A colleague at work bought a new watch for £13. It is the one on the left in the above photo. The one on the right costs £2,780 and to anyone who does not like watches a purchase of the… Read More ›
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What Remains
Arequipa is bathed in sunlight. In front of a rust-red building, a poster shows a gold statuette adorned with red and yellow patterned textiles. A bright tuft of feather protrudes from his shiny head. “This is where we will see… Read More ›
What problems do foldable phones solve?
Historically, innovation has been about bringing something new to the mobile world. A new feature that solves a problem or which offers a use you would not have been able to experience before. This made things comparatively easy for manufacturers… Read More ›
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
The video depicts a man being murdered. Someone is stabbing him, dozens of times, while he screams and begs for his life. Chloe’s job is to tell the room whether this post should be removed. She knows that section 13… Read More ›
Only digital brings stress
The Apple Watch is gone and has been replaced with a mechanical that simply tells the time. Kindle books are gone and I read from these strange things made of paper. Task lists on my iPhone are gone and replaced… Read More ›
Behind the dial
While in these respects Tudor and Rolex movements diverge, both companies test their prototypes the same way. In a lab just a few metres from Tudor’s conceptors, designs are put through their paces using identical processes and equipment to the… Read More ›
When my son was 6 I used a Treo 650…
My son is 18 years old now and in 2006 we travelled to Orlando to take him to Disney for his 6th birthday. It feels like an age ago, but is in fact just 12 years. Think about 12 years… Read More ›
Apple’s strange guarantee for Steve’s replacement devices
A friend at work, Steve, is now on his third pair of Beats X headphones because the previous two started to lose audio quality. He called Apple support and was asked to take them to his nearest Apple store where… Read More ›
Music
In the beginning (well, my beginning anyway) there were LPs and my parents old 33s. Then cameth cassette tapes and behold the radiant wonder of the CD. Upon this time was a golden age of mixtapes, whereupon one might assemble… Read More ›
Impossible to function without the big five tech giants?
The technophobic tendency to attribute this failure to lack of moral fibre should be resisted. It’s not easy to cut yourself off from a system that links you to friends, family and employer, all of whom expect you to be… Read More ›
