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• I miss seeing random strangers do random things

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  As lockdown continues and we all get more and more solitary and down about the situation I have continued to try to pin point what exactly are the things I miss the most, and then something came to me that… Read More ›

• Bugs in M1 Macs

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The new M1 chip is certainly one of the most exciting things to happen in the consumer electronics space in a long time. Though it’s tempting to let our fanfare get the better of us, the M1 does have its… Read More ›

• Omega in the 1970’s

  By Shaun on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As a fan of watch design, I have developed a healthy obsession with the first generation Omega Constellation Manhattan. The Constellation Manhattan is Omega’s biggest icon introduced in the 1980s. But it’s also one of the few introduced in the… Read More ›

• It’s not the object, it’s where it has been and who it was with

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A friend of mine, Russ, recently inherited his Dad’s Tudor watch. It is a 1958 Tudor Oyster Prince 7909, the ‘Prince’ word denotes that it is self-winding. This is of course a fairly common occurrence, but it highlights just what… Read More ›

• The Mars Rover has less computing power than the original Apple Watch

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed successfully on Mars Thursday, is powered by an old chipset that gives it about the same processing power as an iMac from 1998, according to PCMag‘s breakdown. More specifically, it’s packing 256MB of RAM and… Read More ›

• Xiaomi has fingers in hundreds of pies

  By Shaun on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Xiaomi has fingers in hundreds of pies. During the November 2020 Cyber Weekend, roughly 10 per cent of search results for ‘fitness tracker’ in the UK were Xiaomi-related. Xiaomi also accounted for 22 per cent of the wearables market in… Read More ›

• Is Rolex a symbol of everything that is wrong with 2021?

  By Shaun on February 20, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Rolex is a brand that the vast majority of people know and one that many aspire to own. It didn’t used to be this way and there was a long period when Rolex watches were viewed as ‘old men and… Read More ›

• ‘No jab, no job’ policies may be legal

  By Shaun on February 20, 2021 • ( 17 )

  

  It may be legal for companies to insist on new staff being vaccinated as a condition of their employment, the justice secretary has said. However, Robert Buckland said it was unlikely bosses could make existing workers have vaccines under their… Read More ›

• Bruce Blackburn dies

  By Shaun on February 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos became ingrained in the nation’s consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA known as the “worm” and the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial star, died on Feb. 1 in… Read More ›

• My Other Car is a Beatle

  By Shaun on February 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanks to Kirk who recommended the above mashup following my post yesterday. Well worth a listen.