Gadgets & Gizmos

Dash High Speed RC Boat: Cut a dash on the boating lake

Dash High Speed RC Boat: Cut a dash on the boating lake

On holiday in Suffolk this summer, I was surprised at just how popular the model boating lakes in seaside towns such as Aldeburgh were with small and big kids alike. Most of them were populated by sedate little wooden boats that meandered along – but I’m wishing I’d had the Dash High Speed RC Boat with me, so we could have put the cat among…

Proporta and Onanoff team up to keep your cables tidier

Proporta and Onanoff team up to keep your cables tidier

Even though we haven’t even had Halloween yet, there’s already been a lot of talk about Christmas – so why not move straight on to New Year’s resolutions? So if you’re going to resolve to be tidier and more organised in the New Year, why not make an early start, with the help of mobile device and gadget accessory manufacturer Proporta? Proporta has teamed up…

Grower’s Cup: Coffee on the go

Grower’s Cup: Coffee on the go

I won’t start with a coffee pun as they’ve all bean done – especially at comedy roasts (sorry) but I do love my coffee. In fact judging by the number of coffee shops around me pretty much everyone in Central London loves the stuff. But what if you’re out and about and dying for a quality cup? Well like I just said there are coffee…

New vacuum from Vax is on the cards

New vacuum from Vax is on the cards

A gadget made out of cardboard? Are you mad? That was my first thought when I found out about the cardboard Vax. I checked the date – no, not April 1 so maybe it wasn’t a joke. And, aside from what you read on Latest Gadgets, I know not to believe everything I read on the internet. But after some digging around, I have found…

Dyson promises some hot stuff this winter with the Hot fan heater

Dyson promises some hot stuff this winter with the Hot fan heater

As I write this, the weather forecast is promising another week of unseasonably warm temperatures. However, when winter finally comes, the experts are warning us that it will bring with it some far-from-average low temperatures, so the latest release from Dyson could well be high on many a winter shopping list. The new Dyson Hot fan heater hardly looks like your average fan heater –…

Native Instruments KONTROL S2: DJing on a diet

Native Instruments KONTROL S2: DJing on a diet

DJing is a lot lot more than “playing someone else’s records and looking cool in front of a crowd” although admittedly that is a large part of it. Continued innovation in the field has turned DJing into an artform in its own right and it’s very hard to argue with the stance that the turntable is a legitimate musical instrument in it’s own right. Even…

Wakey Wakey Shine and Rise: The Philips Light Alarm clock

Wakey Wakey Shine and Rise: The Philips Light Alarm clock

As someone who gets up at 5 am pretty much every morning, I appreciate a good alarm clock. Being rudely jolted out of bed every morning by the “Time’s Up” siren from GoldenEye is pretty effective but it also puts me in a foul mood for at least a couple of house so there has to be a better way. I’ve looked at (and loved)…

Electronic Dictionary Bookmark : e-reading functionality in an analogue world

Electronic Dictionary Bookmark : e-reading functionality in an analogue world

I’m a sesquipedalian. If you need to look that up don’t worry – it means I’m a prentious fool (more technically it means I’m given to using long words but they are pretty much one and the same). Whilst other kids had friends and sporting activities to busy themselves with, I spent countless hours nose deep in books and a good deal of that time…

VO5 Extreme Style Perfect Cut Hair Clippers review

VO5 Extreme Style Perfect Cut Hair Clippers review

Perhaps we’re vain (or not bald), but at LatestGadgets, we’re unlike the 50%+ of men who cut their hair at home. Realistically, it’s probably because we don’t trust ourselves with clippers – it’s particularly difficult to do the bit behind your hair when you 1.) Can’t see it, 2.) Have to use an annoying grip. Luckily, the VO5 Extreme Style Perfect Cut Hair Clippers arrived…

Wacom’s wireless interactive Bamboo pen tablets

Wacom’s wireless interactive Bamboo pen tablets

With people posting the view from their office window, their cat asleep on their pillow, or the plate of food they consumed for breakfast, sharing digital images with others has almost become a national obsession. Given this rapid rise in posting to the world our day’s proceedings, no matter how mundane or exciting, technology manufacturers are increasingly looking for ways us to execute our national…

US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories

US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories

In the increasingly evolving world of technology and gadgets, manufacturers frequently have to explore other avenues in order to thwart the otherwise inevitable prospect of liquidation from knocking at their doors. The latest electronics company to delve into fresh territory is US Robotics, known primarily for producing high-speed modems in the 80s. Given that modems that were considered high-speed in the 80s have been diminishing…

The Jellyfish Mood Tank: Because goldfish are so yesterday!

The Jellyfish Mood Tank: Because goldfish are so yesterday!

Goldfish are one of the most popular pets in the world. Their inexpensiveness, lack of upkeep and being a decorative addition in a room, means that most people have a goldfish at some point in their lives. They do have a tendency to die extremely easily through, leaving every member of the house melancholically pining over their late goldfish. RED5 have apparently come with an…

Make your iPhone ‘stand out from the crowd’ with a Peelzone vinyl ‘Peel’

Make your iPhone ‘stand out from the crowd’ with a Peelzone vinyl ‘Peel’

I can imagine this latest launch of gadgetry accessories will be a big hit with kids in the playground and perhaps the big kids in life. Peelzone has announced the launch of an array of funky, custom-made and personalised ‘Peels’ – that’s vinyl  accessories that can be adorned on tablets, handheld game consoles, mobile phones and other gadgets, with no other purpose than simply sprucing…

Samsung and 14 Bike co team up to make tablet bike holder

Samsung and 14 Bike co team up to make tablet bike holder

If you live in a built up urban area with a proliferation of cool kids it’s pretty hard not notice the sea of cool kids on single speed bicycles – and the even cooler kids on fixed gear bicycles. And it’s also pretty hard not to notice all the cool kids wandering around with tablet computers. So why oh why can’t their worlds collide? And…

Native Instruments lower barriers to beat making with MASCHINE MIKRO

Native Instruments lower barriers to beat making with MASCHINE MIKRO

Like laying down beats? I know I do. One of the classic pieces of kit for beat freaks is an Akai MPC, a wonderful machine that “got out of the way” and let you focus on machine music. Whilst it’s perfectly possible to make lots of wild and interesting music on a range of devices, lots of it intrinsically feels like hardware or software rather…