We’re pleased to bring you an exclusive interview with WiFi Plug Owner and Director, Entrepreneur and Apprentice Candidate, Leon Doyle!

Q: Has being on The Apprentice helped you in business?
A: I think it has massively helped me, you learn a lot when you’re there. Whilst it can portray you quite poorly at times, it is a really positive experience. You are surrounded by intelligent people and you pick up a lot of things that you didn’t know before which you take with you. I’m certainly very glad I went on it.

Q: What would be your advice for anybody wanting to go on the show?
A: I think it’s had it’s day. We got 12M viewers every week the following year they only got 6M but i’d still do it all over again. The exposure is a bonus, the tasks are what made it for me.

Q: What is the best, and the worst, part of The Apprentice?
A: The worst part is probably the crazy schedule! It’s pretty much all go all the time. The best part, I would say, is the challenge of it all. The tasks are really stimulating and I loved the different challenges you were presented with.

Q: How is it living in that house with a group of people that, on screen at least, don’t always get along that well?
A: It’s alright, actually. You don’t have that much downtime so you don’t really get that much of a chance to fall out with people!

Q: What was your biggest regret from doing the show?
A: Erm… that I didn’t win! Actually it’s not that i didn’t win, it’s that i didn’t come second! Winning means splitting 50% of the business with Shuggz, I couldn’t think of anything worse!

Q: Tell us about WiFi Plug, how did it start?
A: My Girlfriend constantly left her hair straighteners on, one day we came home in time to save it from burning down. It got me thinking about ideas and i was actually going to sell it to a leading hair straightening firm but realised it had the ability to covr a multitude of applications so i flew to China met with some engineers and factories and 12 months later it was selling.

We’re very pleased to introduce our brand new packaging, as you can see below, it’s quite swanky. With more information included on the box, which is also more robust than previous iterations, it’s just another one of many improvements we’re constantly making to WiFi Plug.

To celebrate launching our new packaging, we are giving away one WiFi Plug completely FREE! All you have to do is review us with Trust Pilot good or bad to be in with a chance of winning!  We will randomly select 2 winners at the end of this month.

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Enjoy!

Simon was eagerly awaiting his WiFi Plug, and much to his delight, it arrived the very next day.

Despite his fears about setting the device up, it was surprisingly easy. He had the plug up and running within a couple of minutes.

Now, he just thought he would try it out, he plugged in a lamp and started turning it on and off. It was simple, instantaneous and Simon was chuffed. Rather than trying out another device, he thought he would mess with his wife.

Later on, at night, Simon started to flick the lamp in their living room on and off every few minutes. He had hid the WiFi Plug under the sofa and his wife was bemused.

Simon, on the other hand, was rather amused. He had finally found a use for technology!

Now, as Simon’s mind ran amok with potential uses for his new toy, he decided to order another three. He was chuffed to find there was a deal on, 3 for £99! It just kept getting better and better for Simon.

He thought he might actually find some practical uses too…

Thanks to all our lovely customers who have pointed out their timers are not working. It turns out they are working but the server appears to be out of sync by approx 138 seconds (or 2m 38s) Our engineer is scheduling the fix for Sunday 02:00 (we know the majority of you aren’t playing on your app at that time). So for the meantime either plan your timers a few minutes ahead, or note that they will not turn on for 2m and 38s

Thanks for being ACE!

Simon, a 39-year-old technophobe, doesn’t much like technology, he doesn’t have an iPad, hates his iPhone and struggles with the vagaries of his mysterious Sky box.

But, Simon was reading all about home automation and the rise of the smart home, and was intrigued.

Naturally, Simon googled ‘home automation’ and started doing a bit of research. It was all a bit scary for him, until he found something he liked.

A device which would allow you to turn on and off any appliance from anywhere in the world, right from your phone. Simon had no idea how this worked, but was interested nonetheless.

He didn’t like the technical jargon being used to describe the product but found the company’s website much more straightforward, Simon likes things to be straightforward.

Simon reckoned he could find a use for this product, he thought it would be great to turn his lights on and off when he was out of the house.

Simon decided to take the plunge, he ordered a WiFi Plug, just to see what it was like.

To be continued…

It’s that time again, that time – every couple of years – when you despair over the scant remains of yet another calamitous England ‘effort’ in a major tournament.

It was so bad this time we didn’t even get to experience the false hope and dread of going to penalties. Of course, there is still hope, we’re not out yet (we will be, make no mistake).

Over the last few weeks, whilst England have been disappointing football fans, we’ve been satisfying customers with our 3 WiFi Plugs for £99 offer. They’ve been positively flying, unlike England, so we’re going to extend the offer until Woy’s Boys are definitively on the plane home.

You never know, Italy might do us a couple of favours, we might thrash Costa Rica and we might go on to gloriously win the whole thing, inciting an unprecedented wave of national euphoria. But in all seriousness, you probably only have until Tuesday.

We hope you enjoy, not the football, the offer!

Apple have announced that they are launching a new framework for communicating with and controlling connected devices in a user’s home. Apps can enable users to discover devices in their home and configure them, or you can create actions to control those devices. Users can group actions together and trigger them using Siri.

The software will work with apps (such as ours!) which are designed to provide home automation services.

The new software will be launched with iOS8 and should be another interesting tool that developers can use to integrate with WiFi Plug.

We are excited about how we can dovetail our product with this new software!