IKEA are entering the smart lighting market with a very aggressively priced offering. The new range of smart lighting from IKEA will go on sale this month at IKEA shops around the globe and could give some of the existing companies in the space serious competition. The new range of products uses the zigbee protocol […]
Smart homes, IoT, wearables, AI and a plethora of other technologies have become accessible and affordable for people over the last couple of years. But how smart are they really? One user decided to torture his smart devices a little by triggering a loop, with his Amazon Echo and Google Home getting stuck in an […]
Visual hacking or “shoulder surfing” is a serious security and privacy issue. It’s far too easy for people to garner sensitive information by simply snooping what’s on someone’s laptop screen. Up until now the only way to defeat this issue was to buy a “privacy screen”, which you’d affix to your laptop’s monitor. Not only […]
HP has unveiled its next generation DeskJet All-in-One (AiO) printer. Described as “designed for digital natives who want to print from Facebook or Instagram”, the reimagined HP DeskJet 3720 is half the size of other inkjet all-in-one printers in its class, and is designed to combine robust print, scan and copy capabilities with easy mobile setup […]
The Kickstarter campaign for Ripcord, the world’s first ‘play anywhere’ USB power cable, is making progress towards its target of €25,000, with 9 days to go. The idea comes from Irish company myVolts, which provides innovative power solutions for home, mobile and professional devices. A previous Kickstarter project, ‘Z-charge’, surpassed its funding goal and picked up the ‘Best technology’ award […]
Yesterday Apple announced a bunch of new products including the the handy little iPhone SE (6S spec in a 5S size), and a developer platform for healthcare apps called Carekit. Better, smaller, cooler – nothing really new or fundamentally groundbreaking – except for Liam. Liam is Apple’s new recycling robot, which carefully and quickly disassembles iPhones and […]
See what happens when you throw out pre-conceived ideas? Who says an electric toaster should pop? And why use guesswork to wonder if your toast is just brown enough? When you smell the burning, it’s already too late. Designer James Stumpf’s Bamboo and Glass Toaster is still just a concept, designed with sustainability and originality in mind. Gone […]
The Irish release date of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 has been eagerly anticipated by its fans since it was announced in October in New York along side the Band 2, Book and Lumia 950 and 950XL. The devices is set to go on sale in Ireland today, 19th November 2015. Microsoft has touted the […]
One of the things people enjoy about the James Bond movies are the gadgets. They’re usually supplied by Q (currently played by Ben Whishaw) and have captured audiences’ imagination for more than 50 years. Here are all of the James Bond 007 gadgets in one 16 minutes supercut. Enjoy!
Of course there’s a lot to do on board the International Space Station, but for an Italian astronaut, good coffee has to be a priority! So Samantha Cristoforetti became the first person to brew and drink an authentic espresso in space, and in doing so she paid tribute to a fictional female space pioneer who never […]
