Blog posts about: gadgets

(This post is part of a series – the first being ‘My Gadgets‘) Edit: and now part of the My All Time Top Ten series 1. Volkswagen Golf CL (Mk 1) 1985 – 89 Classic 1400cc blue go kart! Boy the fun I had in this car!. Don’t tell my mum (RIP) but this was [...]

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I do want one, and I am in the target market, but as a colleague of mine pointed out, it’s not actually a Mac, it’s still the iPhone OS, so it retains the control Apple want. In fact if I think about it too hard I don’t want one. That succinct marketing message stating that [...]

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Here is the most down to earth, everyday, useful application of Augmented Reality (AR) I have seen to date. It’s not a quatum leap to see any type of instruction manual or DIY book using this kind of system. Yes right now the cost of the technology is prohibitive, but the usefulness outweighs the complexity [...]

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Tilt shift is an amazing post production technique applied generally to long term, fixed camera video, that makes the whole scene look like a model, or miniature world. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: “Tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt forselective focus, [...]

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OK so I’m selling it short by the title of this post as this is a truly amazing advance in technology. Honda have developed a ‘Segway‘ like device that you jump up onto a sit on like a unicycle. It has an omni-directional wheel and automatically keeps you upright thanks to internal gyroscopes. CNET suggest [...]

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No time to write but check out these piccies of the latest screen reader technology! From “Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press”

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Checked out this leaked news about a new touch screen Apple laptop tablette, and the picture below is just awesome. It may convert me back! The details are as follows: Taiwan-based company Wintek has received the contract to supply touchscreen panels for Apple products, though it’s not sure what the final application will be. At [...]

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So where did the infatuation with technology begin for me? Well some of you may know that I am the son of the science fiction author Brian Aldiss. As one does I often ponder what the impact of my fathers thinking has been on my existence. I don’t believe that I have inherited hi amazing [...]

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