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• Holding plank for a long time is pointless

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  According to Stuart McGill, emeritus professor of spine biometrics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fitness fanatics will see greater gains from doing shorter holds more frequently. He advises three bouts of 10 seconds as the ideal regime, and… Read More ›

• How the Brexit campaigns link up

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Tweeted by Carole Cadwalladr. I will take any excuse for a second referendum.

• The new Helvetica Smartwatch

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Eternally more interested in hyperbole and emotion than actual facts, Mondaine didn’t know by what margin, but the new watch is 40mm, compared to the 44mm of the original. In watches 4mm makes a huge difference, and this new model… Read More ›

• The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Starting around 2009, Wood and several others at Cambridge began trying to separate Hawking’s voice from the failing CallText hardware. The group would include Peter Benie, a computer guru at the university; Paweł Wozniak, a local engineering student; and Mark… Read More ›

• The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The latest creation from Kostas Metaxas is another daring piece of design. The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable is machined from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminum and titanium and features a lathe-turned aluminum platter base… More at uncrate. Sort of… Read More ›

• CDs and vinyl are beating digital downloads again

  By Shaun on March 24, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Streaming music is taking over the recording industry, and there’s no clearer sign of it than this: digital download sales have fallen so much in the past few years that they’re now smaller than sales of CDs, vinyl, and other… Read More ›

• The Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight

  By Shaun on March 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  On the wrist, the Black Bay Fifty-Eight is simply superior to most other sports watches within the Rolex family, save perhaps the Explorer I or the Daytona. It is svelte and subtle, and the proper design elements have been brought… Read More ›

• Our mission to buy a fake Rolex on Facebook

  By Shaun on March 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Facebook has a major problem with scammers and fake designer goods on its popular Marketplace platform, contributing to a global counterfeiting industry that is worth an estimated half a trillion dollars a year, or around £358 billion. Marketplace lets users… Read More ›

• If you are serious about fitness

  By Shaun on March 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As a follow up to my Apple Watch article yesterday, the stats below (which I receive from Fitbit each week) are quite powerful to me in their ability to display just what has been achieved in the previous 7 days…. Read More ›

• “I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product.”

  By Shaun on March 18, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  “I have yet to meet anyone who owns an Apple Watch who’s passionate about the product,” Zerella said, adding that Watch sales mainly piggybacked off iPhones sales. Ouch. Apple doesn’t spill the beans on sales figures of its smartwatch, but… Read More ›