Tired of having sand kicked in your face? Of being the butt of jokes at parties? Well fret no longer, dear reader, because we have the very solution you’ve been looking for. While others may seek recognition through art, music or culture, we’re going to give you the ultimate status badge, one which will ensure respect if not admiration from the crowd.
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Got yourself a brand new shiny smartphone? Does it come with IR remote control functionality built-in, like the Galaxy S4 or the HTC One? If so you might want to engage with your community, make new friends and perhaps visit your local friendly police offices via a new commercial app available on the Play store.
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Oh sweet Blackberry, where did it all go wrong? RIM (parent company of Blackberry) announced recently that it is selling the company for the bargain basement price of $4.7 billion (the company once had revenues of over $19 billion in a single year). The company will be taken over by a group of Canadian private equity firms, but what happens next is anybody’s guess. The future of the Blackberry brand is now uncertain, astonishing when you remember it was once…
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So, do you think there’s enough digital technology in your life? Maybe you could do with a little bit more? Forget about kitchens, cars, living room curtains, how about your wardrobe? Wouldn’t it be great to have some wearable accessories that also take advantage of today’s tech? Of course it would.
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One of the most interesting things we’ve come across in a long time is something you might have never thought about. Ever heard of an inflatable concert hall that could travel with you anywhere around the world? No? Well, you have now. You can thank us later for making you smarter than you were 5 seconds ago.
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There are a lot of portable chargers available for smartphones. If your phone runs out of juice while out and about just pull out a portable charger and you’re good to go, right? But what if your smartphone supports wireless charging? Wouldn’t it be much better to have a portable charger that could charge your phone without having to connect any cables?
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Filmillion – cool online game is a 20 questions for movies – Ever played 20 questions? Fun… Garmin HUD gives your car GPS some cool cockpit style – Everyone wants to be cool, right?… Sync Charge Multi Tool – Swiss Knife charging block gets you out of trouble – It’s a sad sign of the times when… What We Watch – fascinating…
Read MoreEver played 20 questions? Fun isn’t it? Well just recently I came across a site called Filmillion, which is an online version of that game focused on movies. Basically, the website requires that you answer 30 questions to help guess the movie you’re thinking about, and would you believe that it actually works? I kid you not.
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Everyone wants to be cool, right? Like Top Gun cool. So it’s hardly surprising that the gadget makers spend so much time trying to fulfill our fantasies by producing stuff which a few years ago would be firmly in the science fiction category. And sometimes, the gear is actually not bad, even by Hollywood standards.
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It’s a sad sign of the times when you notice just how much time we spend trying to keep all our devices charged up and ready to go. In fact it’s actually quite embarrassing, and sometimes feels like I’m actually doing a full time job running around grabbing cables, adapters, power leads and the rest. A sort of demeaning battery slavery. Surely gadgets are there to serve us, not the other way round?
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YouTube is a revolution all right, and we probably haven’t seen half of what it’s going to evolve into eventually. But even now it’s clear that the mega popular video site dominates across the world in a way that no other medium, even television, has ever done. How else to explain the mind-boggling 1.8 billion views of a Korean pop music video?
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A scant four months after we first broke the news that Yahoo! has implemented a bizarre system of recycling old email addresses once users close their account, things have got a whole lot worse. As we predicted at the time in our report, ‘this seems like one of the most bizarre things we’ve heard for a long time, and something which is potentially open to massive abuse if people aren’t careful.’
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Swimming is one of the best exercises for your whole body, and not only that, it’s also fun. Most kids love swimming, and any kind of water based activities just grab their attention. However, children can get really frustrated with regular swim goggles because without a comfortable strap you can’t have good fitting goggles, and without good fitting goggles you get water into your eyes, which is nasty.
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In one of the most incredibly stupid moves of any manufacturer in recent years, it appears that Samsung has integrated region locking on their new line of Galaxy Note 3 mobile phones. Yes that’s right, they have locked the handset so if you travel outside of your region (i.e. USA, Europe, Asia etc) you will NOT be able to use a local SIM card to make cheaper calls and save on roaming. [Update: Gigaom reports on a follow up from…
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What is it about the sight of a bit of chrome and black leatherette that makes camera equipment so exotic and appealing? Is it our ingrained memories of the early days of photography, when trudging around the world clutching these frail things called personal cameras was all the rage? Snapping photos of famous landmarks was so much fun back then.
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