Category: General Gadgets
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Fairphone 2 – Repair Your Own Modular Smartphone
Fairphone is a small Dutch company startup that has big plans to change the way phones are built, not only in design but also through the resources involved in production, notably free from conflict minerals. Fairphone has managed to be the first company to ship a fully modular smart phone. The Fairphone 2 is the […]
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Eve: Valkyrie teams up with Oculus
CCP Games (the developers of Eve:Valkyrie) and Oculus have announced that all pre-orders of Rift will ship with a free copy of this game. This is great news to anybody who has already played the demo in VR and it is quite an impressive game. EVE: Valkyrie is a team-based science fiction first person multiplayer […]
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Facebook for Work Prepares to Launch Early Next Year
A version of Facebook for professionals has been long discussed; in fact The Gadget Helpline first shared the news back in November last year. Secret invites were issued to Beta test the new platform which would be simply called Facebook for Work but nothing much has been seen or heard in the past 12 months […]
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Apple Releases iPhone 6S Smart Battery Case
Apple is now selling an £80 battery boosting accessory for its most recent iPhone line-up which will allow longer use of key features including calls, Wi-Fi, 4G and Bluetooth connectivity. The Apple Smart Battery case is made of microfiber and flexible elastomer for protection and slips on and syncs with the iPhone 6 or iPhone […]
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Pocket Projection – sProjector
In this day and age we need screens, screens of all sizes and types for phones, films, games etc. Silverstar have come up with the perfect device – The sProjector allows you to take your large HD screen anywhere you like and best of all, it will fit in your pocket. Designed with a sleek […]
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Star Wars Inspired Sky+HD Remote Controls Now on Sale!
Sky TV will become one with the Force when it launches its new Sky Movies Star Wars channel on Friday 11th December. And to get its subscribers ready to join the Rebellion (or the Dark Side) the British television broadcaster has released a range of custom Sky+HD remote controls featuring designs based on popular characters […]
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Doctor Who Invades Little Big Planet 3!
The Doctor is about to travel to the one planet he’s never gone before. In fact, it’s a Little Big Planet! That’s right! Characters and creatures from BBC’s top telly sci-fi show Doctor Who have crossed over into the popular puzzle platform game for PS3 and PS4 and they’ve been regenerated to look just like […]
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Plant power – A new way to capture electricity
Although the science behind it has been studied for a while, a group of researchers at Peru’s university of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) have come up with their own way of harnessing the power of Geobacters. Geobacters harness their energy from reducing ferric iron to Magnetite through oxidisation of organic compounds. Research on Geobacters has […]
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Hoverboard Riders Undergoing Trial By Fire (Literally)
Hoverboards have been hitting the headlines lately as the self-balancing scooters are becoming quite popular in the UK. Recently though, they have been blazing their trail in more ways than just metaphorically. Over the last couple of days two reported incidents have found their way onto the internet. Footage recorded by Mr Cade, of Gulf […]
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Experience Star Wars Through VR with Google Cardboard
Internet giant Google and US cellular network Verizon have brought together budget virtual reality with this year’s most highly hyped movie to release a set of limited edition Star Wars Google Cardboard headsets. We say limited, but there are in fact 200,000 Star Wars Google Cardboard units up for grabs for Verizon subscribers but we […]
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Nintendo Account Goes Live in Japan as Club Nintendo Replacement
Nintendo of Japan has begun a test run of its successor to the beloved and recently ended Club Nintendo – a loyalty scheme called Nintendo Account. The games maker’s Japanese website has announced the new Nintendo Account scheme which (from what we can translate) will be set up through an existing Nintendo ID or quickly […]
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Thinner iPhone 7 Could Come With OLED screen and No 3.5mm Headphone Port
With the Apple iPhone 6S and 6S Plus now successfully integrated into society rumour of course has moved to the future generation iPhone 7 which is looking set to break the mould once more. The first hint that Apple will go for a major redesign with its next iPhone is based on the suggestion that […]