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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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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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 […]