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The diminutive Apple TV has been out a while now and was updated just a few months ago when the new iPad was released. We’ve managed to get our hands on one recently and had a play around with it, so here our a few observations about this lovely little machine from Apple, that still officially remains a “hobby” despite selling in ever increasing numbers…

The excellent Nokia Lumia 900 lands in British stores today. It’s the very latest Windows Phone model that just might help to revive Nokia’s fortunes - due to its impressive combination of features, style, capabilities and individuality. The phone has been available in the US for several months now, but will UK consumers be swayed from the ever-expanding range of Android handsets and of course the massively popular iPhone…?

We’ve all seen the Star Wars movies and marvelled at the amazing lightsaber weapons that Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and even Yoda fling around with abandon and dexterity. I’m sure that many of us had fake plastic ones as kids, but who’d have thought that those futuristic laser-based weapons were in fact “real” and could be bought online? Well, it’s not strictly a real lightsaber but its pretty much the closest thing that you can get…

The current crop of games consoles are slowly starting to get a little long in the tooth, with the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and even the PS3 showing signs of age. However, gone are the days when new consoles were launched every couple of years, and the technology landscape has changed significantly in recent times. The current generation machines are due to be replaced within the next year or two, and there have been recent rumours that the Xbox 360 will be imminently replaced by the long-anticipated Xbox 720….read on for some of the latest news...

The long-awaited Samsung Galaxy S3 has finally been unveiled to the public for the first time, with a host of new features and hardware improvements that should help it stay at the top of the smartphone pile for some time to come. Here’s a quick lowdown on the features of the new device, which is expected to hit the shops at the end of this month.

Last week, the Sinclair Spectrum (often affectionately called “the speccy”) turned an incredible 30 years old. One of the greatest British computing inventions of all time truly revolutionised the way we think about home computing, and it turned a generation into tech-savvy programmers. We take a brief look at the wonder machine that quite rightly deserves a fond place on our hearts…

Our readers may not be aware that our very own Sam Hargreaves is one of the upcoming young stars of the business world - on Monday this week he was named as the London regional finalist of the Local Business Accelerators competition, in which he seriously impressed the judges with his innovative startup company Gadgets4Everyone (that's us!!). The company's success is down to Sam’s originality, determination and drive over the last few years, and if he wins the next round of the competition, he could even be mentored by Deborah Meaden from the BBC's Dragons Den...

Sony recently launched the SmartWatch in the US, featuring a 1.3-inch OLED colour display and Bluetooth 3.0 all miniaturised into a small form factor that clips to a watchband or even your clothing (a bit like Apple's iPod Shuffle). The watch costs around $150 but also requires a compatible Android smartphone to let you view all kinds of apps on your wrist such as Email, Facebook, and Twitter. But is this futuristic hi-tech gadget worth the money, and will it herald in a new era of innovative wearable computing…?

The new iPad has been out for a while now, and people are realising just how good the Retina Display really is. In fact, it makes the original iPad and iPad 2 look distinctly old hat.  Even the old apps should look better on the new screen, but it’s a good idea to get a few new apps that make use of the increased resolution on the new iPad. Here are the top 5 apps in no particular order...

Mobile phone photography has really taken off in recent years with the advances in smartphone camera technology - very high resolution that rivals digital cameras, and fairly decent lenses. Of course, a picture taken on a mobile phone rarely rivals that taken on a proper stills camera (especially high end D-SLR’s), but the immediacy of having your phone with you and the ease at which you can then edit and share those photos has helped its popularity explode. Here’s our rundown of some of the best Android photo-taking and editing apps...

The MacBook has become a very successful laptop for Apple - so much so that it’s steadily eating into traditional PC sales as more people realise that the Mac is a fantastic machine, especially if you already own one or more Apple devices such as an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Now boasting a respectable 10% market share, the Mac is still considered as one of the best consumer machines, and anybody that uses both Mac OS X and Windows will surely appreciate the attraction of Apple’s machines where everything 'just works'. There are rumours afoot that new and more powerful MacBooks with some tempting new features could even be released this month…

From the outside it looks exactly the same as the iPad 2,
it's what's on the inside that deemed to make this the best iPad yet. 
But since it's release in March it has run up a number of problems causing disappointment for many customers.

