Tag: Consumer Technology

You know I love a good quality video production and this video is shot in a stunning style to show off Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 108MP camera – which is the most powerful you can get in a smartphone. It looks amazing although why anyone would need that many pixels is totally beyond me. The video does look very cool though so well done Samsung. The bumf says: This year, we woke up with dreams like never before. Simple dreams… like meeting friends for coffee, going to the movies, enjoying live concerts, travel. So how did we bring these dreams ... Read more

The last couple of months have been rather choppy for children’s tech brand VTECH. Two months ago its online app store was hacked and personal data of more than 4.8 million adult customers and 6.3 m children was allegedly stolen causing a major customer outcry. The APP store has been down ever since, until this week, when it sprung back up. The company has apparently upgraded its security in the two months it has been down, but unfortunately in a major PR Fail it also updated its Terms and Conditions and buried a few things in there that have caused ... Read more

I love this and had to share it as it combines my two big loves technology and DJing. Novalia worked with DJ Qbert to create the world’s first interactive DJ Decks in an album cover. The technology behind this is brilliant and really gives you some food for thought on what you can do with paper and cardboard these days. I might have to be using the technology in our next PR stunt. The cover comes complete with two decks, a cross fader and an array of SFX buttons printed directly onto paper using printed electronics and artwork. QBert’s Kickstarter ... Read more

It’s that time of the year again when we take a look back at 2014. In this lovely video Google analyses our trillions of searches and puts it all together. Google asks: “What do these searches say about us? Explore the Year in Search https://www.google.com/2014 and follow the conversation on #YearInSearch” You can watch some of the past Year in Search videos here: https://goo.gl/LXA4nQ

This last couple of weeks my team and I have been preparing for the launch of a brilliant new meditation app called Anamaya. It has been carefully developed by mind and body specialist, Graham Doke, alongside a seven-year Apple veteran, Jonathan Koch. We have been working together for a while now and I had a particular interest in this application as I used meditation a few years ago to beat my insomnia which had plagued me for a number of years. Professional meditation programmes can help people discover their inner peace, mastering feelings of anger, pain and helping to manage ... Read more

This week I attended the brilliant Thinking Digital in Newcastle. The conference had some truly world class speakers and some awe inspiring presentations from building a home on the Moon through to solving virus outbreaks across the planet. It is great to see how technology is being used to better the world rather than just to simply market stuff. Some of the products and ideas were staggering and there was also some fine piano playing from a promising young talent. The section that really made me think though was the final panel discussion. The panel consisted of The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss, Meri ... Read more

So last week I was talking to a friend of mine who likes his tech and he was telling me all about Android TV boxes and how brilliant they are. I am a bit of a sceptic when it comes to things that deliver free entertainment but after watching his TV I was convinced that this system could really be a threat to the cable industry. For those of you that don’t know an Android MX box can easily be found all over eBay (for around £75) and other online shops. They turn a normal TV, via a HDMI lead, into ... Read more

Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all had lovely Christmases and exciting new years. My Christmas has been spent relaxing and unwinding and seeing friends and family and doing all the things you should during the festive period. My little boy is four and a half now and is getting more and more into computer games and I seem to be getting a new lease of life on them too. My wife bought me Goldeneye Reloaded for the PS3 which can work with the PS3 Move stick. I have been playing it for most of the Christmas break and ... Read more

I was reading an article the other day that claimed a positive review on Trip Advisor was now worth £10,000 and hotel owners are now being blackmailed for discounts and threatened with negative reviews if they don’t give them. The article stated: Dozens of customers are using the website’s increasing power to try and get free upgrades or refunds despite nothing wrong with their accommodation. Industry experts have said that a bad rating or review on the popular ratings site can be costly, sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds in lost bookings. To be honest I ... Read more

So I have been  out of the country for a few days in Berlin with one of my clients that manufactures headphones. We were attending IFA2011 which is the biggest consumer electronics show in the world, and as a massive tech/gadget geek I was in my element and felt like a kid at Christmas. I am also a huge dance music fan and used to professionally DJ in clubs when I worked in London and I did manage to become a semi-finalist at the British DJ championships in 2002. Recently I have got back into it and have started playing ... Read more