UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping

November 2009

Blogs

Solargorilla, a Portable Solar Charger, Among Winners at British Innovations Awards

The winners of the iawards have been announced. I wrote about the iawards back in August to encourage budding inventors to enter the awards which aim to recognise and celebrate the best British achievements in science, innovation and technology. The awards ceremony was held this week at the Science Museum and it saw the teams behind this year's best British innovations rewarded for developing practical solutions to some of society's greatest challenges. Among the winners was the Solargorilla a portable solar charger, from Powertraveller, which extends the power life of laptops and other electronic devices via the company’s Powergorilla device.

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Sponsored: Around The World in 80 Days – Volvo’s New Facebook Game

Isn’t there anything that Facebook can’t do… Volvo Cars have released a new Facebook game in which you need to virtually drive around the world in 80 days. In the game, which has been released to promote Volvo’s super fuel efficient C30 DRIVe, you DRIVe (sorry, their pun, not mine) the C30 around the world using only your network of Facebook friends.

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PlayStation 3 Gets Facebook Integration

Sony has officially announced on the PS3 blog that the forthcoming V3.10 firmware upgrade for the PlayStation 3 will include support for Facebook.

The update which is scheduled to be released “soon” allows you to link your PlayStation Network account to your Facebook account and automatically update your Facebook status with Trophy and PlayStation Store activity.

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The LightSleeper- for a good, heavy sleep

Having trouble sleeping? Take it from a former insomnia sufferer- sleep is the best thing in the world for making you feel like a human being. Especially if you want to be a happy human being. Think you’ve tried everything though? Let me introduce you to the LightSleeper…

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Sandberg USB CD Mini Reader Review

In the days of the netbook, manufacturers have at last got a balance between portability, and functionality about right. Netbooks like the Asus Eee pc, and the Samsung NC 10 have been tempting us with their promise of long battery life, and a fully featured OS and application suite. The balance however is usually offset with the hardware, and to get that portability, you need less of it. Out go the dedicated graphics, and power hungry CPU’s, and of course the topic of today’s review, the CD drive. Of course the quick minded lot at Sandberg have the USB CD Mini Reader that should fill the gap left by the non-existent CD drive on your computer.

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Is Google Chrome OS Coming This Week? Does it Matter?

Over the last few days the Internet has been full of rumours that, this week, Google will release a Beta version of their Chrome OS. Google’s Chrome OS was announced back in the summer as a re-think of what operating systems should be. Google’s thinking is as follows: today’s operating systems, that run our web browsers, were designed in an era where there was no web. So today we need a new operating system which is designed with the web in mind.

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An absolute tech junky, I graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Computing and now live on the outskirts of Leeds working with you guessed it, Computers. I love all things gadgety but really dislike wires. For those of you who haven’t worked it out the name of the site is a combination of my nickname (Gaj) and the pronunciation ‘Gadget’.
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