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A support and advice website for families is pushing for a National Unplugging Day to take place in the UK on the 28th of June which will encourage parents and youngsters to disconnect from the web and put down their smartphones, laptops and other electrical items for a full 24 hours. A similar scheme was employed in the United States in March with some reasonable success and MyFamilyClub.co.uk is hoping the same can go ahead over here…

Water wings are great. But if you really want to get your child in the right position for swimming try the children’s swim aid the Sevylor Puddle Jumper. The belt immediately supports the child’s head out of the water and you can easily let go so your toddler can experiment in the pool free from you holding him/her. The belt supports the child in both forward and back positions. Our tester was 18 months old. At £12.99 this…

Malaga airport car hire, read on: Car Hire at Malaga airport seems cheap. But beware there are a few things you should know as a traveller. We hired a car from AVIS, a VW POLO. The key thing is once you have landed and cleared your bags you descend to the car hire desks. However take this advice. The queues at the desks can be horrendous. The company Gold car which is the cheapest have huge lines-The wait can be a couple of hours. The last thing…

The best things in life are free, and what better a way to spend an evening than in a bar watching the new Game Of Thrones? Watching the blockbuster fantasy show in a drinking establishment surrounded by strangers is becoming a sort of cultural phenomenon in the US, with bars offering themed nights for the showings and all sorts of other amenities. However, HBO are not happy about heir show being broadcast in public. For one thing, their…

It might sound odd but according to a new study being thirsty might just have an effect on your performance behind the wheel. More to the point, a lack of hydration can impair your brain, making you much more dangerous on the road, even as dangerous as if you had been drinking alcohol, the study found. Obviously when you get dehydrated it has an effect on the brain, which is quite a watery organ. In fact it’s roughly 75% water, which…

IBM’s Watson supercomputing platform has been around for roughly four years now, and is always managing to surpass expectations and wow the public with it’s unprecedented ability to carry out clever functions. Recently, Chef Watson, a food oriented ‘cognitive cooking system’ developed in partnership with the Institute of Culinary Education, has been helping chefs pick out ingredients in the kitchen.…

Earlier in the week we reported on a new technology from Google designed to sniff out and tag spoilers for TV shows in your web browser. Lo and behold, the need for such a technology has never before been so needed, as somebody on the Game of Thrones team just managed to leak the first four episodes of the massive show to the internet. Yes, this does mean you can illegally download them and one-up other fans. Following the announcement…