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Heart rate monitoring is a standard feature for wrist-worn devices today, but this first came to Fitbit's product line with the ChargeHR in 2016. I've had mine for over two years now, and time hasn't been kind to it. The strap's bubbled up and the plastic's degraded and cracked. The electronics still work fine but the ChargeHR was designed as
A Yellow Pages came through my letterbox the other day along with other festive promotions. That was the first clue - a Yellow Pages didn't used to fit through the letterbox, being usually left on the doorstep for the homeowner to trip over. The next clue was the blue flash in the top right hand corner "Final Edition". That's right,
Last year, Pantone's Color of 2018 took us to outer space with Ultra Violet. This year's takes us to Earth's inner space with Living Coral announced as Pantone's Color of the Year for 2019. Officially known as Pantone 16-1546, the colour is "an animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge." Pantone
As the planet twirls to the winter solstice, the "Best of 2018" starts to emerge. Most of these are worthless click-bait, but National Geographic's Best 100 Photos of 2018 presents truly amazing photography from the world around us. NatGeo's great photos aren't just well composed shots of still life. For us, they show 2018 through a temporal lens, from the
That spot on your wrist is in high demand at the moment. From Apple Watches to smart watches, retro digital and vintage automatics, they all want in on that skin real estate. Personally, I still like a watch with hands to tell me that I'm late but I do like step counting and heart rate monitoring too. Consequently, I tend
Samsung's SmartThings might be one of the smarthome market leaders but its branded sensors aren't the cheapest by a long way. Savvy SmartThings specialists are constantly on the hunt for cheaper devices from other vendors but these often require custom code (device handlers) or strange steps to get them linked up. Coming from the other direction, Swedish homemakers Ikea have
If you still think that privacy and data sharing isn't an issue, then take a look at this... The other day I was visiting a popular gaming website and up popped the the usual notice about use of cookies. Normally I would dismiss these without a second thought but I was on a tablet and accidently tapped on the link