My Gadget Life

It's not often I'm fooled by technology. I like to know how stuff works. It helps me evaluate the relative merits of the common cons...

OK, so the above patently isn't a 3DS, but it did remind me that for better or worse I've owned nearly all Nintendos' handheld d...

The Rubik's Touch Cube is a great idea on paper that actually made it to product. The familiar look of the Rubik Cube is replicated he...

Among the flotsam if the itunes app store - and in the case of the iPad - one rarely finds apps that are totally unique not just to the plat...

My Robonova doesn't get out much these days. It's a time thing, see. If you're as time poor as me, you don't waste the prec...

Something has been bugging me for a while. Ever since I upgraded our old iMac to OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I've always been surprised, or rathe...

Crazes. There don't seem to be that many going around these days. In this super-connected era, there isn't one single product that e...

Just got an iPad? Got an empty wallet? Wondering what to do with that Struxx robot you bought last year and left, forgotten, under the bed ...

Ok, so I kinda cut down on the gadgets for this year's Spring holiday to Wales, insofar as only packing my Sony HCR-5E camcorder, Panaso...

Those outside the UK will probably never have heard the term 'Dixons' to describe a chain of electronics retailers - and sadly, neve...

Nissan’s Leaf will be one of the first mass produced fully electric vehicles to be introduced to UK roads. Last week, I had the privilege ...

The Struxx robot is a sad old thing, really. You see, he's much bigger than the other construction toy robots. Bigger than any Bionicle...

... someone updated their blog on a more regular basis than I do. Today I'm looking at a really neat USB gizmo - the Sandisk Ultra II 4G...

The Sandisk V-Mate has been around for a couple of years now, but not only has it been discontinued, but no replacement device seems to exis...