For me, the Olympics are over. As I sat on my train home having left the Olympic Park on Friday for the last time, panicking that I had yet to iron a shirt for the wedding I was supposed to be attending in the morning, a sense of irrevocable sadness...

Team GB’s Men’s Hockey team have been denied the opportunity to repeat history and face Germany in Saturday’s Gold Medal match after suffering a heavy 9-2 defeat at the hands of the Netherlands on Thursday night.

It has been 20 years since Great Britain last won an Olympic medal in...

My Olympic week began in precisely the same way as I imagine it did for most people; sat in my living room waiting for the Opening Ceremony to start with Twitter open - ready to unleash a tidal wave of creative criticism about everything we were about to see.

If anything could cause a breakdown in the ‘special relationship’ between the United Kingdom and America over the past couple of decades, it would be sport - specifically, the idea of our American ‘friends’ knocking us out of an Olympic event on our own soil (well, in our own water)....

Shop owners on Leyton High Road, a typical east London high street, had high expectations in the months leading up to the Olympic Games.

Sitting in the shadow of the Olympic site at Stratford, the busy street was spruced up with bright colours usually reserved for up-market...

After poor attendances and empty seats at some of the early events, how reassuring for the Olympic organisers to see a nearly full house at one of Olympic Park's open-air venues - the River Bank arena - for a preliminary stage Men's Hockey match between Great Britain and Argentina.

Every week it seems a new entry level smartphone is thrown into the market, with features resembling the big-boys of the smartphone world but scaled back enough to appeal to those who want their handset to behave like a phone, rather than some kind of life-engulfing personal communication centre.

It’s no secret that Nokia have struggled to make a great impression on the smartphone market.

While the company’s flagship Lumia 800 smartphone was widely praised - and the soon to be released Lumia 900 has also won its fans, Nokia’s budget smartphone, the Lumia 710, failed to capture the...

If you own a smartphone and have even a remote interest in photography, you will find yourself spoilt for choice in the range of applications on offer.

Should the enormously popular Instagram not tickle your fancy then there are countless rivals doing a pretty similar job.

The internet nearly exploded earlier this week when Spotify finally unveiled their long awaited iPad app.

The new apps means that Spotify's premium customers can finally do whatever it was they were unable to do on their smartphone and desktop versions of the software.

Basking in its...

Owning a pocket-sized portable internet connection ready to use wherever you are has never been so appealing.

As everything online moves towards the fast go-anywhere connection of smartphones, tablets and netbooks, and the drab experience of sitting at a desktop becomes something we reminisce about, more and more devices...

New phones are launched every month, new games consoles are released every year and adverts for new gadgets are forced into our eyeballs on every webpage, TV break and glossy magazine page.

You could be forgiven for letting it all wash over you, as these seemingly identical devices are...

Last month the internet was awash with nostalgia and sorrow when Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that they were going to stop printing their world famous volumes after years of having to play second fiddle to online resources.

Britannica said at the time that they would instead focus...

Is this the best value for money smartphone? With a four-inch screen, a five megapixel camera and access to Android’s ever-growing app store, at £100 on pay as you go, the Huawei Ascend G 300 looks to be a serious contender for this title.

The G 300’s price...

With their enormous bright screens and stunning looks, HTC's latest lineup of smartphones created quite a splash when they were announced at this year's Mobile World Congress.

The HTC One S is marketed as being the sleek and sexy younger sibling of the widely praised

What do the words "scrap metal" mean to you?

A target for thieves? A valuable asset? Or, do they inspire dreams of creating towering model robots?

Meet the creations of Chinese artists Kefeng Zhu and Zhou Feng, whose scrap-metal masterpieces can currently be seen in China.

Kefeng Zhu's...

The sight of a handheld games console being carried around an art gallery could make many art lovers recoil in horror. Games? In a gallery? Oh the cultural clash that raises.

As of this month, visitors to the Louvre in Paris will be encouraged to fiddle with handheld devices,...