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With iPods, mobile phones and PDAs (plus other hand-held devices) now on the scene that can hold high quality, full-length video, the latest must-have gadget for any wannabe nerd or gadget freak is surely the latest device to hit the scene: The Pocket Projector. There are a few of these devices hitting the marketplace right [...]

Yet again, its time for another hot products sweep, as we track down what people are searching for, discovering and buying across our world wide network of terrific shopability. As the seasons change more discernibly from winter into spring/summer, it is perhaps unsurprising that all of a sudden on the TV and in adverts its [...]

After many years of difficult research, we’re finally able to release the finding’s of our study into human lifestyles since the mid 1990s, here are the results in graph form:
I gathered this important data from the very best ever Facebook group - You’re Having a Graph - which you all need to join by pressing [...]

Dyson DC25 Animal / Ball
Wow - I posted this using the new “Post” button on the latest version of ShareThis - it really does produce a pretty short and sweet post - just a link to the page, and a link to the sharethis site!
What’s cool, though, is that we’ve managed to be successful with [...]

Now that we’ve expanded our online shopping channels to an incredible size (though there’s still a lot more on its way VERY soon!) we are beginning to see some fascinating trends with regards what products are really hot in the online shopping world.
I’m going to tell you about them here, so that we can all [...]

Explanation
I love this Swedish-language number from Basshunter. It’s catchy, it’s sexy and it’s surprisingly about a computer game called “Defence of the Ancients”.

Watch this great optical illusion!
This is a good example of how weird our brains are. If you follow the pink moving dot around with your eyes, all the dots stay pink.

But, if you stare at the cross in the middle, the moving dot turns green, and all the other dots slowly fade away.
Strange, but true. [...]

Happy New Year!
The new year began without much of a hitch.
As always, the passing from one year to the next has prompted everyone and his dog to do a yearly review. After the ‘Christmas-Must-Have-Gifts-List,’ this is fertile turf for the lazy journo or blogger, therefore, I’ll leave them to it.
Although the title suggests that I [...]

There’s a cold going round our house and, given the high levels of vitamin C in lemons, I decided to do some home-cooking. A mean feat for someone as haphazard as myself. If I can do it (without much of the appropriate equipment), so can you.

The Rugby World Cup Final for 2007 takes place this Saturday, 20 October, at 21:00 CET (8pm UK time, or 5am Eastern Australian Time) between England and South Africa. It is time for the final match preview of RWC 2007.
As with the past two knockout round matches, I am going to continue my modus operandi [...]