Earlier this year I gave a couple of things up for Lent. Chocolate!? Well after a day or so salivating over Crunchie bars in my local newsagent, I pretty much forgot it existed. However my second choice for abstinence - BuzzFeed quizzes - was to prove a lot more tricky. In spite of deciding to…

Earlier in the week the @HiddenCash Twitter account made headlines for starting a feel-good social experiment in San Francisco that saw an anonymous tweeter hide money around the city and leave clues for strangers to find the hidden treasure. Well fear not UK readers, because it looks like the trend has spread across the pond…

Following in the footsteps of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Yahoo, Vimeo has just announced its first exclusive original series, High Maintenance, which will be released later this year. Created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, it's a comedy about an unnamed cannabis dealer (played by Sinclair) and the clients he interacts with. Guest stars include…

File this under great idea which is so obvious that it is amazing that no has done it before, but you will soon be able to get a plug socket that's equipped with a couple of USB ports. So those time when you need to charge your phone, tablet etc but are running out of…

Drones look set to be the next big thing as technology has now reached a point where all of the components are tiny enough for little helicopter-style blades to lift them up - whilst sending a WiFi signal back to a smartphone in real time. Having become a bit obsessed with them recently, and how…

If you're into design or just have an eye for colour, we bet you've spotted a shade while you've been out-and-about that you just wish you could replicate, whether it's a particularly bright flower, piece of street art or eye-popping door that you want to copy on your own. Well, the Scribble Ink is here…

Lomography is a hugely popular online community of analogue photography fans, and this week the team behind the site launched its first instant camera. The Lomo'Instant Camera combines all of the things we love about 35mm Lomos, like attachable lenses, automatic and manual shooting settings, multiple exposures and wide-angle, portrait and fisheye options with the…

There's nothing like Kickstarter (or Indiegogo, or any other crowdfunding platform) for making you realise how many genius inventors there are in the world. Here are four ideas we spotted this week that made us shout, "Yes, that needs to be a thing!" The Verve LED vest A brilliant invention for runners or cyclists exercising…