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Can you imagine a future without gadgets? Probably not. After all, isn’t it the case that there are more gadgets on the planet every single day? By this time next year there will probably by twice as many smartphones as people on the planet and we will all be wearing smart socks and communicating with each other through increasingly small gadgets. Won’t we? Maybe not. The problem with the increasing amount of gadgets we use is that they rely too much on relatively scarce materials which could run out and leave us gadget-less and sad...

As smoking cigarettes becomes less popular all over the world we can all breathe a sigh of relief and suck in some clean, non threatening air. The only problem with the death of smoking is that the world probably won’t see any cool smoking gadgets in the future. Here are a couple of crackers which almost make us wish that cigarettes were hip again. The Cigarette Umbrella This is a frankly baffling gadget. For a start, the 1930s newspaper article about it claims that it was used by an English clown. Is that what English clowns looked...

How much are all the gadgets in the UK worth? The answer is that they are probably worth more than you realise. Recent research carried out by Affinion International revealed that every day there is a total of £22 billion worth of gadgets being carried about in the UK. Even more incredibly, the total amount of gadgets owned by people in Britain adds up to £51.6 billion, which is about the same as the GDP of Ecuador. Recession? What Recession? What Are All the Gadgets in the UK Worth? Surprisingly, the total value of the gadgets we own...

An interesting piece of research has shown how our mobile phones can be used to track our movements and find out more about human behaviour patterns. The study was published in the journal Nature and was done by a team which included Dr Marta Gonzalez, who is based in the Northeastern University in Boston. Their efforts included tracking the location of over 100,000 mobile phones and their users. Not a Lot of Travelling, and Usually to the Same Places The most interesting outcome of the investigation is that it confirms that we are creatures...

It might seem rather harsh to say that junk mail tends to emerge from certain countries but a recent study has confirmed that this is indeed the case. The person who carried out the investigation is based in the Netherlands and he discovered that around half of the junk mail which is out and about on the internet comes from just 20 internet service providers. Some of the Worst Countries He checked out over 42,000 ISPs to reach this conclusions and some of the figures are quite astonishing. For example, the ISP called Spectranet covers...

Technology has advanced so much in recent years that buying a computer isn’t as simple as just walking into a shop and asking for any old system. To make sure you get the best laptop or PC to suit your needs, you have to look at the system specifications. This handy little guide should remove the hassle of buying a new computer. To make things easier, this article will look at the specs of one of the Toshiba laptops available from Argos, as well as the features of one of the great range of Sony laptops. The two laptops that will be...