Category: What to buy

Games with a female protagonist.

Top 5 new games with a female protagonist

Some game designers are bucking the trend and bringing us kick-ass games led by women, for women (and men, if they know what’s good for them) to enjoy. Here are five of our favourite new games with a female protagonist for you to play with pride…

5 great reasons not to buy the Apple Watch.

5 great reasons to not buy an Apple Watch

If you’re vaguely interested in the Apple Watch yet not sure whether it’s the best use of your money, allow us to play devil’s advocate and offer up five great reasons to not buy an iWatch, despite the hype…

Reasons to buy an Apple Watch: Cutting-edge tech.

5 great reasons to buy an Apple Watch

If you still need to justify the purchase to yourself, your partner, or anyone else, though, here are five solid reasons to buy an Apple Watch…

Waterfield suede MacBook jacket

7 best cases (so far) for the new MacBook

The trouble with being the earliest of early adopters is that when you get your gleaming new piece of kit and want to guard it with all the passion of a tiger mom, there are barely any cases on the market yet to do the job. So in the interests of protecting your thinner-than-ever new MacBook 12″, we’ve hunted out the best/only cases and sleeves currently available for it.

Motorola Moto E 2015 review: the ideal entry-level 4G Android phone

Every budget handset released in the last year has been compared with Motorola's super-cheap Moto E, often unfavourably. It's considered one of the best entry-level Android handsets out there, and the 2015 update seeks to cement that position by adding 4G, a selfie camera and a few more little upgrades. But a year on from the…

Honor 6 Plus review: the best phone you’ve never heard of

If you haven't heard of a smartphone brand called Honor, you're not alone. Just about everyone I've mentioned it to looks baffled. That's because it's pretty new, having launched in the UK late last year as a sub-brand of the Chinese supergiant Huawei. Granted, not many people on these shores know Huawei either, but it's…

Wholly cow: our hands-on review of the leather-clad LG G4

Today saw the synchronised world launch of LG's new flagship Android phone, the LG G4, and we were at the London leg to give it a try. Hosted by Gabby Logan, the event featured the big cheeses of LG Europe talking about the phone, plus some awkward moments - the G4 has leaked twice, and when LG…

New beauty products for Summer 2015 from Too Faced

The Too Faced Summer releases are a mix of functional and fun, with a little bit of novelty thrown in for good measure.  The focus is mostly on palettes, with some additional shades of their Melted lipsticks being added with a metallic twist; not sure I can pull off a metallic lip without looking like…

Breast milk ice cream to celebrate the royal baby? We’ll pass, thanks

There are a whole load of daft brand promotions going on to ‘celebrate’ the new royal baby, but this one made us the queasiest. British ice-cream brand The Licktators (previously known as The Icecreamists) have resurrected their infamous breast milk ice cream in honour of the impending arrival of our pint-sized prince or princess.