Tech and Auto

A teacher has decided to ditch her job as a £2k a month teacher to make a living playing Pokemon Go. It may seem far-fetched to many but it seems that it is possible to make substantial sums of money from the game. Sophia Pedraza, 26, plans to cash in on the craze sweeping the planet by walking the streets trying to collect virtual characters. Once she has built up her Pokemon accounts she plans to sell them on eBay....

British athletes are training using 360° and 3D simulations of course layouts ahead of major competitions. Digital headset technologies are being used to integrate 3D video in new ways, aimed at providing a real benefit to a wide variety of summer sports including sailing, canoe slalom and triathlon and potentially winter sports such as bob sled, skeleton and ski slalom. The new project, named VR-Vantage, is the latest development in an eight-year technology partnership between BAE Systems and UK Sport....

Product review: Epson eh-tw5350 Projector Now I am not going to lie, I was a little daunted at the prospect of reviewing a projector as it seemed like a bit of a boring gadget to me (it just reminded me of giving presentations at work) and a bit to techy, but for some reason my husband insisted that we needed to take a look at this product right now. I wasn't sure why he was so keen for me to...

Looking for Pokémon Go help, no need! Startup offers professional Pokémon Go Trainers to time-strapped gamers Bidvine.com, A site connecting customers with local service professionals is now offering people the chance to hire Professional Pokémon Go Players. The site is also recruiting members of the public who want to provide Professional Pokémon Go Player help and services to other players willing to pay for the help. A London-based startup has partnered up with a number of service providers, offering the...

Late last year a study conducted by the University of Birmingham revealed an over-reliance on using computers and search engines is weakening people's memories. But could an over-reliance on smartphones also be weakening our emotional memory functions? According to academic research, the trend of looking up information rather than retrieving it from memory "prevents the build-up of long-term memories". The memory habits of 6,000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, found more than a...

We certainly live in a digital world. Although digital technology has been around for the last few decades (think digital watches from the 1970s), the turn of the millennium has seen a marked increase in the movement away from analogue and towards digital technology. In fact, when you look through the various aspects of our life that are now dominated by digital technology, you'll see why our opening statement is true. Indeed, from entertainment to dating on apps such as...

Sammy Screamer is a movement sensor that can be attached to pretty much anything to monitor if it moves alerting the owner via an alarm and app notification. All good things come in small packages and this is no exception.   The little screamer itself is so tactile and the colour just pops when you open the box. The set up is amazingly easy even for a technophobe like me.  Download an app and you are pretty much good to go....

Making sure as much money as possible goes towards philanthropic projects is extremely important to the National Lottery so with each and every ticket sold a large sum goes to a variety of projects. Less than 1% of the total revenue from the sale of lottery tickets is kept as profit after tax and 4% goes for operating costs. Believe it or not it has amounted to the grand amount of £35 billion spread over 450,000 projects. You’ll be happy...

Germany is the most Googled word in Syria, according to the search engine's marketing Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Yonca Brunini. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Google marketing Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she revealed that Khloe Kardashian’s ex-husband Lamar Odom topped the 2015 Google searches for the rest of the world, demonstrating the disparity across the world in internet use and the accessing of information through search engines....