Author Archives
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The ONLY Clock
The material world becomes more complex on the inside and streamlined on the outside. Objects lose their massive material body and turn into contours, imaginatively reminiscent of their purpose. Modern technologies allow placing electronics inside the product housing in such… Read More ›
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steampunk plotclock
This guy is crazy, but you have to love the imagination and skill involved in this creation. There are more here.
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I’ve decided to reclaim my life
Of course it should have been obvious long ago, but on that revelatory night, I realised I had lost control. The reach for the phone had become involuntary. A bulbous chunk of my brain, sucked up by phonethink. Where’s the… Read More ›
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Smart watches, hybrids, vintage and modern watches
But what of Swatch? The company is a watch-making stalwart which capitalised on the quartz movement, and is working on its own smartwatch OS. Burheim is surprised the company hasn’t been more active in the smartwatch game already “It’s a… Read More ›
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Phubbing is the new snubbing
The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often … Sadly, the way we’re going, in another generation or two, online sharing will be the norm,… Read More ›
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Technology is nothing, it is just us
The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true… Read More ›
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Nice Things to Do For Your Wife
It sounds a bit cliché, but it’s the little things that make a marriage. Grand gestures have their time and place, sure, but it’s the small, sweet ones that mean the most: those just-because gestures that you do to show… Read More ›
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myfitnesspal breached
If you use the same password anywhere else, change it. And then make sure you don’t use the same password on more than one site.
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Sat nav rip off…
An investigation by Auto Express magazine found that the cost of updating the in-built sat nav system varies by hundreds of pounds, depending on the make, model and age of your car, even though most get the mapping software from… Read More ›
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Micro-Miniature Sculptures
Based in Ukraine, Sergey Teterin is an artist on a microscopic scale. Using a fine-tipped burin, he sculpts minuscule bits of solid gold into sculptures measuring a fraction of a millimetre in size. Requiring two to three weeks apiece to… Read More ›
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