Author: James

Go back in time to the turn of the Millennium, and having a home cinema within your personal living space was the lifestyle perk of the privileged few, mainly associated with aspirational properties and with the associated price tag to match. The Home Cinema vision was one of a large projector with flexible roll down screen, along with a leather settee and mini fridge in the corner of the room. Brilliant at that moment in time, but it lacked that ultimate visual clarity and needed a large room in order for you to be able to focus properly on...

How many times have you been in a shop intending to buy rechargeable batteries for your myriad portable devices but then changed your mind at the last minute, opting instead for the seemingly much cheaper multi-pack batteries? Most of us have been there – but this approach really doesn’t make any sense. It’s understandable that many people remain reticent, but the truth is that re-chargeable batteries can be of patchy quality, so it’s important to realise that they aren’t all the same and, perhaps more to the point, that the technology has moved on at a remarkable pace. It’s...