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Last week I was at a trade show for electrical wholesalers and I came across these single and double power sockets with a USB charging point built-in. As soon as I saw them, I thought, "Those would be handy..." and then I saw the price...£62.74 for the single and £76.60 for the double socket and they're trade prices too (ex
OWC are more usually known for their line of Mac-compatible SSDs but unsurprisingly, they do have other products. Andy finds out more from Grant. The unsightly profusion of mobile phone, tablet and other gadget chargers is a bane of modern life. OWC have a tidy and green solution in the shape of a standard power socket fitted with smart USB
The nest thermostat has received more than its fair share of press coverage recently, but that's because it's both smart, cool and well-designed. Todd chats with Kate from nest about this great new product. The nest thermostat is a smart thermostat that learns from your habits and behaviours and adjusts itself to match them, turning the heat up when you
Looking for a cool and geeky DIY project? Then this 555 Timer IC footstool might be just the thing for you. Imagine a small little chip scaled up thousands of times and you've got a something that would make a perfect footstool. Here it is and that's the actual chip in the foreground. Put together by the guys'n'gals over at
Todd Cochrane spoke to Jeff Cody and Matt Miller from Vidtonics a company that is just launching and will be providing a kit to build your own TV. Everything you need is included in the kit, the LCD panel(22-42 inches), the board and anything else you will need. They made it clear that there is no soldering involved, if you
Over at How It Works there's a short story about a father and his two children sending up a weather balloon to 19 miles with a video camera on-board. The camera records all of the ascent and all but 2 minutes of the descent - the battery runs out! It takes the Geissbuhler family eight months of planning and it's
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