O2 reveals World’s first wearable tech nail Mobile giant O2 has partnered with inventor Sean Miles and beauty brand Nails Inc to create the world’s first wearable tech nail. The new nail extension features an embedded miniature Bluetooth chip that can be paired with your smartphone. With the press of a button, you’ll be able to answer a call, play a song or redial the […]
Google’s Project Loon connects 100k in Puerto Rico Although many view the Internet as a global phenomenon, more than half of the world’s population are still without Internet access. Project Loon is an initiative by Google designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide, using a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space. The new technology can not only help […]
5G government competition with million pound grants 5G is expected to be capable of delivering extremely fast data with estimates between 10 – 50 Gbit/s compared with today’s average 4G download speed of 15 Mbit/s. In fact, back in 2013 Samsung tested 5G at 1Gbps and journalists reported that a HD movie could be downloaded in less than 30 seconds. In 2014, Samsung set a mobile speed record […]
Will Samsung release a foldable smartphone? After six years of trial and error, Samsung, could be the first company to commercially launch a ‘foldable phone’. In 2011, Samsung’s prototype was able to remain intact after a whopping 100,000 folds with only a 6% drop in brightness at centre (where all the folding happened), however various manufacturing issues prevented the real deal – until now. Rumour […]
Twitter looks at doubling it’s character limit Renowned for being short and sweet, Twitter may move away from it’s 140 character limit, originally inspired by SMS lengths, to double the amount. The trial of the new limit came after a loss of around £87 million in the most recent quarter and a slight decline of users – which had already been at a stand still […]
Countdown to Snapchat’s augmented reality release Later on today, Snapchat will be revealing it’s augmented reality art platform. The platform’s main star is Jeff Koons, an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. “Discover Koons’s innovative digital installations scattered across the world to experience them for yourself, and […]