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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

Microsoft Office For iPad Coming Soon?
Say what you want about Microsoft – Windows in particular – but one cannot deny just how many of us have gotten used to Microsoft Office. Not that there is a lack of alternatives which do the job – from Open Office to Apple’s own suite of word processing... Read more
Toyota Announces Massive Prius Recall
There have been a number of automobile manufacturers in recent times, which have had to recall masses of vehicles due to dangerous or defective parts inside their cars.  In fact only last week , 75% of 2007-2014 high end cars had to be recalled from manufacturer Aston Martin for... Read more
A Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion has the potential to produce enough energy to meet humans’ high demands, so it is understandable why scientists invest a lot of time and money into researching this technology. It is unlikely that we will see this energy resource commercially available any time soon but scientists have... Read more
Wise Button Controls & Keeps Track Of Your Devices
Have you ever found yourself wishing that you had one device to control all of your other devices? Or, have you ever wanted to have a device that could easily tell you where you left one of your devices – especially when you can’t find your phone in the... Read more
Rakuten Buys Viber For $900 Million
The messaging app Viber has been in the news of late, whether it is because of threatening bans from certain governmental authorities or takeover bids.  But finally it appears as though one such firm had the correct figure in mind and coupled with the right package too.  Japanese e-commerce... Read more
Send A Smell Via A Text Message With oPhone
Nowadays smartphones provide a variety of stimulation for some of our senses whether it be hearing the voices of our family from the other side of the world and listening to music, or feasting our eyes on photos, videos and games. Yet now our noses could be about to... Read more
Dyson To Open Robotics Lab At Imperial College
If you’re anything like most “normal” people, part of your daily and weekly activities revolve around housekeeping. Whether it’s doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, or vacuuming the floor, we all have duties around the house that we wish we didn’t have to do. If you have children, they... Read more
Rogue Flappy Bird Android Download Contains Malware
After the extremely popular app, Flappy Bird, was officially removed from official app stores, the game sprang up online in various places and has provoked a variety of different clones. But, sadly, along with the copies of Flappy Bird being provided ,there are malware-injected version which have also been discovered.  These rogue... Read more
Trials Scheduled For TALOS Military Exoskeleton
The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) which is a division of the US Military, revealed late last year that it had created the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) project to produce a wearable environment for soldiers that combines both armour and technology to enhance the soldier’s fighting efficiency.... Read more
Microsoft: We’re Still Committed To PC Gaming
Anyone who has spent some time playing on a gaming console knows just how it can take you to a whole new world (or dimension, if you want). However, there is something to be said about PC gaming, and everyone knows that that experience is hard to beat. Of... Read more
The Survival Slingshot

The Survival Slingshot

News February 16, 2014

An aerospace engineer from Texas has developed a slingshot so powerful, that it can kill a wild animal. Fitted with two mounting points, the standard Survival Slingshot comes with forty rounds of steel shot. There is even an Archer model, which allows the user to fire arrows from this... Read more
Sony Selling Waterproof Walkman Inside A Bottle Of Water
Most people probably listen to music on-the-go through their smartphone nowadays but there is still a niche market for MP3 players. Sony wants to capitalize on this and is targeting consumers who want to listen to music underwater. Smartphones are not cheap and so for some places they are... Read more
URB-E: The Fold Up Electric Scooter
At the Consumer Electronic Show in January, the new up and coming gadget that seemed to get a lot of attention was the Urb-E scooter.  The Urb-E scooter is currently live on crowdfunding website, Indiegogo. In order to get the scooter off the ground, the company is sending down the... Read more
BBC, ITV & Channel 4 Team Up For Freeview Connect Service
The big 3 television broadcast stations in the UK; BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have joined forces in creating a new brand called Freeview Connect.  The service will offer their catch-up TV services as standard on smart televisons.  The Freeview Connect app will comprise of BBC iPlayer, ITV Player... Read more
The Phone Battery That Will Not Explode In Your Pocket
Just recently we reported the story of the school girl whose iPhone 5C set alight whilst in her back pocket. There have been other instances too relating to the batteries within smartphones causing fires. Although these cases are rare and often exaggerated it is important that something is done... Read more
Fish On Wheels Makes Life in a Fishbowl More Interesting
I’ve never been a fish, obviously, so I’m not really an authority on their quality of life. (I did own a Beta fish once, though). But it seems to me that the life of a fish, especially the life of a fish in a fishbowl, would be all kinds... Read more
Phones4U To Operate Samsung Stores
Carphone Warehouse have recently announced that it has partnered up with the South Korean electronics manufacturer to operate retail stores on behalf of Samsung. It has come to light however, that this was not an exclusive deal, because Samsung has later signed a similar deal with mobile phone retailer... Read more
TouchBase Technologies Want to Digitalize Business Cards
The swapping of business cards is a tradition going back years and despite the advances in technology, it is an action that is still used by many business people the world over. However this tradition, that has its origins in European aristocracy, could be about to be given a... Read more