Category: Gadgets
Review: Technology Will Save Us’s super-simple DIY Thirsty Plant Kit
This is my desk plant, Ivy: (Get it? Holly and the Ivy? I'm a genius). She sits on my desk at Shiny Towers, and occasionally I remember to douse her with a bit of drinking water, some leftover tea, or even Diet Coke. Despite this flagrant mistreatment, she actually seems to be doing quite well.…
JIVR Bike hits Kickstarter: Will e-bikes signal the end of the commute?
We all know the feeling. You're late. You're a bit hungover. You squeeze onto a packed tube train. It smells. It's warm. You get delayed. You feel a bit travel sick. You get elbowed in the face. Ugh, sorry. We beat your heart rate is slowly creeping up as you read this. Well, we might…
Acer Aspire Switch 10 review: this convertible laptop offers excellent value
After briefly trying the Acer Aspire Switch 10 at Acer's Edinburgh liveblogging event, we were keen to get a closer look at this super-lightweight laptop-tablet hybrid. We suspected it'd be perfect for working on the go, so we took it to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to really put it to the test. Here's our Acer Aspire…
Microsoft’s working on a smart ring that matches your clothes
Owning a whole wardrobe of jewellery to match your various outfits might soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft's research arm, Microsoft Labs, is working on a range of jewellery that can sense the colour it's placed on, and turn the same shade. Called Blush, the range includes brooches and a ring. We gave the ring a…
12 cheap laptop sleeves and cases under £30
[nextpage title="Next"] We brought you 12 stylish backpacks to carry your laptop to work in last week, but you're not going to want to throw your laptop straight into your bag without some extra protection from everything else in there. Laptop sleeves don't have to be expensive though. We've found you 12 of our favourites…
9 must-see videos from Mobile World Congress
You know all about the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the HTC One M9. But what did you miss from the mobile world's biggest annual gathering? Here are the 9 videos you need to see from MWC 2015. Hands on with Alcatel Idol 3 We try out the phone you can use any way up. Hands on…
Which phones accept the new SanDisk 200GB microSD card? We asked 7 brands
The whopping new SanDisk 200GB microSD card caused a bit of a stir at Mobile World Congress. When we wrote about it, lots of you asked us whether there are any phones on the market that will take the new card. We asked 7 smartphone brands (ASUS, HTC, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, LG and Microsoft) whether their…
Meet Phantom: the £1400 speaker Devialet don’t need you to buy #MWC15
Sitting in the limousine that Devialet provided journalists to persuade them to listen to yet another sound system, I asked the representative a question. "If your product is sold out almost everywhere," I queried, a can of Fanta Limón in my pampered hand, "why do you want us to write about it? People can't buy it."…
Teaching skills to robots helps children learn
Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have just presented CoWriter, their new robotic teaching system, at the Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in the U.S. The system consists of a 58cm tall humanoid robot model plus specialist software that allows the robot to write words, and for its handwriting to improve over time. It’s…
“Holy moly, I’m in Portal!” – hands on with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset #MWC15
HTC's announcement of a virtual reality headset, created in partnership with world-leading games company Valve (Half Life, Portal, Steam...), took Mobile World Congress entirely by surprise on Sunday. We were all feeling pretty clever, thinking we'd already seen everything they had to show (since most of the HTC One M9 material leaked before the launch),…
