Who Will Service The Billions of ‘IoT’ Devices?
By Dave Hart, Vice President of Global Customer Transformation for field service management specialist, ServiceMax. In less than five years, Gartner tells us that there will be more than 26 billion different connected devices in our homes, cars and businesses. All designed to make our lives easier and facilitate tasks for us – and that figure doesn’t even include personal computers, tablets and smartphones. As the Internet of Things (IoT) converges with servitisation, machine to machine learning, 3D printing and...
The Importance of Play – Playday 2015
By Jasmine Stephens, Family Editor Play is essential for children's development. It sounds obvious when you put it like that, but opportunities for kids to play are being lost all the time by everything from cuts to local services such as Children's Centres and playgrounds, to a more risk-averse society, to an increase in traffic, to the change in the socially-accepted level of parental supervision. You simply cannot have a fulfilling childhood without play. A child cannot achieve their potential...
Adam Cleaver releases surreal video for latest single ‘The Salt Mine’
Adam Cleaver has returned with his latest single 'The Salt Mine', released on 15th June 2015 via Veta Records. Ready yourself for chilled vibes a la Bon Iver, colourful facepaint and some slightly unnerving optical illusions in the new video, which you can watch below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HoQNbjJmo&feature=youtu.be Check out more from Adam on Soundcloud.
Check Out – Pusher
By Adam Turner (@AdamTurnerPR) Widely tipped as one of Scotland's most up-and-coming bands, The Lafontaines were performing their first headline London gig at the Barfly last week. I decided to pop down to see what all the fuss was about. But it wasn't this pop-rock, hip-hop, rap-savvy (more genres than you can fit in a reasonably sized record box) quintet that impressed, but the murky, haunting sounds of their Elbow/Tame Impala-esque support act, Pusher. The grunge-ridden top floor room of the Barfly...
Restaurant Review – Avenue
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor If I’m honest I have never seen an episode of Sex and City, but the idea of the glamour and glitz of dining and drinking in Manhattan does appeal, but I guess it does for almost everyone. Well, The Avenue restaurant on St James’s Street, just off of Piccadilly offers just that. The building looks the part, to be fair it already did, as it was originally designed by American architect Rick Mather in 1996....
Radames Juni Figueroa Pop-Up Exhibition Space To Open In Fitzrovia
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Central London’s Edel Assanti are set to present the debut UK solo exhibition from Puerto Rican artist Radames Juni Figueroa. Opening on June 12th, the site-specifically designed installation will be open until July 31st and is set to merge art, cocktails, concerts and live performances. All of these will be transmitted from a Tree House within the venue that’s constructed from materials inspired by the tropical rainforest and the streets of San Juan where...
Variant Space: exploring the female Muslim experience through art
A truly modern collective, Variant Space founders Nasreen Raja and Nasreen Shaikh Jamal Al Lail met not at art school or in a studio, but on Instagram. We caught up with one half of the team to learn more about their London-based, all female, all Muslim, creative collective. Both artists identify as British Muslims but with deep connections to other places, and explore ideas of identity, culture, faith and gender through their work. Nasreen Raja specialises in printed textiles, inspired by...
Five Money Habits that should be Extinct
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent None of us are perfect, but being a dinosaur with your dough can cost us hundreds of pounds each year. From auto-renewals to payday loans, there are a copious amount of money traps out there eating into your bank balance, which is why now is as good a time as any to be reviewing how you deal with your personal finances. As Jurassic World roars into UK cinemas this week, Money Expert Andy Webb from the...
Most Common Wine Faux Revealed
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent In London, drinking wine from the bottle may be frowned upon, but at times it is downright necessary. Indeed, it is one of 20 wine commonly-committed wine faux pas revealed in a study of 2,000 Brits which found almost a third of Brits (30 per cent) admit to ‘necking’ their wine, rather than savouring the taste and flavour. Ten per cent of them have tried to open a screwcap with a corkscrew at least once, while...