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Sony were not the only major tech company to drop a bombshell yesterday. Never ones to be outdone, Apple chose their September 7 keynote as the launchpad for the highly anticipated iPhone 7. As is often the case with Apple these days (in a pos Steve...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The tree that reads minds The leaves of an artificial tree at this year's Burning Man Festival in Nevada illuminated with “light flocks” in response to visitors' movements, heartbeats and brain activity. A team from New York, San...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
IKEA launches solar battery packs to rival Tesla's Powerwall IKEA is expanding its solar panel offering with a battery-storage solution, which it claims could help homeowners cut their electricity bills by 70%. The Swedish furniture giant has been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
New iPhone likely to feature facial recognition and an all-screen design The next Apple iPhone will reportedly be unlocked using facial-recognition technology and will also feature a screen covering almost its entire front. A pre-release of firmware...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The iPhone, much like the iMac and iPod before it and the iPad after it, came seemingly out of nowhere to revolutionise the industry that spawned it back in 2007, leaving in its wake a veritable legion of pale imitations and an army of Apple acolytes...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In another new ad for the iPhone 5s, Apple has decided to remind their users that they are more powerful than they think by encouraging them to “Dream” up ways in which they could be using their smartphones in their respective jobs. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last time I blogged about the iPhone, I was singing its praises while simultaneously warning that it could lead to serious relationship problems if it found its way into the bedroom. Don't get my wife started on Angry Birds, for instance. "Just one...
Posted by: Creativepool
A torch created from a single sheet of rolled paper A new flat-packed light by Nendo is made from a single piece of conductive paper, which can be rolled up to create a handheld torch in emergency situations. The Paper Torch was designed by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When you’re running a small business on your own then you need all the help you can get. The powerful apps discussed here will help take your organizational and management skills to the next level. Calendar apps for better self-management and...
Posted by: Martha Jameson
In 2007, two Stanford Design Program graduates, James Monsees and Adam Bowen, came together and formed the company Ploom with the aim of innovating the portable vaporization market - an area which they rightly felt “lacked...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
The London offices of CHI & Partners have been given a surreal edge this week with the addition of some incredibly bizarre, and yet oddly beautiful images designed by Swedish artist Kristofer Ström. With a style that brings to mind (for me at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The founder of immersive production studio REWIND has predicted that mixed reality will have as big an impact on the world as the iPhone did when it was first released in 2007. Sol Rogers, who is behind augmented and virtual reality work for the...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
Whilst there are now more Android smartphones on the market than there are iPhones, Apple's handset is still arguably the definitive smart device, despite its exorbitant cost. It's this cost, however, that has irked the tech giant's former CEO John...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A In two days time our lives, as we know them, are about to change forever. Why, you ask? Because the iPad is here of course. Do try to keep up, people. Apple are going to be opening their stores at 8am to accommodate the vast quantity of eager...
Posted by: Creativepool
Nextbit launches the gorgeous, crowd-funded Robin phone Kicking off a rather phone-heavy week in tech news, Nextbit has launched a new crowd-funded Android phone, which uses integrated cloud storage. The Robin was designed by Scott Croyle, former...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst it might seem a little superfluous to harp on about announcements that have been rumoured to the point of presumed authenticity for months now, any Apple event is big news in the tech community, because there really is no other company like...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Renault's symbiotic vision for car and home Renault revealed an autonomous, electric concept car at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, which it sees as an extension of the 'connected home' concept. Described by the car company as “an extra...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Launching a training centre in Italy Apple is set to launch a training centre in Italy where students will learn how to code and develop apps for the iOS smartphone and tablet platform. The iOS App Development Centre in Naples will have a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With a long-time partnership with Apple, Orange was one of the main carriers in France working to promote 5G with the launch of iPhone 12. Having such a solid relationship in place, it would have been easy for the Orange brand and Publicis Conseil to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Elon Musk announces Yusaku Maezawa as the first ever commercial astronaut for SpaceX Elon Musk announced last night at an event held at the LA headquarters of SpaceX, that Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the online Japanese clothing company Zozo, will be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sony brings Aibo robot dog back to life with added AI Sony has unveiled a new version of the robot dog it is thought to have killed off over a decade ago and now it comes with artificial intelligence. The tech brand announced this week that it will...
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Of all the things Apple do well, creating a hullabaloo is one of the best. Despite ongoing wars and Scotland's bid for independence, the launch of a new product still performed well in the news agenda on Tuesday. Live from Cupertino, the world's...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Human-powered inefficiency machines aim to stop us taking electricity for granted Royal College of Art graduate Meret Vollenweider has created an interactive installation of human-powered appliances in order to stop people taking electricity for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Apple iPhone 6S images leaked? Days after Apple accidentally leaked images of their new iPods, images of the tech giant's next iPhone (the iPhone 6s) have hit the internet. The photos cite a “Proven” Apple source, and show that the new...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hitman recreated IRL and controlled by The Chuckle Brothers The Chuckle Brothers play real-life Hitman IO Interactive's popular Hitman franchise was adapted into a big budget real-life interactive experience this week by production company Realm...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If Apple excel at one thing, it's this: convincing us we own the pinnacle in technological achievement, and then replacing it. When we all bought our iPods, we couldn't imagine a day when they'd no longer be desirable, let alone available. Like a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Microsoft use the Super Bowl to show off their Hololens Imagining the future for NFL fans Whilst it seems we can't go a week without hearing about similar projects from Sony and Valve, there’s still very little solid information available to the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a week where drones have been a big feature in the news for all the wrong reasons thanks to a collision at Heathrow and a rogue concert drone at a Muse gig, I've decided to take the weekly Tech feature in a slightly different, more insightful...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst we’ve all been busy recording gigs and nights out or watching kittens chase shoes on our iPhones, Hollywood has created everything from heart-wrenching film shorts to feature-length thrillers using just their smartphones. Each...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
There may be "an app for just about anything", but have we gone a bit nuts over the iPhone? Boys with toys. A bit of a generalisation, as rhyming adages go, but one which I think is more true today than ever before. No matter how old I get (and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Nintendo confirm their Quality of Life initiative is not dead yet After much speculation to the former, Nintendo president and CEO Tatsumi Kimishima confirmed this week that the company's Quality of Life initiative is still in the works. Kimishima...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Facebook has your back! Just when we were all quite content in picturing Facebook as an irredeemable, voyeuristic cess pit, (not that it would stop us using it of course) they’ve only gone and revealed themselves as bastions of the revolution!...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is one of those figures who will always be remembered for leaving an everlasting mark in the history of design, technology and creativity. Save for the late Steve Jobs, there is no one who had more relevance in the history of...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
A fresh face on the iPod Apple has officially revealed a brand new iPod Touch, and has also announced a gaggle of new colour options for the entire iPod line. We reported a few weeks back that the latest iTunes update leaked this information ahead...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Amazon's Giant Flying Drone Warehouses (January) In a story that gained a fair amount of traction on social media over the 2016 festive period for obvious reasons, Amazon filed a patent for gigantic flying warehouses back in January that could house...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Will.i.am gets into the jack-less iPhone headphone game Music producer, TV host and Black Eyed Pea, Will.i.am, has made another foray into the design world, this time with a pair of wireless headphones inspired by the shape of vinyl records. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