A while back we covered the Google Goggles project, which was at the time just a rumour that many didn't really believe until now. It seems that the "augmented reality" glasses are in fact real and are being developed by Google to give the wearer real-time heads-up information about the world around you. Google has this week confirmed the news and posted a Google+ page and YouTube video...

Since the release of Siri for the iPhone 4S, voice recognition for smartphones seems to be all the rage as a way to interact with your smartphone and find any kind of information you could desire. But as well as Siri, there’s another similar app that's been available in the App Store for a while now called Evi, which strives to achieve the same functionality as Siri does. Fortunately, it’s also available for Android too...read on to discover what we thought of this nifty little app...

For most students, they would only think to list a small handful of gadgets that they use everyday, but because mostly everything is technology-based they are in fact using a lot more gadgets than supposedly thought.

Typically, a student will wake in the morning and prepare themselves for the day. Getting ready alone will depict how many gadgets are actually going to be used throughout their day, as many will use Hair Dryers, Electric Shavers, Hair Straighteners or Tongs and Electric Toothbrushes in the morning. Once they have got themselves ready, they will pack a bag, which for a few will not only include books, but also be a Calculator in there too. Already, a majority of them have already used at least two or three gadgets since they have woke up.

Just before they leave, if they do not live locally and have to commute, then most will take iPod's or MP3 players for the journey, which will of course have Headphones too. And once they get to School, College or University, this is where even more gadgets will be used throughout the day and because technology is so widely used, half of these people wouldn't think twice about using them.

For most, the majority of their chosen subjects will involve using a Computer, this could involve printing off Coursework, which would mean they would need a printer. For most Schools, Colleges and Universities, they will use an Electronic Payment System, which of course is a gadget within itself. Many doors within the premises could be coded or need a special identity card to get in and this will also class as another gadget.

Once they have travelled back home, if they do not go out, then most are more than likely to sit at their Computers/Laptops and either talk online to their friends or use it to complete their Coursework. For some they could even be with friends which could lead to taking pictures, or even taking pictures of themselves to upload onto Facebook. By this point, at least over half of these students have probably used around five of the gadgets stated.

The most important gadget of all, and certain that 99.9% of students have is a Mobile Phone. Throughout their day, this would have been used constantly. To text or call a friend outside of School, College or University, a friend in another class, or even someone sitting right next to them. This is the ultimate gadget that a student will use the most throughout their day and surely through the whole of their teenage years.

Every April Fool’s Day there are a slew of gadget-related joke products announced. The canny amongst you will have noticed that we didn’t stoop so low as to scoop the new iPhone 5 or pull the wool over your eyes with a holographic TV set, but we did scour the Internet to see what amazing products others had come up with, and the very best of these surely has to be...

At Gadgets4Everyone we're mad about gadgets, but we often overlook laptops and computers in favour of smartphones, gaming devices and other weird and wonderful gadgets. Apple's MacBook Air range has been incredibly successful, and also prompted Intel to define the ultrabook category, largely designed to compete with the Air by offering very thin and light computers but with enough power for the majority of tasks. There are a host of new ultrabooks coming out in 2012, and in this post we take a brief gander some rumours and news from Qualcomm…

There’s a wild rumour going around that the highly anticipated successor to Sony’s Playstation 3 might be already in development and will be called the Orbis. This is according to a well known Japanese gaming site called Kotaku. A "reliable source" claims the information is correct, but we’ll just have to make do with some wild speculation for the moment…

Mobile phones are an indispensable part of our everyday lives, and there’s nothing we like more than compiling a Top 5 list of the hottest smartphones that you can lay your hands on. You might disagree with the following selection, but any of these phones are worthy contenders for your hard earned cash. Read on to find out some of the very best smartphones (in no particular order) ...

The iPad 3 new iPad has only just been released and there are already loads of great accessories available for it. Most of the existing iPad 2 accessories work on the new model, but there have been a slew of new cases and other innovative accessories released to take advantage of the new momentum of the new model. Read to on find out some of the best accessories that are available at the moment.