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An Unplanned Upgrade

A few weeks ago my trusty Samsung Galaxy Note 4 started acting weird, randomly rebooting at inopportune times. To make a long story short, on the second trip to a Sprint store the technicians determined that it was a hardware problem. Since Sprint has no more Note 4 units available for replacements, their only alternative was to upgrade me to a

OnePlus Loop VR Review

OnePlus is launching the next model in its wildly successful line of smartphones on 14 June and its going to do the launch in VR, basing the event on an orbiting spacestation called The Loop. Although the fourth phone from the Chinese outfit, it's going to be the OnePlus 3 following on from the 1, 2 and X. I've personally bought the 1

Azoi Kito+ Health Tracker Review

After interviewing Azoi at Gadget Show Live, the team there sent me a Kito+ to review. I've been using it to check my vital signs over the past few weeks. If you didn't read or listen to the original interview, the Kito+ is a credit-card sized health tracker that measures heart rate (pulse), respiration rate (breathing), blood oxygen, skin temperature and ECG.

Ding Smart Doorbell at Gadget Show Live

In the last of my interviews with participants in the British Inventors' Project, I'm with Avril from Ding Labs and their Ding Smart Doorbell. She tells me more about it. At first glance, the doorbell looks the part, dressed in "on trend" minty green. Broadly, there are two parts, the Ding Chime and the Ding Button. Obviously the Button goes

Texting while walking? German city has a solution

We've all seem people walking while staring down at their phones, even resulting in some hilarious videos. Even one that went viral a while back when a surveillance camera captured footage a woman in a shopping mall falling into a fountain while staring at the device in her hand. Now a city in Germany thinks it may have found a

Azoi Kito+ Health Tracker at Gadget Show Live

Only a slightly bigger than a credit card, the Azoi Kito+ is a personal health tracking device that measures ECG, heart rate (pulse), blood oxygen, skin temperature and respiration rate. I've seen the Kito tracker a couple of times now and every time I see it, I'm impressed that such a small device can gather so much data for so

Playbrush Brings Fun to Toothbrushing at Gadget Show Live

Good oral hygiene is important for everyone but getting children to brush their teeth can be a bedtime battle. Playbrush should help win the war, bringing fun into the bathroom. I get the toothpaste out with John to find out more about Playbrush and continue coverage of the British Inventors' Project. The Playbrush is small bulbous gadget that slips over