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  • The Memobottle Reusable Slim Water Bottle

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    Carrying around water is vital for staying hydrated. However, bottles just don’t cut it. Introducing the Memobottle Reusable Slim Water Bottle… More at GadgetFlow. Makes all the sense in the world.

  • Parents Against Underage Smartphones

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    Last year, Colorado father-of-five Tim Farnum gave his two youngest sons smartphones—and immediately regretted it. But he didn’t just take the phones away; he took the extra steps of forming a nonprofit called “Parents Against Underage Smartphones,” or PAUS, and… Read More ›

  • Apple’s Ambitious Bet on its Ecosystem

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    To overcome these hurdles, once every few years, companies come up with an entirely new category of products. A decade ago, it was the smartphone, then tablet computers, convertibles, smart watches and so on. Now, it’s easily understandable that not… Read More ›

  • A Prada Paperclip: $185

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    Made in Italy, Prada’s sterling silver money clip is designed in the shape of a paperclip. “Prada” embossed at one side. Polished sterling silver. 6.25cm length x 2.25cm width (approximately). Made in Italy… More here. It is a money clip… Read More ›

  • Cherish the Age of Usain Bolt

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    At which point there are probably a couple of things worth saying about Bolt. The first is that his retirement is already the most interesting point of the sporting summer. In part because he remains the greatest in an event… Read More ›

  • The World’s Ugliest Dogs

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    Ladies and gentlemen, I fear that the fix was in at this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog competition. A three-year-old Neopolitan Mastiff named Martha took the $1,500 top prize at the annual celebration of repulsiveness in Petaluma, California. No offense to… Read More ›

  • I Hate Tennis

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    I’m a young man, relatively speaking. Thirty­-six. But I wake as if 96. After two decades of sprinting, stopping on a dime, jumping high and landing hard, my body no longer feels like my body. Consequently my mind doesn’t feel… Read More ›

  • Does it matter who designed your watch?

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    Nevertheless, the post-war rise of the designer was inevitably going to reach the watch world. That it did so first in the United States probably shouldn’t be a surprise. Movado’s Museum Watch, with its dial being defined by a solitary… Read More ›

  • ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!’

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    Is it just me or will he almost certainly be our Prime Minister at some point this year?

  • It was good while it lasted

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    It doesn’t seem so long since we were pretty much mentioning expansys on a weekly basis. It was the place to go if you wanted a smartphone or tablet without having a network tweaked model. Now times have changed and… Read More ›