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  • NATO STRAP

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    Strap in black with turquoise stripe, made from recycled fishing nets, with brushed black ceramic buckle and fabric loop. OMEGA’s NATO-inspired straps have been influenced by some particularly robust and storied ancestors and can trace their earliest origins to the… Read More ›

  • Violet and Maggie, and Bailey

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    I love my 3 year old Cockapoo, Bailey, very much indeed. Having owned dogs before, for some reason Bailey is different to me and we have become best buddies. If I am having a bad day health-wise he is next… Read More ›

  • Ten days with the Amazfit Helio Strap

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    It’s been 10 days and I have hardly noticed the Helio. I made a bicep strap and there it has sat continually- I never notice it, I never feel it and the data continues to roll into the Zepp app… Read More ›

  • The SEA-GULL 1963 International Edition (in pictures)

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    I picked up this watch last week while it was on a very decent Prime sale and I have not been disappointed. It is a watch that I have looked at for some time and one with a lot of… Read More ›

  • The Swatch Museum

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    It’s free to the public, sharing the same building as Omega’s museum. Covering a broad range of models since the brand’s inception in 1983, the Swatch museum has so much to see that I went twice during my time in… Read More ›

  • A comic book just grounded planes…

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    It sounds like the plot of a comic itself. A manga artist has a dream, draws it, and decades later, the world responds not with admiration, but with cancelled holidays, empty flights, and spiralling tourism numbers. But that’s exactly what… Read More ›

  • Ignorance? Racism? Oldmanism?

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    Probably all three of the above. Check out the clip below- On a more positive note, but still related to Trump, this Canadian tourism advert does well to acknowledge that so many American’s are victims in this presidency and not… Read More ›

  • Siri still sucks…

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    Twice I tried to ask a simple and easily answered question. Come on Apple!

  • PLAUD

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    Powered by PLAUD Intelligence: Advanced AI transcription and summarization developed with GPT-4.1, o3-mini, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and more—featuring multiple professional templates for various use cases and support for 112 transcription languages… More here. I like the idea… Read More ›

  • War on the Walkman

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    Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan and Thatcher style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed the Walkman “a nonstop… masturbational fantasy” in his 1987 book ‘The Closing of the American Mind.’ Neo-Luddite John Zerzan… Read More ›