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One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to run the Edinburgh Bupa 10k in October. This might not seem like a huge challenge to you but for someone who hasn’t really ever ran before, it’s a different story. I’ve set myself a target of being able to comfortably jog the 10k by May, then between May [...]

This month, Google will be introducing a number of different products and services attached to their social network, Google+.  According to Google themselves, the network which was launched in June last year already has over 80 million worldwide users, with 60 percent using the network on a daily basis. Obviously this isn’t a speck of [...]

UK based company Captive Media has developed ‘the world’s first retrofit, networked washroom gaming system… with hands-free control’. Yes that’s right, a urinal mounted, urine-controlled gaming system for men (and women?). According to the company’s research: The average visit time (of a urinal) for a UK male is 55 seconds – equivalent to two standard [...]

‘Vita’ which means ‘life’ in Latin will be coming to stores near you soon. Today, Sony has released the launch date of their new handheld gaming device called PlayStation Vita. The chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Jack Tretton revealed that the device would be launched in Europe and the US simultaneously on the 22nd [...]

If you’ve got an iPhone chances are you will have or have heard of Instagram, a user-friendly camera and photo sharing app. It was recently announced that the app has managed to reach 5 million users sharing over 100 million photos. There are a couple of things about this app that makes it so special and [...]