Vinyl records sales soar
For most people the thought of buying a vinyl record is something that happened around twenty plus years ago, but with the introduction of digital recordings, the famous black vinyl records began to fade away into the history books.
However, as with many products, if they are good enough they just keep coming back and this [...]
Living near alcohol is dangerous for kids
A recent study has found that the closer that a teenager lives alcohol retailers the greater the chance that they will end up being influenced by drink, this could either mean binge drinking and drinking and driving.
The study showed that home that are within walking distance of the alcohol retailers there is evidence of the [...]
Piracy overtaken by legal downloads
It must be a dream come true for the music industry as recent suggest that finally legal downloads of music have now overtaken illegal downloads and out of interest CD sales are also down.
Fifteen percent of Internet users purchased music from online music stores, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, which is an increase of 2 [...]
December 22, 2008LED’s to save the world
Could something a tiny as an LED actually have a lot to do in saving the world? Well there are some people who believe so.
If these bulbs replaced all of the conventional light bulbs in homes and in business, the saving would be in the trillions, simply because of the fact that these lights use [...]
Will Apple be able to beat Sony and Nintendo?
Apple has been diversifying their product range for a very long time and they have seen some serious success rates like that with the iPod, iPhone and other products too.
However, the games market has eluded them until recently that are, there has been a huge range of applications on the Apple Store website, and in [...]
Children with drinking problems
Shops and stores that sell alcoholic drinks are coming under increasing pressure due to the amount of children and teenagers who are drinking alcohol to excess.
At such a young age, these young drinkers are at a higher risk of suffering from liver disease and cancer. This would normally be expected in adults who drink heavily [...]
Lego that can be eaten
At last toys that can be eaten, this is not from the makers of lego as such, but if they actually put this into production, it would just have to be a winner for the company. Some of the toys around at the moment could be made into edible toys, which is good especially as [...]
November 6, 2008Underwear fitted with GPS
This could be a either a good thing or potentially a bad thing depending on your point of view, this is a new type of underwear which has been fitted with GPS tracking.
Now, for some people it would seen that somebody who was really possessive could in fact keep track of their partner’s movements, whereas [...]
Christmas could be stolen by pirates
This has to be every child’s nightmare, imagine all of those toys and gadgets that are on their way from the Far East in ships, but somewhere off the coast of Somalia, there are pirates waiting to hijack them.
Sounds like a storyline from a children’s Christmas film, but this is really happening and there are [...]
Police filling up with wrong petrol
There was a time when there were only two different pumps at the petrol filling station, but these days pulling up a modern service station can sometime be a case of multiple choice with so many types of fuel to choose from how can you be sure that you are filling up with the right [...]
October 21, 2008Google earns from start page now
One thing about iGoogle is that you can totally control what you are seeing. This is done by adding different widgets and information that are relevant to you, maybe you want to have your Gmail or Google reader on there every time you start, or maybe a feed from somewhere else is appropriate.
Whatever you are [...]
Second-hand stores increase sales
It seems that the credit crunch is having an effect on the High St, but probably not in the way that most people would think. Charity shops, which have been for a long time the haven of the less wealthy people as a source of clothing and other products including items for the home, but [...]
October 8, 2008Exec turned robber
Normally during the lunch break people would go out buy some lunch or even just do some shopping, the shops are normally busy during this period, which just goes to prove this. However, some people have different ideas on what makes a great lunch break.
Take Kevin Pinto from Toronto in Canada, he used his lunch [...]
Great gadgets to buy
It seems that while there may be cutbacks on certain purchases, there is such a love of gadgets and hi-tech equipment that these items are flying off the store shelves and in some cases cannot be made fast enough to keep up with the demand.
With so many new ideas being brought onto the market, just [...]
Krispy Kreme set to expand
The world’s most famous donut store is looking to expand their range of products and stores aboard too. These plans are the company’s way of addressing the fall in sales, which has been happening over the last couple of years.
Could it be that the market for the Krispy Kreme donut is not as great as [...]
Shop worker regrets warranty sales
It can be most annoying when you spend several hundred pounds on something only to get the sales person to ask you if you would like to spend another hundred pound or so on an extended warranty.
This business of warranties has got so bad that even the store staff are getting fed up of them, [...]
Eye scans to pay for shopping
It’s funny how technology from the small and big screen make it into the real world, all be it not in the way that they were first portrayed in the screenplay. Take the use of retina scans, this has been seen in Star Trek and other sci fi shows, now you would expect this to [...]
September 4, 2008Buying groceries on the cheap
The weekly shop has been gradually creeping up in price over the last six months or so, this can mean that for some people who are running their home on a strict budget, the price of the weekly shop is becoming unaffordable.
However, as prices increase on a number of fronts, there is a need to [...]
UK bans iPhone ad
The iPhone has been advertised on the TV for a while now, but it seems that these adverts are now to be banned because the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has deemed them to be misleading.
Complaints were made about the adverts claims that the iPhone gives the user access to all parts of the internet, but [...]
Gay marriage cards on the way
Hallmark is the largest greetings cards company in the US, so they are unlikely to be one of those firms that get things wrong, which is why we should be looking at their latest product. The new line for 2008 is same sex marriage cards in a variety of designs.
This move follows the legalisation of [...]