There's no reason to fear plummeting to your death-or awkward crotch harnesses-with AquaSport's climbing walls. They're installed on the edge of a pool so if you lose your grip or footing, you're guaranteed a safe splashdown.
Having set up what can only be described as the most puny 4G trial ever last month, it’s back with a load of fibre-connected small cells trialling the sweet blazing speeds of LTE in urban areas.
These are the first photos of some of the countless treasures found in the extraordinary 298-million-year-old forest discovered under coal mine in Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China.
Cassette Boy, the talented electronica duo from Brixton, is back again having polished off Alan Sugar in 2009 and the Dragon's Den in 2010, this time it’s got the BBC News in its sights. Remixed, sampled and made to say hilarious things, poor old George Alagiah simply doesn’t know what’s hit him.
For a long time, biologists have predicted that the Y chromosome—the DNA that makes men men—was gradually dying out, and that it would eventually lead to the extiniction of the male of the species. Fortunately, a team of researchers has proven that isn't the case.
Alan Arnette has an excellent post on Outside detailing the costs of reaching Earth's highest summit, Mount Everest. I've never thought about it before but it totally makes sense that there are a lot of things that go on to make that climb, right? And all those things cost a lot of money! Like £52,800-a-lot-of-money.
HTC’s reportedly got a trio of new phones on the way for MWC next week named the “One” series. A press shot of the biggest of them all, the 4.7-inch 720p HD-screened beast, the One X, has slipped out and you can tell it’s an HTC.
MWC is right around the corner, but that hasn’t stopped NEC spilling its guts and showing off a trio of new Android 4.0-packing phones in Japan today, including a fancy-looking clamshell tablet-come-phone to rival the Sony Tablet P.
I was always confused at why Apple bothered making a contacts 'app' since it was nothing more than a shortcut for what was already inside the contacts tab in phone app. There was no imagination to it! Buzz Contacts is a contacts app that's actually useful: it's faster, better and looks reaaaally good.
We've been hearing for years that integrated graphics—meaning your computer doesn't have its own, separate graphics card—won't catch up to the beefier cards, but it'll be good enough some day soon. Hasn't happened yet. But these reported benchmarks of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors from CPU World look pretty promising.
Here's a tip for you iPhone users: if you want to quickly open your last email draft in iOS, just hold down the compose email button for a few seconds. Your last email draft will open up right away. Nice.
Almost every piece of modern electronics has a wireless-connectivity option—TVs, alarm clocks, refrigerators, even thermostats. With all these devices competing for bandwidth—not to mention the demands of streaming media—network performance will suffer. Qualcomm Atheros' new gigabit-capable 802.11ac chips should give these devices some breathing room.
Listen up Trekkies: Here’s your chance to own a piece of previously unreleased Star Trek history. Norman Spinrad, writer of arguably the best Original Series episode, The Doomsday Machine, also wrote another one, He Walked Among Us, which never got made. Now you can own and read the full, unbastardised original script for just £6.
Condoms exist in that uncomfortable category of things we accept as part of everyday life, but don't spend too much thinking—much less talking—about. That's silly. To help break the ice, here's a stimulating look at how Trojan condoms are made, because you really shouldn't put anything on your (or your partner's) junk without knowing where it comes from, right?
Increasing your camera's ISO setting improves its ability to see in the dark, but it can also lead to artifacts in your images that look like millions of tiny dots, known as noise. But where exactly does it come from?
Sky’s created the most amazing five-minute long trailer for its upcoming F1 coverage, which plays out more like a movie. No matter what you think of Sky, I defy any F1 fan to watch this and not get excited – just make sure you’ve got the sound on.
