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Michigan Bar Teaches Stock Exchange Principles – Through The Love of Beer
Beer is a globally recognised staple and the price of beer is something that we can all relate to but let’s be honest – we all complain when the price of our chosen brew goes up and cheer when it goes down, but when we see the stock exchange figures…
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Seagate Announce Five New Business NAS Systems With Up To 30TB Storage On Offer
Aside from desktop and enterprise hard drives and SSDs, not many people are aware that Seagate also have a NAS product line that covers every market sector including the SMB market. With the recent announcement that they are updating their NAS hard drive lines to include 5 and 6TB models,…
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Timberman Becomes The Latest Alternative To Flappy Bird
We all know how popular Flappy Bird was when it hit the App store and Google Play earlier in the year and since its creator pulled it from both stores, users have been begging for its return so that they can fulfil their flappy cravings. The wait for an alternative…
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Synology DS415Play 4-Bay NAS Review
Introduction In the early stages of this year we saw the arrival of Synology’s DS214Play – a 2-bay system which offers users the ability to stream media connect across the network to everything, including mobile devices thanks to its onboard transcoding capabilities from Intel’s latest Evansport processor. Little did Synology…
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New ‘Super Black’ Material Developed By British Researchers
Hearing of a new material that can perform in ways that push the boundaries of what is actively known is typically heard from the heavily invested teams over at NASA, however a team from Surrey (not too far away from my home in the UK as it happens) known as Surrey…
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Ritot – A Projection Smartwatch Excels Indiegogo Goals
Smartwatches have been growing in popularity over the last year or so and as more companies join the bandwagon and the technology that they pack increases, it is only a matter of time before something ‘out of the ordinary’ comes about that grabs the attention of the masses. This attention…
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Driver Of Stolen Model S Becomes First Person To Die In A Tesla
Since its launch in June 2012, the Tesla Model S has been one of Tesla’s top selling cars and with a price tag starting at around $70,000 (or £50,000 here in the UK), it is highly sought after, especially by thieves who want to get their hands on the all-electric…
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Scientists Use Sand To Triple Smartphone And Other Devices Battery Life
The battery life of our mobile devices – and anything that contains a battery for that matter is something which ranks quite high in everyone gripe list. Although manufacturers are discovering new ways to design components the need less power to run, there is only a certain amount of power…
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Volkswagon Eyes on The Road Ad Campaign Sends A Chilling Lesson to Cinema Goers
We all know of the short period in a cinema before a film starts where a number of adverts are displayed, but none of them has sent that much of a chilling message to its watchers compared to a new Volkswagen ad titled ‘Eyes On The Road’. Shown in the…
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Germany v Brazil World Cup Thrashing Broke Twitter Records
The Germany Vs Brazil Semi-final match in this year’s World Cup has certainly caught the attention of any football fan or anyone involved in football after their 7-1 thrashing against the home team a couple of days ago. The thrashing on the pitch was not the only top score to…
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Record Breaking 10Gbps Broadband Speed Over Copper Lines Achieved By Bell Labs
Bell Labs, part of Alcatel-Lucent have achieved a jaw dropping world record of 10Gbps over a standard copper telephone line. Achieved as part of a research project to investigate the possibility of bringing Gigabit internet to broadband networks that encompass copper lines along with high-speed fibre, Bell Labs were able to…
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Fancy a PC That Can Fit In Your Pocket? Tango PC Is On The Way
Small Form Factor systems are making a comeback as we seek cleaner desktops and workspaces, but a new system dubbed the Tango PC will make even the smallest SFF chassis seem big considering you can fit it into your pocket. Built around an AMD A6-5200 2GHz quad-core processor that typically resides…
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iPhones Are a Run-of-the-Mill Discovery For a Japanese Grain Depot
We hear lots of bizarre news stories over the course of each year, many of them not surprisingly relating to Apples iDevices and in particular the iPhone and this story is of no exception. A Japanese grain milling depot has discovered on numerous occasions that iPhones are turning up in…
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Blackberry Announce ‘Square is The New Rectangle’ With The Passport Smartphone
Since the early days of the modern smartphone, the focus has been on creating a screen which is the ‘optimum’ shape and size for the user to reach with just one thumb and this has led us to a series of devices that have rectangular screens in a portrait orientation.…
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Thecus N4800Eco 4-Bay NAS Review
Introduction In today’s market, performance, connectivity and software features are not the only areas that NAS manufacturers have to focus on when developing a new product. As businesses strive to save overhead costs wherever they can, the focus is now shifting over to saving power. Although performance is still a…
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