Archive For The “Technology” Category
If Heineken made cordless phones, odds are they would look like this. A veritable Rolls Royce amongst telephones, this device addresses the single most irritating feature of the cordless phones I have owned to date. It is capable of copying directory information from the Outlook directory on the PC, and propagating it around multiple handsets. [...]
Early adopters of technology must sometimes feel like hamsters, interminably stuck in the exercise wheel. Yesterday evening, having nothing much better to do, I decided to upgrade my HTC Hero to a newer version of the Android OS, my transparently ridiculous excuse being that location awareness in Twitter posts is obviously something I can’t live [...]
This year has provided, as the chinese say, interesting times so far and it is with a sense of some relief that I turn my attention away from fulminating against the dumbing down of television, the sheer existential horror of living in a country governed by a thin lipped Etonian with a letterbox mouth and [...]
Internet myth or urban tragedy? When one of America’s most iconic cities is portrayed as a post apocalyptic dystopia, returning foot by foot to the prairies from whence it came, the temptation to mythologise is almost overpowering. Motor City, home of the automobile, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Kevin Sanderson and Tamla Motown as a metaphor [...]
Fabrica in Brighton is presenting 77 Million Paintings as part of Brighton Festival 2010. Brian Eno is this year’s Guest Artistic Director and this free exhibition is running until the end of May. The exhibition uses translucent and richly coloured abstract images, mainly hand drawn on 35mm slides, to form component elements that are almost [...]
So why didn’t I think of this! An idea so blindingly obvious that music lovers everywhere will be kicking themselves senseless. mflow takes the ‘follower’ paradigm from Twitter and applies it to music. The users get to publish a track, or an album, with a comment. Their followers can listen to the track and optionally [...]
The more I explore the subject of climate change, the more I notice two distinct (and dangerous) ways of perceiving it. On the one hand, there is the ‘end of the world is nigh’ position, which I am occasionally guilty of lapsing into. At the furthest extreme of this position lies a conviction that human [...]
