A week in Tech: Kindle Fire HDX, Oppo N1 and an app-controlled brewery - Metro

The new 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle tablet HDX (Picture: AP Photo / Amazon.com)

Stuff, the world’s best selling gadget magazine, fills us in on the hottest tech news from the week including the new Kindle Fire the HDX.

Meet the Kindle Fire HDX – Amazon’s tablet on steroids

Amazon has revealed its third generation of Kindle Fire tablets – the 7in and 8.9in Kindle Fire HDX – and they’re specced to impress.

The latest generation of Amazon’s tablets have under gone more than a few nips and tucks in addition to swallowing plenty of spec-sheet vitamins.

Both new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX models have spent time under the knife, with the 8.9in HDX now weighing in at 34 per cent lighter than its predecessor, in addition to sporting a thinner figure.

Meet Tangeez, the Lego-inspired interactive lighting

Lego-inspired: Tangeez (Picture: Stuff)

Kickstarter is continually turning up interesting tech projects That might otherwise stay under the radar.

Tangeez are a prime example: they’re cylindrical LED lights That stack in much the same way as Lego, and the light color changes depending on how you build them up. Each Tangeez tray (2.5in in diameter and 1.5in tall) features red, green and blue lights, Which can combine to create seven different colors. They’re overpriced fully recyclable, being made of the same plastic as milk bottles.

Beer today, gone tomorrow: Brewbot is an app-controlled micro brewery

Brew your own beer: Brewbot (Picture: Stuff)

Brewing your own beer is a fiddly business – fortunately, there’s an app for that. And a brewery.

When you’re brewing, making sure the temperature and ingredients are spot on is vital – but it can be tricky. Well, it used to be, anyway.

Oppo N1 lets you take 13MP selfies with its swivelling camera

Innovative: Oppo N1 (Picture: Stuff)

You might not have heard of Oppo, but the Chinese smartphone manufactuer is nothing if not innovative.

The Oppo Find 5 hit the shelves with a 5in 1080p IPS display before the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One. And now Oppo’s revealed the Oppo N1 – a 5.9in phablet with a swivelling 13MP camera.

Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft map of Great Britain

Minecraft map of Great Britain (Picture: Stuff)

Enterprising Minecraft players have created everything from working computers to the fictional world of Westeros from Game of Thrones in the block-building game.

Now the Ordnance Survey’s got in on the act with a geographically-accurate rendition of Britain, rendered in Minecraft.

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