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Phillips gets Eco Friendly for Toast and Tea

Phillips gets Eco Friendly for Toast and Tea

How environmentally friendly is your toaster? Once built to last for years, we now see domestic appliances like toasters and kettles produced and sold cheaply, made to throw away – not fix from not so environmentally friendly materials…but that’s changing. Philips has just launched the first sustainable breakfast appliance set made from bio-based plastics and plant oil waste…which means a[Read More…]

Marvel Snap - Mobile and PC Game Arriving Oct 18

Marvel Snap – Mobile and PC Game Arriving Oct 18

It’s been a while since I mentioned a smartphone game so here’s one that’s launching in a few weeks for both Mobile and PC. It’s called Marvel Snap and as the name perhaps suggests, it’s a virtual card game that involves heroes and villains from the Marvel comic book universe – think everything from the Avengers to Guardians of the[Read More…]

Will you get a Playstation 5 for Christmas?

Will you get a Playstation 5 for Christmas?

If you’ve been trying to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 for the past 2 years…things are starting to look up! Sony’s PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, but quickly sold out* and since then you’ve either had to pay highly inflated prices to a private seller or just really really lucky to find stock as it landed in[Read More…]

What is WiFi 7?

What is WiFi 7?

Just how good can Wifi get? The current standard Wifi 6 already delivers speeds almost 3 times faster than the previous generation of Wifi, plus lower latency and increased range, but Intel reports we can expect a lot more from WiFi 7. A recent WiFi 7 demonstration from Intel and Broadcom has set the stage for the next generation of[Read More…]

The beginning of the end for the humble Sim Card

The beginning of the end for the humble Sim Card

How much better would smartphones be if you didn’t need to mess around with that little, fiddly plastic Sim Card? According to a research from Amdocs, almost 80 percent of us are in favour of ditching the traditional Sim Card and moving to phones that use only eSim technology. Generally you don’t have to think about the Sim Card in[Read More…]