Top Photographers Pick Their Favourite Pictures

December 3, 2015

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Photographers who’ve featured on the 7dayshop blog pick their favourite images from the past 12 months. From the world of rock to space, aircraft, insects and landscapes, our photographers reveal why these images mean so much and how they took them. In no particular order, here they are – we hope you enjoy this gallery as much as we did putting it together. A View of Locbroom – Karen Appleyard This was taken on the descent of Meall Mor in the Scottish Highlands. It…

Black Friday 2015 Could Be A UK Record Breaker (And Yes 7dayshop Is Taking Part)

November 18, 2015

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Black Friday 2015, In The News

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Online retail sales are predicted to top £1 billion in a single day for the first time ever in the UK during this year’s Black Friday. Spending is expected to jump by almost a third this coming Black Friday on Friday 27 November to £1.07 billion compared to last year when £810 million was splashed out by shoppers – and it’s been put down to increased consumer awareness of deals offers by retailers in the run-up to Christmas. The figures have been…

Word Of The Year 2015 Isn’t A Word But A Picture Emoji

November 17, 2015

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A picture of a face crying with joy has been named as the ‘word’ of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. The official name for this emoji is ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ – and was selected as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015, according to the dictionary people. This emoji (pictograph) was chosen because it was the most globally used in 2015, while the use of the word emoji in English has more than tripled…

RIP Betamax – Sony will finally kill off Betamax video cassettes in 2016

November 10, 2015

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You might have thought the Betamax video format died a long time ago, but it turns out that Sony has continued to sell the cassettes – that is until next year. The Japanese electronics company has announced that it will stop shipping Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The format was originally developed in 1975, but ultimately lost out to VHS video cassettes in the 1980s. At its peak, around 50 million Betamax cassettes were sold in 1984 while Betamax video recording equipment sold…

Remember, Remember? Classic Public Information Films For Bonfire Night

November 5, 2015

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Watch these classic public information films from the 1970s, which continued to be shown for many years after and are remembered by generations of kids. Firework Safety: Bandage Fireworks Safety : Recipe Firework Safety: Bangers Firework Safety: Sparklers UK firework safety code Children should watch fireworks at a safe distance and follow the safety rules for using sparklers. Only adults should light fireworks and deal with firework displays. Make sure you dispose of used fireworks safely. Follow these safety guidelines at your…

‘Star Trek and Star Wars’ Tractor Beam Invented!

November 3, 2015

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Eat your heart out Captain Kirk – tractor beam that uses SOUND can hold, move and even rotate objects without physical contact. We’ve all seen tractor beams in science fiction films from Star Trek to Star Wars to pull in smaller ships, but now a UK based team has developed an actual tractor beam that works. A sonic tractor beam Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, put together 64 miniature loudspeakers to create high-pitch…

007 Spectre-acular Gadgets To Delight Any Spy

October 22, 2015

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From 7dayshop.com with love, we present a rundown of 7 Quality gadgets essential for any everyday mission! 1. Memory Stick Keep all those top files and data securely stored and with you at all times. USB flash drives are compact, easy to use and can 256GB storage capacity. That’s a lot of storage for photos, movies, files, music and more. To see the full range now available at 7dayshop.com, click here or on the photo below. 2. In Car Camera Record all…

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Back To The Future Day: October 21 – The Day Marty McFly Arrived In 2015

October 20, 2015

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Back To The Future

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Great Scott! Here’s 7 things that Back To The Future II correctly and wrongly predicted about 2015! Starring Michael J Fox as Marty McFly, the Back To The Future film franchise about a time travelling teenager has to be one of the 20th century’s most iconic films. It has spawned an army of fans and even it’s own official website and hashtag #BTTF2015! But just what did it get right when it imagined what life would look like in 2015 when…

Can’t Remember Phone Numbers – Blame The Internet!

October 7, 2015

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Many of us have to look up phone numbers that we might once have remembered and it’s the internet’s fault, says a new study. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab surveyed 6,000 consumers agred 16 and above in six European countries and found that more than half of adults (up to 60 percent) could recall their home phone number from when they were aged 10. But they couldn’t remember their children’s numbers (53 percent) or work (51 percent) without looking up the number…

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Computers Set To Get A Lot Faster – Here’s Why

October 6, 2015

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Quantum computing breakthrough could could help pave the way to artificial intelligence and other transformative developments, some people believe Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have used affordable silicon, the material already used in chips for our smartphones, computers and tablets. The news is important because regular computers read data as binary bits – 0 or 1 – but quantum computing allows for a quantum bit – a qubit – to exist in both states at once thanks to…

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