Every man grows a beard at some point in his life. But that's not to say that it's a good idea. In fact, science now confirms that while a beard makes you look older and of higher status, it makes you less attractive to women.
Building a killer home theatre involves more than just throwing a big wad of cash at your local electronics dealer. It requires planning, finesse, and scientific acoustic manipulation. The engineers at THX pioneered a lot of the methods and technologies used in today's top systems. So we took a trip to their San Rafael, California, headquarters to get a lesson from the masters. Here's what we learned.
If you’re lucky enough to have one of those awesome Sonos systems in your home, you’ll soon have a new way to control it. Two new Sonos Controller app updates are on the way for the PC and Mac, which should make it even easier to find, control and play music across your home for the ultimate party.
You know those amazing space navigation tabletop-systems you always see in sci-fi flicks? Microsoft’s made one, and it’s called NUIverse. Okay, it’s got a crappy name, but it allows you to navigate around the stars just like in the movies. You can go pinching, zooming, swiping and virtually flying through space, with up to 100,000 stars rendered in real-time, all with a head-up display to boot.
Well, that about wraps it up for another year. As the shutters come down on Baselworld 2012, the biggest watch fair in the world, it's a time to reflect on the highs and the lows of the past week. Mainly the lows.
Apple announced yesterday that it’d be opening its stores at 8AM tomorrow, but what if you want it at midnight? Good news rabid iPad buyers -- PC World is here to help, opening its Tottenham Court Road store in London on the stroke of 12:01 this evening, with others at throwing open their doors at 7AM.
Southampton's The Hobbit pub, which offers an Aragon cocktail, features a very nice Lord of the Rings-inspired mural in its beer garden and has "one loyalty card to bind them all" is in trouble with Hollywood. Over its name, as you might've guessed.
Today’s top offer isn’t a piece of white-hot, state-of-the-art technology but it’s guaranteed to turn heads just as much as the new iPad or one of those portable 3D TVs on wheels that you can attach to your waist and watch as you walk.
The Radioplayer platform, which is the system used by the BBC and many other commercial radio stations to handle their online broadcast streams, is set to launch a a series of own-brand apps this summer.
Transforming tablets seem to be all the rage at the moment; even RIM’s kind-of getting involved. Now Archos wants a piece of that pie, and it might have something a bit special up its sleeve.
When we last mentioned the plight of poor high street retailer GAME, its share price was languishing at a new low of 0.6p. It's now up to well over 3p today, on the back of positive news of a potential buyer stepping in to save the day.
