Category: Gadget Shows
IFA 2018: Harman Kardon launches £549 Citation 500 smart speaker
Harman Kardon has become the latest manufacturer to launch a smart speaker. The Citation 500 is billed as a high-quality intelligent speaker with a sleek, sophisticated design. The manufacturer says the Citation 500, which was awarded with the prestigious EISA Smart Speaker 2018-2019, will deliver superb sound while complementing the aesthetics of your home. Inspired…
Gadget Show Live 2015: Is the Babel Bike the safest bike ever?
Is this the safest bike ever? Or just the most ridiculous looking? Certainly its inventor Crispin Sinclair (any relation to Sir Clive Sinclair of equally ridiculous looking C5 fame anyone?) thinks the former. "It's the biggest step forward in bicycle safety since 1884 when Penny Farthings were replaced with the Rover Safety Bicycle," he told us…
Gadget Show Live: Personal transport everywhere including electric scooters from Smartrax
At Gadget Show Live at the NEC, personal transportation solutions - particularly electric scooters - were everywhere. You practically can't move without being overtaken by someone wheeling around on what looks a bit like a 21st century skateboard. Whereas once all the hype just used to be around the Segway electric scooters which you can't…
Portable pushchair OmniO Rider wins Gadget Show Live British Inventors’ Award
Tech Digest was at The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham today. There were shedloads of interesting products there, mostly from smaller, more innovative companies rather than the bigger names you get at international shows like IFA in Berlin and CES in Las Vegas. One of the most interesting products around is the ‘OmniO…
The Stig to appear at Gadget Show Live to promote AlcoDigital breathalyser test
In what has to be fantastic timing given the interest in Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear at the moment (can't think why), Ben Collins, otherwise known as The Stig, is to appear at this year's Gadget Show Live at the NEC on April 7th. The show sees breathalyser company AlcoDigital andCollins launch the UK’s largest…
MWC 2015 rumours: HTC One M9, Samsung Galaxy S6 and more
The annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is considered by many to be the biggest event in the mobile world - it is, after all, where many of this year's smartphones and tablets will be launched. MWC 2015 is expected to be the usual big affair, and there are plenty of rumours about what might…
The CES Digest: Wearables aren’t ready for the big time… and 7 other bits of news coming out of the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show today
Wearables aren’t ready for the big time, apparently | Shiny Shiny "The geek with a Google Glass in your office might disagree (and yes, some of the Shiny Shiny team too), but according to one company boss at CES 2015 wearable tech still isn’t quite ready for the mass market yet. At Qualcomm‘s press…
Panasonic’s new Toughpad tablets will let you tweet whatever the circumstances
Panasonic is known for its range of Toughpad enterprise tablets, and now it adds two new 5-inch handheld devices to the lineup. Careful, there's a bowl of ice beneath the device... The two new Toughpads are the Android-based F-X1 and the FZ-E1, which runs embedded Windows Phone 8.1. The Toughpads are…
IFA 2013: Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch, ahead of rival Sony device
It's been one of the tech industries worst kept secrets but at IFA 2013 in Berlin, Samsung formally unveiled the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Connecting to to an Android smartphone via Bluetooth, it is around the size of a regular watch…
Gadget Show Live 2013: RAT Stands shows off all new Z3 iPad stand
Admittedly it's not usually that easy to get excited about stands, but trust me this one – dubbed the All New Z3 – is pretty good. It comes from a company with the unfortunate name of RAT Stands who are…
