Cloud computing in the home may sound like an oxymoron, but hear us out: Microsoft has come up with a great piece of kit that lets all your home devices talk to each other, Fugoo Live. It’s Bluetooth for home appliances, but better!
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Forget buying presents, cooking Christmas dinner is the ultimate festive stress inducing nightmare. Don’t worry though, there’s still a few days to go, so if you’re a culinary novice we’ve got five time–saving kitchen gadgets that are bound to make cooking that monster meal an absolute breeze.
Now, pass the gravy, and what do you mean there’s no home-made cranberry sauce?!?…
Mum, dad, the pet – there’s two more people you’re still forgetting to buy for, and there’s just a few days left now before Christmas. Grandparents. Granted, they’re more likely to be grateful for a new tea cosy than the latest gadget gear, but we’ve found a few that won’t confuse them too much, whether they’re in their fifties or nineties. Read on to see! Read more
The ultimate in geek chic porcelain comes from MOD Design in Taiwan, whose little cups and circuit board saucers offer a tea break for those moments when you need to reboot or force quit your computer.
Thanks to their energy-saving credentials, it’s OK to love microwave ovens again, especially when they have a cool-sounding name like JetChef and the ability to cook preset meals in record time.
The ‘wine preservation and optimization system’, to give it the full name, isn’t about speed, but storing and serving fine wines at their optimum temperature. It’s all electronically controlled so you can’t spill any or drop the bottle.
Swiss coffee connoisseur Jura, which has already claimed the first web-enabled bean machine, now has the slimmest fully automatic espresso maker too. It’s available in six colours and we believe the green livery could be another first – and possibly last – for Jura.
Vintage technology repurposed for modern day use is the latest craze. These salt and pepper shakers by Charles & Marie are actually made of old telephone handset parts and Morris Minor blinkers.