Category: Festive Gift Ideas

Good Points: Price Battery life Active Noise Cancelling Good mid-range sound quality Lightweight Bad Points: Plastic build quality Sound distortion at high volume Bluetooth 4.1 Design: The Zen Wireless ANC (active noise cancelling) headphones are the latest in the budget range from Groov-e. Coming in at an MSRP …

Good Points: Slimline design Cable included USB Type-C input/output Fast charging for some devices Charge Level LEDs USB Type-C Out Price Bad Points: Fingerprint Magnetic Need to purchase further cables for other device’s. As we use our smartphones more and more each day, we demand more and more …

Lebanese digital image technology experts, Dermander, have launched a VR solution for your smartphone. Cunningly named “theVRkit”, it makes your smartphone a high resolution Virtual Reality camera. The kit comprises of a fish eye clip-on lens, a Bluetooth controlled smartphone mount and a pair of VR glasses. To …

If you’re an Android or iPhone user then you’ll either be enjoying free games or perhaps paying a relatively small amount to buy them. However, if you’re one of those flash PC gamers using Steam, Origin, Uplay or Battle.net, you’ll find that gaming can be a little expensive. …

The guys at Prezzybox have got your back if you’re struggling to come up with gift ideas this festive season. They’ve got a stack of gadgets for almost every taste. They’ve got stocking fillers like this personalised headphone holder plus these gloves which let you use your smartphone …

Every once in a while there seems to be a game, gadget or accessory that captures the imagination with kids and becomes a “fad”. Fidget spinners, remember them? Well, many, many years prior to those there was something called a Tamagotchi. It was basically a small digital pet …

Last year we had a play with the flic buttons for the first time, now we take another look to see how they have changed. The conversation went something like this Ian, would you like to review a button? A button? Yes but it’s a smart-button. Oooo a …

Right, I will come right and say this I am old. I can remember a time before the internet, before mobile phones and before the home computer had been invented ! I remember when gaming well that was something you did outside with your mates. I have been …

So, we were going to do a really big feature about the top tech toys for this festive season. We ended up adding lots of festive features for you over the last few weeks instead. Anyhow, the guys from Mobile Phones Direct have put together a Top 50 …

About 14 years ago I started reviewing phones. Now I’m reviewing Christmas tree decorations and, if I’m honest, I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. Either way, it’s the time to get festive. If you’ve just been up to the loft and grabbed your decorations …

Now before I begin my review, I must confess that I haven’t used a windows machine in anger for quite some time. 95% of my work is now done on my Chromebook. I do have a windows media PC, but that’s all its used for. I have been …

I got a stonking deal at the start of this year when I switched to Vodafone (have a read about that here if you’re interested). Now there’s a very similar one for just 20p more than I paid. Plus you get unlimited texts, unlimited calls, 4GB of roaming …

There’s definitely no shortage of little sticks around, and if your box has the need, you can now shove this Roku Streaming Stick 3500 in. Now available for a mere £19.99, that’s half the original price and you also get 3 free HD movies from Wuaki when you …

Whether it’s for a friend, relative or perhaps a cheeky little gift to yourself, the Amazon Black Friday deal on this 64GB SanDisk microSD card is really rather good. For £18.99 (down from £23.99) you get a branded microSD card which should give you more than enough space …

There has been an increased interest in virtual reality, and 360-degree video over the last year or so, with the likes of Gear VR, the HTC Vive & Playstation VR providing platforms to view this enhanced content. Purists will correctly tell you that VR and 360 degree video aren’t …

The whole Black Friday thing has toned down a little here in the UK. Some stores that started having Black Friday sales a few years ago have now decided not to bother. Not Amazon though, they’ve gone completely the other way and have extended their sale so that …

Back in the days when I had money, we used to go abroad about this time of year. We went to America a few times (before the Trump and when the UK Pound was a helluva lot stronger than it is now) and used to get our Christmas …

If you want a phone with a nice LED screen on one side and an e-Ink low-power screen on the other, the YotaPhone 2 should be on your shopping list. It’s a phone we reviewed and it’ll let you read books for an absolute age. Anyhow, the people …

Where do you start with this? Perhaps I should warn you a bit about the content of this article. Don’t worry, there’s no rude pictures or anything like that, it’s all above board, so don’t worry if you scroll down a bit and your boss is walking past …

I’m here to try and save you some cash this Christmas, so instead of going to Disney and paying a fortune, why not head off to GearBest.com ? They seem to have a range of completely official merchandise for a lot, lot less than you’d normally pay. To …