We already know by now that mobile phones are very important to most people these days. However, a new survey has revealed just how much men love them. The answer is that they love them a lot. Sometimes more than should probably be admitted to the wider world. The survey by the mobile gaming site Mobile Slots found that close to 1 in 5 single men would choose to have an...
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Inventors have been trying to find an improvement on the standard lithium-ion battery for some time now but few people could have expected a fruit would have given them the possible solution. Silicon has long seen as a possible material, because of the huge amount of energy it can store. However, there are some problems with the material which no –one had been able...
A new piece of research carried out by BBC Learning has revealed that parents are no longer fully aware of the dangers their children could come across on smartphones or tablets. It turns out that close to 20% of youngsters say that they have been upset by something they have seen on their mobile device. However, only half of that number of parents thought that their kids...
How many smartphones do you think were shipped across the world in 2013? The answer is a pretty staggering 1 flipping billion. 1.004 billion if you want us to be exact. This is huge percentage of the overall mobile phone shipments of 1.8 billion last year and a 38.4% jump from the previous year’s figures. It is also the first time that more than a billion smartphone...
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,...
Is there anything in the history of human endeavour more mind numbingly pointless than the rock paper scissors game? Throughout the years countless long car trips and dull evenings in the house have been made even more boring thanks to this ridiculous game. Well, there is something more ridiculously pointless than the game; a robot which wins it every single blooming...
As exciting new uses for robots appear all over the world one which catches the eye more than most involves a spherical device designed to help farmers. It is called the Rosphere and one of the interesting things about it is that it gets moving just like a hamster in an exercise ball. The sphere uses the same shifting movement which hamster use in order to propel itself...
How would you feel about your phone telling you how happy you currently are? This is a situation you could be in before too long thanks to research being carried out at Cambridge University right now. The idea they have had is that the app they have developed could use a mixture of data from the phone and the user’s own input. The app is called EmotionSense and the people...
Do you remember the days when kids had to play with any old toy or game they could get hold of? Well, it seems like the days of low tech dolls and jumpers for goalposts are long gone. A recent survey by internet security firm McAfee has revealed that an incredible 82% of 5 year olds either own or use a device which is enabled for internet access. However, this statistic...
There’s a new form of cyber crime which is giving celebrity hunters a headache and of all Olympic athletes Andy Murray is the most dangerous athlete. We aren’t talking about his skills on the tennis court either because McAfee says that people gripped by Murray Mania are most likely to fall fowl of cyber criminals traps. How they do it Cyber crooks will latch on the...