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Hands On Video: Sony Xperia Z Smartphone

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The main talking point from this year’s Sony CES press event was the launch of their new, flagship, smartphone – the Sony Xperia Z. The phone features a 5” Full HD display and is powered by the Snapdragon 1.5GHz S4 Pro quad-core processor. Building on the company’s strong history of digital…

UrbanHello: Giving the home phone some smarts

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Adding “smart” to the home phone seems like an obvious leap, especially since the proliferation on clever mobile phones has been so succesful. Then again with such wonderful mobiles and with companies such as ePure replicating the home phone experience on the mobile perhaps the home phone is a thing…

CES 2013 Video: HAPIfork, the World’s first ‘smart fork’

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As a gadget site, we  thought we’d be the only ones interested in something as bonkers sounding as a ‘smart fork’ – but as it turns out, the World’s media descended upon this French company and their unique new fork. Designed by Jacques Lepine, HAPIfork, the world’s first smart connected fork,…

iRobot Mirra 530 and Looj 330 Pool and Gutter Cleaners: Robot Chores

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Pool cleaning isn’t normally the first type of manual labour (or in some parts of California, Manuel labour) that I would assume would be under threat from robots. According to my knowledge, which is based solely on movies, pool cleaners are good looking wayward men in their early 20s who…

CES Unveiled 2013: Parrot Flower Power, Canopy Sensus Case & Trakdot Luggage Tracker

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It’s that time of year again when the majority of UK press and tech industry head out to Las Vegas for CES. As ever, the flight from Gatwick was filled with now familiar faces, including the team from Pure Digital as well as the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones. Having attempted to…

Electrolux Infisight and Zanussi QUADRO: Take your home cooking up a notch.

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We recently did a feature on fitness gadget that covered all sorts of bits and bobs that will help you stay trim for 2013. However as I’m sure you know “great abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym” so we thought we’d also look at two new…

Gamestick: SmartTV casual gaming console

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Used to be that you’d have to fly out to CES to catch a glimpse of the future. Fortunately now you can save on your carbon footprint and simply head on to Kickstarter and marvel at what could be. Even better you can actively make a difference and bring amazing…

CES 2013 Preview: It gets bigger, faster, better

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It’s that time of year again. No not for endless ridiculous articles about New Year’s resolutions for the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where all the gadget manufacturers large and small gather together and conspire to make you feel bad about all the brand new electronics you *just* got…

Top Fitness Gadgets for 2013

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I live alongside a canal, which is a prime running route and these past few days I’ve seen an exponential increase in people giving jogging a go, determined to “finally fit into those jeans”, or some other long-held dream. The numbers gradually dwindle over the month and by early March…

Getting Things Done: Great productivity apps for the New Year

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I always marvel at people who “get things done” and have lives that run like a well-oiled machine. Especially when my life seems to be a series of badly timed misadventures, barely held together with duct tape. The arbitrary change in calendar is as good a time as any to…

YPlan: Do something different tonight

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“What are you up to tonight?” That can be a difficult question at any time of year, but trapped in the hinterland between Christmas and New Year it can be especially difficult to answer. There are those of us that run their social lives with military precision, carefully co-ordinating between…

Mothercare App Review: Mobile Mums

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Parenting is literally as old as humanity so it’s tempting to think we’ve got it right by now. However, the magic of technology means you can always always make something a little bit better and that’s what Mothercare have done with their new smartphone app. You might think that linking…