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 ›
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It’s not the object, it’s where it has been and who it was with
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 ›
Is a foldable iPad coming?
The talk surrounding a foldable iPhone has been running for some time now as the competition continues to try to make the idea into something vaguely useable in spite of the obvious constraints. Just like styluses on phones I continue… Read More ›
An hour with Apple’s support team
After an hour or more of scrolling and scrolling, it’s easy to believe that Apple’s devices really aren’t too good. Until you remember there are billions of them now out there, somewhere. Still, there’s something instructive in seeing how vast… Read More ›
The Vinegar Valentine
The Valentine’s Day love note from a secret admirer has an evil twin—the “vinegar valentine” from a hidden hater. When mass-produced valentines replaced handmade ones in the Victorian era, satirical valentines were as available as sentimental ones. Vinegar valentines, ancestors… Read More ›
Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time
But half a year later, Goldman looks oracular. Since last spring, the CDC has expanded its guidance to clarify that the coronavirus “spreads less commonly through contact with contaminated surfaces.” In the past month, the leading scientific journal Nature published… Read More ›
The unstoppable rise of Amazon
Today, Amazon is one of the most valuable public companies on the planet, with Mr Bezos vying with Tesla’s Elon Musk for the title as world’s richest man. What started as a small online book retailer has become a global… Read More ›
Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera
Photography as we know it has been around for about 150 years, though its origins can be traced to earlier civilizations. But it has never been so visceral, and so much a part of our daily lives, as it is… Read More ›
Do we expect too much from fitness products?
I was reading Shaun’s post about blood oxygenation in the Apple Watch and I was wondering if we simply expect too much? For example, I know that my Fitbit doesn’t count steps accurately – it works fine if I’m marching… Read More ›
The Mysteries Of Time
Physicists in the university’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have developed an atomic clock that takes advantage of the way atoms behave when they’ve been quantumly entangled. A typical atomic clock works by measuring the vibrations at the atomic level of… Read More ›