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Parents, we've all been there. You're as far away from home or car as possible and your toddler decides that he or she has had enough of walking. No amount of encouragement or cajoling will make him take another step and you have to carry your darling all the way back. If you recognise this story then you'll be interested
This afternoon Huawei announced in London a pair of new Android smartphones; the expected P8 and the entirely unexpected P8 Max. The latter is a total whopper of a phone but more of this later. I watched the show the on-line (in between streaming drop outs) to see CEO Huawei Consumer Business Group Richard Yu show off the P8 and its
Continuing GNC's coverage of the Gadget Show Live and the British Inventors' Project, Child Angel is one of the smallest and most advanced child tracking device on the market. Made to be attractive to the child and easy to use in an emergency, the Child Angel wrist-mounted tracker provides accurate location monitoring by combining GPS, GSM and Wi-Fi hotspot triangulation.
Child-friendly products are fertile ground for inventors and it's no surprise to see a number of ideas presented at Gadget Show Live as part of the British Inventors' Project. Here is Doddl, a cutlery (flatware) set for children that has uniquely shaped handles to help the child hold the knife, fork and spoon. Doddl improves co-ordination and control while promoting
SafeSip is a reusable drinks cover that fits almost any glass, mug, cup or can to stop spills. It's a simple product that has myriad uses with children, the elderly, during travel, on picnics or in places where a liquid leak would be disastrous. Made from food-grade silicone rubber, the SafeSip can be pulled over a wide range of drinking
Sony New Zealand teamed up with trainers at Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium for a unique project called “The Octographer”. They taught an octopus named Rambo to how to use a Sony Cyber Shot TX30 camera. The camera was placed in a special rig that would hold it in place and allow Rambo to push down on a red shutter
The next invention from the British Inventors' Project at the Gadget Show Live continues the culinary theme and aims to fix the eternal problem of spreading butter straight from the fridge. Introducing the EasiSpread heated butter knife. The first implement in the EasiChef range of kitchen utensils, the EasiSpread heats the leading edge of the knife to a little under 40C, softening
The second concept product in the British Inventors' Project at Gadget Show Live is the SousChef from Ben Rawls. The SousChef is designed to circumvent the issues typically encountered when trying to use technology in the kitchen, mainly that it's wet and messy. The SousChef projects information onto the kitchen work surface and uses infrared (IR) feedback to detect the owners
GNC's Gadget Show Live coverage kicks off with two concept product ideas entered into the British Inventors' Project. First up is Kristina Parkes's BASE which "enables new forms of connection between distanced people, creating a tangible channel of communication through a system utilising flexible displays and remote app-based transmission." In plain English, you send photos from your smartphone using an app
Safety (or lack thereof) is one of the main reasons cited why people don't take up cycling for commuting and with over 20,000 bike accidents in London alone in 2013, it's a reasonable concern. To prevent the most common cycling accidents, the Babel Bike has been designed for a new era of cycling safety with innovative features including a safety cage,
Don Baine The Gadget Professor will be live from the National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB) Monday 4-13 / 4-17
My team made a very big announcement yesterday. We had a vision to create a One Click Subscribe Podcast subscription protocol for Android Podcast Listeners. What is One Click? It is just as it sounds.. Finally Android Listeners will be able to One Click subscribe to podcasts. One of two actions will occur when podcasters implement One Click on their
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