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Cycle Safely with the Smart Light by Cosmo at CES 2018

After the success of their smart helmet light for motorcyclists, Cosmo Connected are back at CES with a new version for bicyclists. For once the smart moniker is well deserved and it really could save lives. Todd goes for a ride with Emily. Winning three CES awards in 2018, the Cosmo team's smart helmet for cyclists builds on bike version. With

KiddieRail Saves Children on Stairs at Gadget Show Live

With our penultimate visit to the British Inventors' Project at Gadget Show Live, I'm with Lesley from KiddieRail. She saw that for children banisters on stairs were too fat and too high for them to use comfortably so it's hardly surprising to see that children under 5 have over 58,000 accidents on stairs every year in the UK, with larger numbers in

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

Acticheck Personal Alert at Wearable Tech Show

Many people in the UK will have seen advertisements in the past for emergency call necklaces and bracelets aimed at older people who live alone, providing them with reassurance that they can call for help in the event of a fall or other emergency. Typically these products are an older technology, relatively expensive and aesthetically uninspiring. Acticheck aims to bring the idea

Fonebud Smartphone Companion at CES

Don Baine and Dix Chew, Co Founder, look over the the latest iterations of the Fonebud at CES. A minimal secondary handset for your smartphone that combines a Bluetooth headset with a USB charger and flashlight, the Fonebud goes in the hand while the expensive smartphone stays in the pocket. For long calls, the Fonebud works like a Bluetooth headset to reduce RF

Twitter’s new Policy Changes Aimed at Combatting Abuse

Twitter will be making two new policy changes. One is related to prohibited content. The other is about how they will enforce certain policy violations. The goal is to reduce the amount of abuse that Twitter users could find themselves subjected to. More specifically, they have updated their violent threats policy. It now extends to “threats of violence against others

Child Angel Keeps an Eye on Children

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.