Behind the scenes, Design, Technology
To infinity and beyond…well, not quite, but the future is bright for those of you who want to reach the outer regions of the Earth’s atmosphere and skydive back down to the ground. (more…)
April 1st, 2010
The poor boffins at Nintendo don’t seem to get any holiday. Less than a year after the DSi landed in our hands, the powers that be appear to have decided the fold-up isn’t packing enough inches – not that the existing 113m users worldwide seem to be complaining. (more…)
February 24th, 2010
Here at Esquire, we’re big fans of a spot of vintage Schwarzenegger, so it’s no surprise we like the look of Rebellion’s remake of 1999’s classic Aliens Vs Predator shooter. (more…)
February 17th, 2010
The eternally tricky issue of how to make a Bluetooth headset stylish is a challenge Jawbone has tackled with aplomb, thanks in no small part to its judicious use of industrial designer Yves Behar. Now in its fourth iteration, the forthcoming Icon is the smallest and most efficient Jawbone yet. Here are five reasons why it’s our technological ear-warmer of choice. (more…)
February 16th, 2010
It being perfect stay-indoors-and-watch-Mad-Men weather, we’ve managed to sweet talk those amiable folk at Sony into providing a brace of stylish Blu-ray players for two lucky Esquire readers. (more…)
February 12th, 2010
In the unlikely event you missed the media frenzy surrounding last night’s launch of the hallowed iPad (all credit to you if you did), here are the basics: it’s going to be big – bigger than the iPhone that is, and a little smaller than a standard laptop – with a 9.7-inch colour screen, up to 10 hours of battery life, WiFi, optional 3G and a virtual bookstore (called iBooks, natch). Read all about it (and the other tablet PCs blazing a digital trail in 2010) in our new eight-page technology section in the April issue of Esquire (on sale 4 March).
January 28th, 2010
Earlier this week, Esquire travelled to Las Vegas to navigate the 2,700 exhibitors at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s our pick of the technological highlights coming your way over the next 12 months: (more…)
January 8th, 2010
Books, Entertainment, Gaming, Technology
Mr T plays them, Ozzy Osbourne grudgingly admits that he’s not as scary as some of them, and Ant & Dec fall out over them. No longer the preserve of socially inept adolescents, computer games are now possibly the world’s biggest industry. Fun Inc, the new book by Tom Chatfield, has some interesting theories on how this came to be, and what we can expect in the future. (more…)
January 7th, 2010
