Posts Tagged ‘design’

UrbanHello: Giving the home phone some smarts

UrbanHello: Giving the home phone some smarts

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…

Opalum Flow 1010: Understated statement speakers

Opalum Flow 1010: Understated statement speakers

If you like your technology to match, your gadgets to “hang” and your wires disguised, the new Flow 1010 “floating” speakers may just grab your attention.     Badged as “the TV’s new best friend” by its manufacturer, Scandinavian audio company Opalum, these diminutive, yet statement speakers are designed to…

EchoStar Ultra Slim Box DTR

EchoStar Ultra Slim Box  DTR

EchoStar invited us to oogle the world’s slimmest digital TV recorder (DTR) the Ultra Slim Box (or the slightly less alluring name of HDT-610R), which crams a tonne of features inside a 14mm aluminium chassis. If you’re into watching broadcast TV the Freeview+ HD Ultra Slim Box offers consumers subscription…

Currys collaborates with fashion designer

Currys collaborates with fashion designer

We do not usually talk fashion here at LG Towers but London Fashion Week is upon us. To the men reading this, that means catwalk models stomping up and down the runway and you laugh uncontrollably at the insane clothes. If I said there is a dress made entirely of…

Elipson relaunch tribute to BS50 loudspeaker design

Elipson relaunch tribute to BS50 loudspeaker design

In a nice move to celebrate its 60th birthday, earlier this week Elipson announced that it is honouring the landmark models that have shaped its history leading a market centred around the fusion of lifestyle design and high quality audio engineering. So, the first Elipson speaker to do very well…

Great Gadgets & Gifts for Her

Great Gadgets & Gifts for Her

Forget the usual perfume or underwear and think outside the box this year with a few gadget ideas… Zeo Sleep Manager Do you have a sister or partner who is always looking for way to improve her health and wellbeing? The Zeo Sleep Manager Mobile (£89) uses the latest technology…

Griffin’s Elan Form Chilewich for iPhone 4 and 4

Griffin’s Elan Form Chilewich for iPhone 4 and 4

I remember way back in 2007 when it was enough to simply have an iPhone and people’s eyes would raise in wonder. However Apple’s smash hit phone has been so successful it’s borderline ubiquitous. If you love attention as much as I do, you will have dipped into the weird…

Pantone app: Designers get a world of colours on their mobiles

Pantone app: Designers get a world of colours on their mobiles

Pantone colours are a vital tool for the designer – quote a Pantone colour to a repro house or printer and you can be assured that what comes out in your finished product will be the colour you were expecting. So, it’s no surprise that Pantone colours have already been…

RetroTouch: Let there be light – wirefree light

RetroTouch: Let there be light – wirefree light

Usually, any changes to the lighting in your home have to be carried out by a qualified electrician, which can be a pricey and time-consuming affair, especially if you have to take time off work to wait for them to appear. Not only that, but if you want to add…

Doro: Accessible mobile phones for the elderly

Doro: Accessible mobile phones for the elderly

Latest Gadgets had a little bit of a sit down chat over olives with Doro MD Chris Millington about their new range of accessible mobile phones. There are few things more sexy in the tech world than the Dieter Rams-a-riffic iPhone 4, with it’s shiny mix of metal and glass….

Golla D-SLR and tablet bags review

Golla D-SLR and tablet bags review

You want to keep your gadgets safe… of course you do. But does everything protective have to look so drab. Golla think different and have launched a range of fun, colourful yet (importantly) functional bags and cases. As the label and beautiful models scream “Rule your world by colouring it.”…

STM jet laptop bag review

STM jet laptop bag review

Laptops these days are, more often than not, powerful enough to serve as a desktop replacement. For the average consumer, the extra horsepower in a desktop system simply isn’t needed.  And the beautiful thing about a laptop – you can pack it up and take it with you. However, the…