Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Embrace+: Colour Changing Notification Bracelet

Embrace+: Colour Changing Notification Bracelet

Perfect for those moments when that handy flashing green light on your smartphone isn’t quite enough information: The Embrace+ reveals exactly what type of communication you’ve just received without so much as glancing at your handset. We’ve all been there; broken meetings, conversations and gatherings to check our phone… Only…

Sony Xperia Z Review Roundup

Sony Xperia Z Review Roundup

We had a play with Sony Xperia Z, most of which involved dunking the giant smartphone into tanks of water and marvelling at how it still functioned. Packing a huge screen, great camera and a zippy processor it’s everything you want from a modern Android smartphone. What do the experts…

23snaps: Adorable Digital Memory Books

23snaps: Adorable Digital Memory Books

Some of us may use Facebook to document our child’s milestones, achievements, and so on, but are probably well aware that a) our non-child-interested contacts probably sigh every time they find out that little Johnny or Jemima has lost a tooth, learned a new word or done something ‘soooo cute!’…

Accel’s Voyager: Connected Car Smartphone Technology

Accel’s Voyager: Connected Car Smartphone Technology

Considering integrated GPS and mobile telephony has been around for many years now, we all have something we use in our cars for hands free communications or navigation, via either Bluetooth connectivity or built right into the car’s console display system. Either way, the technology is no stranger. However, in…

Gamestick: SmartTV casual gaming console

Gamestick: SmartTV casual gaming console

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…

Sphero: Roll with IT

Sphero: Roll with IT

Among Michael Bay’s many crimes, first and foremost in my mind is “making robots boring”. Even when I learned as a child that robots existed and mostly put together cars, there was still a fascination with them until Bay managed to make “giant robots fighting” into an epic three-part snoozefest….

Hue light up my life – Philips lightbulb technology

Hue light up my life – Philips lightbulb technology

I spent almost two hours talking about lightbulbs yesterday and didn’t yawn once. “Impossible” you cry, but oddly enough it’s true. Philips invited me into a tucked away Central London to meet “hue”, the latest and greatest in lightbulb technology. Philips first started making lightbulbs 121 years ago and haven’t…

AOC myPlay: Supersize your mobile’s display

AOC myPlay: Supersize your mobile’s display

Ever get fed up of the miniscule size of your Smartphone’s display? Have you dreamt of a larger screen on your tablet? With AOC’s new 27” myPlay i2757Fm display monitor, you can plug your Android-compatible gadget in to see your screen in large HD quality. The myPlay i2757Fm is a…

ASUS PadFone 2: Two Become One

ASUS PadFone 2: Two Become One

Asus have unveiled the PadFone 2, the follow-up to the successful original PadFone. Combining an Android smartphone and a dockable tablet for ultimate mobile flexibility, this new PadFone model comes with a range of specifications designed to improve performance and improve the user experience. If you’re wondering what a PadFone…

Best Accessibility Gadgets for the Visually Impaired

Best Accessibility Gadgets for the Visually Impaired

In 2011 there were approximately 360,000 people registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK, as stated by the charity Action For Blind People. Given the prolific number of people in Britain who are living with sight loss and the technological advances that are occurring by a seemingly daily…

“Witch With No Name” App Review

“Witch With No Name” App Review

It was with some trepidation that I offered up the app The Witch with No Name to my six year old. Anyone with a six-year-old will know why – one minute they are asking to take a bunch of cuddly toys to bed with them, the next they eschew anything…

ZTE Grand X: Redefining medium range

ZTE Grand X: Redefining medium range

I’ve been meeting with ZTE on and off for the past few years to play with their latest handsets. Normally they trot out a decent, affordable but decidedly low-end handset like the F930 or the ZTE racer. Nice but nothing to write home about. But it’s clear from conversations with…