Tag: <span>technology</span>

Teenagers are an image-conscious lot – but where it was once about having jeans from a must-have designer, the latest statement t-shirts, or the newest trainers, it seems today’s teens are turning their attentions to the latest, must have tech.

And whereas teenagers would never be seen dead or otherwise in ‘fake’ remakes of designer brands, it seems some are happy to save money on clothing and instead spend it on the latest smartphones.

Nicole Myers, a 19-year-old model from New York in USA, is one such teen technophile: “It’s definitely more exciting for a lot of teenagers to have a new phone that can do lots of cool stuff than clothing. A phone keeps you much more entertained. It’s a better distraction than clothing.”

So are our teens destined to ditch the threads for tech?

It’s almost two years since Apple launched the iPhone 5 and it looks like it could be ready to unleash its sixth iteration of the groundbreaking smartphone – so will this be the gamechanger we were hoping the 5 would be? Or will it be more of the same from Apple?

Obviously, we’ve no idea, but here are some of the latest iPhone 6 rumours doing the rounds to help give us an idea…

The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX7 is widely regarded as having the most vibrant display of any tablet – the reason? Quantum dots.

Forget liquid crystal display (LCD). Forget organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). Quantum dots are where the future of hi-res displays. So we know where it’s going, but where did it come from?

July 30, 2014 was an historic day for the UK – the government revealed it was to change the rules of the road to allow companies to start trialing driverless cars in three UK cities.

£10 million has been ring-fenced to cover the costs of the trials that will run for between 18-36 months from January 2015.

On Tuesday night, Apple announced its Q3 results – traditionally a subdued affair as consumers wait for newer products, like the latest iPhone – and posted its second straight quarter of double digit percentage growth in iPhone sales.

The tech giant also reported a higher-than-expected net income of $7.7 billion (around £4.5 billion) of net income on revenue of $37.4 billion (roughly £22 billion), with per-share profit coming in at $1.28, higher than the expected $1.23.

However, many results were still below what forecasts expected.

At the turn of the year we predicted, along with many others, hat 2014 would be the year of wearable tech as Sony, Samsung and Pebble all looked set to take the market by storm – it’s not quite worked out like that though.

Although more and more of us are coming around to the idea of wearable tech, and while there are a few months left of this year still, it doesn’t look like 2014 will quite be the year it breaks through.

So why hasn’t it taken off as expected? Maybe it’s because that the tech is wearable from a practical point of view, it’s still not quite suitable from a sartorial standpoint.

Star Wars droids such as R2-D2 and C3PO are known the world over – and beyond for that matter – but are elements of this science fiction becoming science fact?

We’ve already seen how Google is buying up robotics and artificial intelligence companies like there’s no tomorrow – and if the robots fulfill their terminator-like prophecy there will be no tomorrow – but how do modern day robots shape up against their Star Wars counterparts?

Check out this cracking infographic to find out…

Apple has announced details of iOS8 – its latest multi-platform operating system – and one of the main innovations appears to be the inclusion of health data monitoring apps.

Speaking at Apple’s annual conference for developers in San Francisco, Craig Federighi, the company’s senior vice president of software engineering revealed details Health, an app for iPhone and iPad.