Cheats never prosper – not even with wearable tech
Greek philosopher Sophocles may famously have preferred to fail with honour than win by cheating but he had clearly never come across wearable tech....
Quitbit – because wearable tech’s not just for life
“It doesn’t time your run. It’s for when your time runs out.” So runs the tagline for quite the most charmingly morbid piece of wearable tech we’ve...
Ingestibles, embeddables and more – how medicine is getting smart
Wearable technology may be just starting to make its mark on the world of health. But already there is a new wave of technology waiting to take...
Rehumanise your browsing with winning Chrome extension
If you despair at the media venom these days whenever the issue of refugees comes up, then help is at hand. Agency, a not-for-profit creative studio...
Chuckie Egg at the ready – it’s the Recreated ZX Spectrum
While your average digital watch probably contains more computing power than the ZXSpectrum, for British people of a certain age the perma-crashing,...
Hearable technology – or why the ear is the new wrist
Picture your average tech-friendly jogger: they’ve got the latest running shoes, an Apple Watch or Fitbit Surge to measure heart rate and music...
World’s nerdiest jacket causes crowdfunding storm
Tablets are extremely useful but unless you’ve got jeans the size of houses then they do raise something of a storage problem when you’re out and...
Pet + selfies + internet = tech pet heaven
Do you love pets? Sure! Do you adore selfies? Hell yes. Then you, my friend, will surely appreciate the PetBot, aka “The World’s First Smart Device...
What do we want from wearable tech? No one really knows. Yet
Screenwriter William Goldman famously remarked in his book about Hollywood, Adventures in the Screen Trade, that “Nobody knows anything.” “Not one...
Fancy a trip to Unplanned Pregnancy? Moravian website goes Google Translate crazy
Google Translate is a wonderfully useful tool. And yet we all know it has its limits. Well, maybe not all of us: The Register reports that a new...
Careful with that selfie – Friendly Score uses social media for credit ratings
Remember when social media was fun? Well you might not for much longer, thanks to a new tech startup that uses social media to calculate your credit...
The Dating Skills Smartwatch may be a joke – but wearable dating is no laughing matter
Imagine a smartwatch that uses subliminal messaging to programme your brain to be better at picking up members of the opposite sex. Now combine that...
Your next holiday: up a 20 km space elevator
Anyone with vertigo best look away now: Canadian space and defence company Thoth Technology has been granted a US patent for a “space elevator” that...
Get Buddy and your dog will be significantly more high tech than you
All dog owners will know that nothing is enough for Fido / Spot / Rufus. Which makes the new tech-crazy Buddy dog collar from Squeaker, currently...
Big Brother boss could be watching you: the rise of wearable tracking technology at work
Elite sportsmen have pioneered the use of wearable technology since the idea was little more than glint in the eye of some Google product...
Swedish workers swap swipe card for microchip; seem very happy
Having microchips implanted under our skin is a common future nightmare scenario, the stuff of J. G. Ballard novels and low-budget thrillers. For...
Wearables enable bovine bunch to definitely not have a cow
Wearable technology is great, obviously, but until now it has lacked a certain bovine component. The University of Calgary - and in particular...
Senior citizens are ready to embrace mobile health – but usability is key
It is something of an irony that those who could probably benefit most from mobile health - older people, who tend to suffer more health...
Giant vending machine promises death of traditional village life. Maybe
What looks like a village shop, works like a village shop but isn’t a village shop? Well, it you’re in Clifton in Derbyshire then the answer is a...
Diggers, excavators and more: it’s the site of your childhood dreams
If you were anything like us, then a large percentage of your childhood dreams probably revolved around diggers and JCBs. If so, then may we...
It beats a trip to the local brick factory: AR, VR and wearable technology in schools
For children in the 1980s school trips typically involved a trip to a local factory or - if you were really lucky - a day trip to France,...