Hands on with Google’s Buzz (kill)

The idea sounds great: let people connect to those they’ve emailed using their Google account. Let them share Twitter updates, show pages they’ve visited, videos they’ve watched on YouTube and swap more online content than ever before. Yes, it’s a lovely idea, but, in practise, it has proved to be a dramatic failure.When Buzz was launched, a Google algorithm selected up to... Read more

5 free iPhone apps for a greener life!

Love Food Hate WasteDid you know the average household in Scotland throws away £430 worth of food a year? That’s almost enough to buy an iPad with! So, whether you’re appalled at food waste, or just on an economy drive, the free app from the Scottish Love Food Hate Waste campaign is worth downloading (after all, it’s free!) One of its most useful attributes is the portion planner.... Read more

Olympus camera is tough cookie (with a colourful shell)

Anyone who’s seen the adverts for those tough kids’ cameras, where the little boy tosses the camera across the garden, runs it under the tap and still manages to take a very passable snap of his pet dog and thought; “hmm, wish they did one of those for grown-ups”, need wish no more. Olympus has put together a nifty package in the shape of the Mju TOUGH-3000, which boasts the... Read more

Parrot AR.Drone – When video games become reality

We first mentioned Parrot’s AR.Drone in our review of CES 2010 back in January, but since it’s appearance at the Las Vegas show there’s been a growing buzz around the iPhone controlled quadricopter as geeks of all shapes and sizes have begun to get excited about its release later this year.Parrot are the world-leaders in wireless products for mobile phones and for... Read more

Event review: ‘Canon At The Movies’

Latest Gadgets were invited along to the “Canon At The Movies” Event, held at BAFTA in the heart of London Town. I headed down slightly unsure of what to expect, a sense of confusion which heightened when I and all the other assembled journalists were ushered into the cinema for multimedia presentation and popcorn. However once the Head of Sales took the stage, all became clear.... Read more

Further details released about X2’s iTablet

Coming hot of the heels of Apple’s iPad announcement, UK-based computer supplier X2 has announced their new powerful range of portable tablets, called the iTablet. They may well have borrowed the ”I” but this is one of the only similarities between the iTablet and iPad. Apple and many other companies have recently decided that there is a need for device that falls somewhere between... Read more

The Mini 5, Dell’s answer to the iPad?

While Apple strive to convince the world that the next big gadget is the iPad, a device that attempts to wedge itself into the market between a smartphone and a laptop, Dell have declared that a gizmo sized between a smartphone and a tablet is the true portable of the future – a Mini 5.The device, which features a five-inch, multitouch screen (at 800×480 resolution) and... Read more

Come As You Are – The Nirvana Smartphone

In a world of increasingly sophisticated and even pointless developments in mobile phone technology (yes I’m looking at you translucent phone) it takes more and more for mobile phone ideas to stand out. The Nirvana phone concept from Citrix, whilst not exactly new, does manage to do this by taking some of the more interesting possibilities of advancements in mobile phone technology... Read more

Tunebug Shake: Surround sound in your bike helmet

There’s nothing nicer than the open road and some seriously corny tunes to free the mind and relax the spirit, but bicyclists tend to miss out on this pleasure. They need to be constantly aware of the surrounding traffic, so headphones are not an option, and stick on bike speakers tend to provide tinny audio- when you can hear them at all, over the sounds of street. TuneBug aims to... Read more

Tablets: Five of the best

It is officially tablet season with every brand, large and small, announcing a new model with mind-boggling specifications day by day and if you simply must have one now, here is a rundown of our top five: Best for design: Apple iPad Mighty Apple rarely get it wrong when it comes to style and the iPad is no exception. A spectacular minimalist lightweight design, the iPad weighs just... Read more