Month: October 2014
The Top 10 PS4 games for Christmas 2014
[nextpage title="Next"] Christmas is getting closer so it is time to start thinking about what games will be the best under the Christmas Tree. There's going to be a tonne of releases in the run-up to the big day, so here's what we'll be playing. [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare It's as…
Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Fitbit Surge announced
Fitbit has announced three new fitness-tracking wristbands - read on for all of the details! In an upgrade from the likes of the Fitbit Flex, the new devices all feature a display, of sorts - and new for Fitbit's product line, the Charge HR and Surge both feature heart rate monitoring tech (hence, HR). Here's…
Nissan put a car inside a Zorb, for some reason
Nissan has a new car to promote! The Nissan Note, which is definitely larger than Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, is apparently big on safety features - so to highlight this the company put the car inside a massive inflatable ball, and rolled it down a hill. The "Zorb" was apparently 18m in circumference. We're just…
Could retailers thwart Apple’s Apple Pay plans?
Apple Pay has recently launched in the United States, but the launch isn't going entirely smoothly: new details have emerged about retailers refusing to support the new payment system. According to BGR a number of big name US shops, including Walmart, Best Buy and CVS have withdrawn support for Apple Pay, despite initially supporting it.…
The UK top 10 video games chart: FIFA top of the table again
[nextpage title="Next"] FIFA 15 holds on to the No.1 spot for a fifth consecutive week, the most of any title so far this year. EA titles have been at No.1 for 18 out of the 43 weeks so far in 2014, while for the whole of 2013 they only managed a total of 10 weeks.…
The Lego Great Ball Contraption is the best thing you will see today
Lego is brilliant - and we don't need to tell you that. Over the weekend though, I found this - which takes Lego to the next level, and uses its simple building blocks to make something amazing. Meet the Great Ball Contraption. The premise is pretty simple: The goal is to build a machine that…
The Digest: Web inventor ‘staggered’ by hateful people online are… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Tim Berners-Lee: hateful people on the web are 'staggering' | The Guardian "Sir Tim Berners-Lee has expressed sadness that the web has mirrored the dark side of humanity, as well as enabling its wonderful side to flourish. The developer, who created the web in 1990 while working for the particle collider project Cern…
Is Sony planning a 12″ tablet?
The notoriously unreliable Taiwan Digitimes is reporting that Sony could be planning a 12" tablet. Hmm. According to the short report: "Sony Mobile Communications will launch a 12-inch tablet in the first quarter of 2015. Several other vendors are also developing large-size tablets for launch in the first or second quarters, according to Taiwan-based supply…
Carebnb imitates Airbnb to raise money for Ebola treatment
A clever fundraising campaign has taken its cues from accommodation sharing website Airbnb in a bid to raise cash to help stop Ebola. Take a look at Carebnb - whilst at first glance it may look like a website for a particularly depressing holiday, its actually pretty clever. Browse through the "listings" and find out…
Google opens up some satellite data to good causes
A few months ago Google bought satellite imagery company Skybox Imaging, which offers companies high quality satellite images at a price... but now it seems that the company will be participating in some corporate space-age responsibility, and offering some of its data for free. In a blog post for the company, Sky Box co-founder Julian…