Category: Fun
LG G2 – the basics, pics, UK availability
Last night LG finally took the wraps off their heavily-leaked top-end Android smartphone. And so far the reaction has been pretty positive. It seems that LG has chosen to focus on usability and has come up trumps with a phone that has some clever and very useful facilities. It is the kind of re-invention of…
Firebox drops Marshall fridge – cools products to 11
Here is possibly the most bonkers brand extension ever, Marshall, which as any proper rock star will tell you is the last name in go to 11 amps, has unveiled the Marshall Fridge. Yep you did read that right. It is a fully functioning fridge decked out to resemble a good old Marshall stack. And…
John Lewis to offer the UK's largest TV – Sharp's AQUOS LC-90LE757
Fancy a big TV, and we mean the biggest you can buy? Well John Lewis has announced that it has bagged the Sharp 90inch AQUOS LC-90LE757 LED TV and it will be on sale in the store in the next couple of weeks. The TV is, as you'd imagine, a bit of a monster that…
Sky adds new +HD box and £10 streaming gizmo
A couple of big-ish announcements this morning from Sky TV. The satellite TV broadcaster/broadband provider has announced the imminent arrival of a new Sky+HD box, with integrated wireless facilities and a Now TV £10 box that enables viewers to watch on demand services. The announcement of the new box was included in the company's financial…
Will you be buying the Google Chromecast?
It has been hailed as a smart move by Google, but will you be investing in one? The Google Chromecast, which debuted yesterday is a dongle that plugs into your TV's HDMI socket and enables you to stream video content from a number of devices to your screen. It is apparently compatible with Android and…
Flipboard – now targeting your web browser
As anyone who has an iPad knows already Flipboard is a fabulous way to keep tabs on your friend's social media output.The company recently also started to enable users to update their own magazine type feeds too. Now it appears that the company has designs on your web browser too. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has…
Clever new shopping site The Hunt launches with a bit of help from Kutcher and Banks
The world isn't exactly short of social shopping sites at the moment. You know the places where you buy stuff and then share it via your social media accounts. Certainly fab.com loks like it is about to take over the enitire world. Here's yet another one - The Hunt - though this is is a…
Scary stuff! What does your selfie say about you…
Let she who is without selfies cast the first moan! But if selfies could speak... what would they say? Classic pout "I'm a traditional gal. I don't deviate. like mild peri-peri on my Nando's, and Paul McCartney is my favourite Beatle." Extreme pout "By playing with the proportions of the conventional photographic pout, I am…
Tech start up Betegy can predict football games score – claims 90% sucess rate
Everyone who loves football fancies themselves a bit of a pundit. Who hasn't taken on Lawro on the BBC challenge and scoffed at his constant positive predictions for Liverpool FC! Imagine though if you could use technology to predict the outcome of games, and what if that tech was around 90% accurate? Well thats the…
What's coming next from LG? Optimus G2? New launch date unveiled
It seems that international media events in New York are the big story at the moment in the mobile world. And here is another one. LG has announced that it will be holding a shindig on August 7th in that US city. But what will it launch? The clever money is on the latest of…
