Month: May 2015
XSories launches Sneaker Bank range of battery chargers
How annoying is it when your phone or laptop battery dies, leaving you unable to make or receive an important call or check your emails? Well help is at hand from French company XSories with its new Sneaker Bank range of chargers. Three units are available to to keep your smartphone, tablet, laptop, and camera juiced…
Flexson VinylPlay digital turntable selected by Museum of Modern Art for tech collection
Flexson's VinylPlay digital turntable has been selected by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Design Store to appear in its NYCxDesign 2015 London Tech City collection, celebrating the best and brightest in British technology. Flexson’s London-based design team created VinylPlay to bridge the gap between, what they claim, are complex, audiophile turntables and poor-quality digital decks. Made in the…
Carphone Warehouse announces 4G network, iD
Carphone Warehouse is set to launch a new 4G network tomorrow (Tuesday 12th May) called iD. It claims to offer the best value 4G plans on the market with roaming covering 22 countries. Commenting on the launch, Graham Stapleton, UK CEO at Carphone Warehouse, said: “iD gives increased flexibility and value to customers who are getting…
Is CHIP the new Pi? $9 computer raises $600,000 and counting on Kickstarter
The $35 Rasberry Pi was truly revolutionary when it first came out. But is there now a new kid on the build-your-own PC block called CHIP. Although it's easy to get excited by Kickstarter campaigns - many of which seem to be little more than publicity campaigns for companies that have ample funding from elsewhere -…
Will Tesla Model 3 herald electric car revolution with 2017 launch?
Photo: AutoExpress Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk has revealed its Model 3 electric car could be unveiled as early as May next year, with a launch due in 2017. Speaking during the Tesla Earnings conference call he said, "don’t hold me to that month, but that’s, like — that’s our aspiration”. Anticipation around the company's new…
3D print your own pledge stones for the party leaders #ukelection2015
Should he become Prime Minister, Ed Milliband may well need a crane to move his 'Old Testament' style stone tablet into the rose garden at Number 10 Downing Street. So the guys at 3D printing company CEL have come up with a more modern (and possibly replaceable) solution. The 3D printed version of the stone tablet could…
Elon Musk’s Tesla unveils Powerwall – batteries to power the home
Want to be able to power your home in the event of a blackout? US electric carmaker Tesla Motors has unveiled batteries that can power homes and businesses as it attempts to expand its business beyond electric cars. Chief executive Elon Musk announced the firm would build batteries that store solar energy and serve as…
Yangyang fembot unveiled at Beijing conference – looks a bit like Sarah Palin!
A creepy new female robot called Yangyang has been unveiled in Beijing at the Global Mobile Internet conference - a conference aimed at getting younger people into robotics. A joint project between Japanese robot guru Hiroshi Ishiguro and Shanghai robotics professor Song Yang, the young robot can shake your hand and accept a hug. Dressed in…
Tokyo Institute of Technology demonstrates world first swimming robot, the Swumanoid
Robots aren't just being used on dry land to carry out various tasks. The Nakashima Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed the world's first swimming robot, nicknamed the Swumanoid. In this case, the robot is actuated by 20 motors and uses all four limbs to get across the body of water (albeit…
‘How Old Do I Look’ goes viral – Microsoft’s age and gender tool
It seems quite a while since anyone got excited by anything that Microsoft has done. But here's a clever little website that is not surprisingly going viral on social media. Called How Old, it allows you to take a picture from your photo library and 'find out' from the #HowOldRobot how old it thinks you…