Category: Gadgets
Brits are sitting on gadgets worth £16.5 billion
Brits are sitting on gadgets worth £16.5 billion they no longer use – and it could DROP in value by £3.5 billion over the next year. Researchers found the typical adult has a staggering £598 worth of superfluous gadgets - simply collecting dust and cluttering their homes. But during the past year, smart phones, computers,…
Brits spend week a year tracking their own behaviour
Data driven Brits spend the equivalent of a WHOLE WEEK of each year tracking and analysing their behaviour, according to research.A survey of 2,000 adults revealed we typically use analytical apps and devices to monitor six parts of our lives. More than half (51 per cent) monitor their steps and movement, with 39 per…
Designers create smart boat complete with all mod cons
Always wanted to live on a boat but put off by lack of mod cons? Then how about this smart boat which comes with the latest tech innovations including smart kettle, robot vacuum cleaner and a video doorbell. Seafarers can take a break and enjoy a warming cup of tea without even flicking a switch…
Why we’re all still in love with vinyl
Polaroids are the new must have camera, man (or more specifically woman) is going to the moon again and vinyl is back with a vengeance. You could be forgiven it’s the 1960s or 1970s. Yet in fact it is 2019! Boosted by events like the recent worldwide Record Store Day and a love for nostalgia,…
Bang & Olufsen debuts £16,000 Beovision Harmony TV at Milan Design Week
Luxury electronics brand Bang & Olufsen has unveiled the Beovision Harmony at Milan Design Week - a TV experience, the manufacturer claims, 'elevates the design of any living space and fills it with spectacular sound'. When Beovision Harmony is turned off or just playing music, the thin screen rests close to the floor, partially covered…
Engineering firm Sandvik creates smash-proof, 3D printed guitar
Rock stars have been smashing guitars for decades. However, Sandvik has created what it claims is the word's first smash-proof 3D printed guitar! To demonstrate its unbreakability, the global engineering company gave the instrument to Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen. Named one of the ten greatest electric guitar players in the world by TIME Magazine,…
Review: BT Complete WiFi broadband service from £39.99 per month
Name: BT Complete WiFi Type: Broadband service Specs: Click here for full specs Price: From £39.99 per month Fed up of not being able to get WiFi throughout your home? BT has introduced what it claims to be the only service that guarantees 'wall to wall' coverage in every room of the house. Called Complete…
Almost 8 million Brits have broken gadgets in a fit of RAGE, claims survey
Research has revealed that 15 per cent of us have run out patience with our troublesome tech at one time or another and attempted to destroy it as a result! A third of us have become so fed-up by unreliable gadgets that we’ve purchased a completely new device - rather than get it repaired -…
Top 30 Mod Cons: Washing machines and fridge freezers more important than smartphones
Washing machines and fridge freezers have beaten smartphones as the items that are our most prized 'modern conveniences', a new survey shows. Researchers who polled 2,000 UK adults identified the everyday items which have most improved our lives – including sat nav devices, smartphones and electric kettles. Other items to have made things that little…
Quarter of Brits STRUGGLE with new gadgets, claims Which?
A quarter of British adults struggle to get their new gadgets to work. New research from Which? shows that just over one in four (27%) adults who received a tech gift this year at Christmas had problems using their gift. And just over in four (28%) of us were still trying to get their tech up…
