The Raspberry Pi gets smaller

“Today, I’m pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of Raspberry Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5. Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family, featuring: A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAMA micro-SD card slotA mini-HDMI socket […]

Moving away from the upgrade culture

“A stellar battery is something that comes with a product built for longevity. Perhaps you remember the Nokia 3310. Not only could this phone go for days without charging, but it could also survive being dropped again and again. You won’t find many recent phones with the same durability. Beyond the detriments to battery power […]

At source restrictions on mobile adverts

“EE, Britain’s biggest mobile operator, is considering introducing technology that will hand smartphone users the power to control the advertising they see online, in a clampdown that would cause major upheaval in the £2bn mobile advertising market.Olaf Swantee, EE’s chief executive, has launched a strategic review that will decide whether the operator should help its […]

Phone freedom

“Without a screen or a keypad, the design of this phone aims to strip away all the excess functions of a modern mobile phone and only keep its most fundamental parts. As such, the device can also serve as a wallet or a business card case, allowing one to carry less in the pockets.” Interesting […]

on the facebook

“Lately I’ve been thinking about how good Facebook is at what it does, and how it has become a unique cultural venue for people to write and be read and to stay in touch with casual acquaintances across gaps in time and space. There have always been ways of staying in touch with people you […]

4GEE Capture Cam

“If you like sharing all the fun moments in life with friends and family, the light and wearable 4GEE Capture Cam will take that sharing to a whole new level – by letting you share them as they happen. It’s so small and light you can clip it onto your bag or jacket and you’ll […]

Disney apps, songs, movies and books for £9.99/month

I’m not so much interested in this particular service, but the fact that someone has finally seen the potential of bundling various media into one subscription. Will we at some point see a subscription service from the likes of Apple or Google that covers films, TV shows, books and music? It sounds incredibly difficult to […]

Two men bought the same watch on the same day. One paid $950,000 more than the other

“Say you’re on the hunt for one of Rolex’s greatest watches – arguably the pinnacle of the Crown’s 20th century design – the reference 6062 triple calendar moon-phase. And say you’ve got your heart set on a pink gold example with a star dial, the so-called “Stelline.” Well, you’d be in luck because this past […]

The 2017 FIAT® 124 Spider

I can’t remember the last time I liked the look of a new Fiat, but the new Spider is lovely. More here.

A £99 Moto G. Why would you buy anything else?

I recently purchased a Moto G (3rd generation) from Vodafone for £99. It required unlocking, which was completed on eBay in 3 minutes, for £3 and I then had a phone that ticks almost all of the boxes for almost all of the users. The camera isn’t great at all, but for everything else the […]