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• Gentler Streak: lose the Apple Watch rings!

  By Shaun on February 18, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Gentler Streak is a personal fitness habit tracker offering a fresh, more compassionate approach. Making rest days part of a streak challenges the unrealistic mainstream mindset of always pushing harder — and it changes streaks as we know them… More… Read More ›

• Never Listen To The Critics

  By Shaun on February 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There must be thousands of clips like this that are discoverable. This one is one of the more embarrassing I have seen to date.

• This was the ‘Car Of The Future’ 74 years ago

  By Shaun on February 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The Davis Divian is one of many highly-unusual cars to appears in the years shortly after WWII. The war had been a time of rapid innovation led by countless thousands of engineers – many of whom found themselves back working… Read More ›

• We live on the small white dot to the left of centre

  By Shaun on February 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Maximise the photo, take your time and you will eventually find the ‘massive’ planet that we live on. Nice to understand our minimal importance in the grand scheme of things on occasion.

• Glass for iPad

  By Shaun on February 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Glass has come to the iPad! Nothing feels quite like it — it’s so easy to get lost in your feed or a Category. Total immersion in the photography. iPad has immediately become our favorite way to experience Glass. We… Read More ›

• They know Brexit is unravelling

  By Shaun on February 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  But a great deal hangs on this. If the prime minister is found to have lied to parliament and to the people, what defence is there to the allegation that the Brexit cause – mired in similar controversy over lies… Read More ›

• Make Your Own Pocket Computer

  By Shaun on February 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Penkēsu (Japanese: ペンケース) is a retro-style handheld device powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, a 7.9 inch widescreen display (400 x 1280 resolution), and a 48-keys ortholinear mechanical keyboard… More here. If you want to build your own,… Read More ›

• Smartwatch health tracking will be more important than fitness

  By Shaun on February 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  According to Mark Gurman’s “Power On” newsletter, the Apple Watch Series 8 is unlikely to have a body temperature sensor, as a report earlier this month stated. As per the Australian nursing student, the Apple Watch’s heart rate notifications can… Read More ›

• At-home COVID testing must be better than lateral flows

  By Shaun on February 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  These tests are generally more sensitive than rapid antigen tests, and they’re less likely to return a false negative result. But as any molecular biologist can tell you, they require more focus and concentration to conduct. You also need some… Read More ›

• The iPhone killed chewing gum, and so much more…

  By Shaun on February 16, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  I guess we don’t think of modern phones minimising interest in abstract products. The list of obvious products they have replaced is immense already; sat navs, cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, diaries, alarm clocks, calculators, radios, PCs(?), notebooks, watches, portable games… Read More ›