Japanese food is a bit like Japan itself – famous for certain things, but nobody really understands the whole thing. Say “Japan” and people think ruthless efficiency, technological excellence and superfast trains. Say “Japanese...

One thing that we should perhaps spend a bit more time thinking about is whether we use all this amazing modern technology to spend too much time looking forwards. We seem to be obsessed with what we might be able to do next month, next year, or in...

Deep down inside all of us, there’s a sneaking desire that one day, many years from now, people will build museums in our honour or name streets after us. You know, just to acknowledge our contribution to society and all round awesomeness. That...

Most of us will know somebody whose holidays are just that little bit more daring.

Their pub conversations are littered with modest little comments like: “there was this one time when I was trekking through the foothills of the Andes...

Designer. There’s a word that has subtly changed in meaning over the years. It used to be somebody who made a living creating things that nobody else had thought of before.

But these days, it’s become an adjective. Saying something...

For experienced eBay sellers there are some golden rules.

These are: don’t set a silly reserve price, don’t pay for a gallery (link your images from another site) and don’t get Marjorie from next door to model your mum’s...

Watching a talented digital artist at work is quite mesmerising. The way they navigate their way through the brushes, tools and myriad effects in programs like Photoshop and Illustrator makes the eyes water and the mind boggle.

Most people...

Regular readers will know that we at Pocket-Lint do love a bargain. Show us a good deal and we're likely to get quite animated about it, and the recent explosion in discount voucher sites has suited us quite nicely, thank you.

Do we need another...

The production of good wine takes years of experience, a lot of time, days of uninterrupted sunshine, a particular type of soil and a particular type of terrain. Doesn’t it?

Well, actually no, it doesn’t.

Can caravanning ever be cool? As somebody who spent way, way too many family holidays stuck in a wheeled 14 x 7 aluminum shrine to Formica and floral curtains, I’m not so sure.

But those childhood excursions...

Lady Gaga. Now, got your attention didn't it? Love her or hate her, you just have to take a step back and admire what she's done. She's conquered the globe in no time at all and she's done it all through clever marketing of her own image.

A...

Just like Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Heidi Klum Guitar Hero ad and Bret Easton Ellis's biting satire of the eighties American Psycho, some of the best things in life have been banned. Usually it's on grounds of taste –...

That fabulous Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The ominous slab of dark material in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. How about Yoda's walking stick. Or the ice pick from Basic Instinct? The spinning top from Inception? Think you could...

Google.

The upstart start-up that became a global superpower. The quirky brand that became a ubiquitous verb. The online search engine that became our atlas, our office, our supermarket and now our provider of regular reading matter.

Even in this ultra-modern age of online banner ads, sponsored tweets and social networking “commercial takeovers” some of the best advertising space is still the old school, low-fi posters you see stuck to the side of buses.

That’s...

So there we were, the whole Pocket-Lint team sat round a conference table (OK, so it was a pub table, and we'd been there a while by this stage) and the conversation turned to the old staple of any, ahem, conference: the "wouldn't it be great if they...

Before  digital cameras came along, photography was something for the "enthusiast". It was considered a hobby, a pastime, a passion.  If you had the skills, you could even turn it into living, and if you were half decent, and very lucky, it could be...

Stuff.

We love it, you love it. In fact, we just can’t get enough of it. Pocket-Lint probably wouldn’t even exist if it wasn’t for our love of stuff, so when some thieving little scrote decides to shimmy up your drainpipe...

Some things just go together: fish and chips, strawberries and cream, real ale and pork scratchings. Do you also remember that night at the Brit Awards, when New Order went with Kylie? Who would‘ve thought it?

The humble mashup came to...

The dreaded slide deck. If you spend your life drifting in and out of meetings for a living, you’ll know that as soon as you hear that phrase “I’ve got just a small slide deck to share” then you know that the interminable hours...

Gaming ain’t what it used to be. Certainly not if the recent issues Sony have had with its PlayStation network are anything to go by, anyway.

But once upon a time, and it really doesn’t feel like it was all that long ago, the humble...

It's been quite a patriotic few weeks here in Blighty, what with the royal wedding and all that. So it's no real surprise that this little jaunt from British Airways is proving quite popular.

They're looking for the next generation of great...

It's possible that you've reached a point in your life where you're reasonably successful. Perhaps you've got the job you've always wanted and your love life is on track too.  Maybe you've even put your feet firmly in the property ladder....

This is another one of those sites where we really wish we’d been in the room when they were discussing the name. Whoever game up with www.ntrails.com is either a certified genius or a stranger to the English language.

No, it’s...

You've got to hand it to Sodastream. They could've just ridden the wave of nostalgia that's sweeping the globe and crossed their fingers and hoped for the best. No doubt somebody would have picked up the homemade drinks fountain as a suitable object...