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Category Archives: Hardware
Greatest Gadgets?
The other night I dipped in and out of a Channel 4 countdown of Stephen Fry’s top 100 Greatest Gadgets. An interesting postulation and countless people jumped on Twitter to claim that the Internet was the greatest ever gadget. The … Continue reading
Time keeps on slippin’
So sang the Steve Miller band back in the ’70s. Time marches on inexorably to the mathematically rhythm of the universe. The almost clockwork movement of the planets allows highly accurate predictions to be made about things like eclipses – … Continue reading
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It’s somehow already December. Traditionally, I like to do a little end of year review during the final month of the year. Unlike Popular Mechanics who – at the start of October – included the Techcrunch Crunchpad tablet computer in … Continue reading
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To buy, or not to buy, that is the question
Is it really though? Those of you who know me well enough would probably be expecting me to rush out and buy the iPhone 3G as soon as I set foot back on British soil. There’s no denying that I’m … Continue reading
Emergent development
When the University of California at Irvine built their campus, they just planted grass. Then they waited a year and paved over where people had made paths in the grass. I first heard this in an interview with Larry Wall … Continue reading
A little bit of history repeating
This year has already started to see the blurring of the edges between online Web 2.0 and traditional desktop applications. The traditional downside to this software as a service (SaaS) has been what to do when there is no connection … Continue reading
Losing is now a good thing?
Yesterday Toshiba all but threw in the towel on the ultimately redundant next generation movie format battle between their own HD-DVD offering and rival Blu-ray from Sony. Shares in Toshiba went up by five per cent after these rumours. Sony … Continue reading
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Convergence
I read about the secrets of a slim wallet on Lifehacker a while ago and realised that I could go a little further and stop carrying around several things when just one would suffice1. I’ll freely admit that the camera … Continue reading
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The highest form of flattery
“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso Imitation is rife. Apple may just have been inspired by Braun design from the ’60s and ’70s for the iPhone calculator, iPod and G5 tower. The Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Xerox … Continue reading
A nice start to the day!
Today’s (and probably the last of the year) Edinburgh Coffee Morning was the busiest it has been for a good while. The cryptic promise of some gifts that Ewan McIntosh left in a Facebook message last night turned out to … Continue reading
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