you can’t miss this Christmas
Christmas TV is one of the best things about the festive period, with specials, mashups and quizzes galore. We've taken our pick of the 15 best shows to fall asleep in front of this year. [nextpage title="next"] Strictly Come Dancing -- 5PM Christmas Day, BBC 1 Bruce Forsyth is back hosting this special one-off episode…
LG tricks dogs with transparent TV prank
You might remember LG's prank department for their viral super-hit convincing interview candidates that the world was ending. Now they're back, using 4K on a super-thin bezel-less TV to trick dogs into thinking the screen is transparent. Unsurprisingly, the animals are pretty convinced there's really another creature behind the screen. We're not totally sure this shows the benefits of 4K…
Review: we set the phone from The Apprentice a series of tasks
Image source: BBC Apprentice Frankly, if you’d told us last month that we’d be reviewing a landline phone, we’d have laughed you out of the office. But when we were given the chance to try not just any landline phone, but the one from The Apprentice – well, how could we refuse? This couldn’t be just…
Watch your back: Crows are smarter than anyone realised
Scientists (and Alfred Hitchcock) already knew that crows were clever, able to differentiate between and remember human faces, as well as using tools and having their own sophisticated form of communication (French, n'est-ce pas?). Now Russian researchers have found that crows are also capable of advanced relational thinking, alongside apes, monkeys, and oh yes, us.…
Wine ice cream exists, and you can get drunk on it
The universe has heard your prayers.Your favourite two guilty pleasures – ice cream and wine – have come together in a heavenly fusion that can only be described as dangerously brilliant. This isn't wine-flavoured ice cream, oh no. This is eight separate flavours of wine-infused, proper ice cream with a butterfat content of 15% and a proof of…
Energy-efficient housing increases the risk of asthma
Things that are good for the environment often turn out to be good for our health as well, but that’s not always the case. In fact, a new study’s found that when it comes to energy-efficient housing, people are actually more at risk of developing asthma. A research team from the University of Exeter Medical…
