Recent Posts - page 12

  • Ten days with the Amazfit Helio Strap

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    It’s been 10 days and I have hardly noticed the Helio. I made a bicep strap and there it has sat continually- I never notice it, I never feel it and the data continues to roll into the Zepp app… Read More ›

  • The SEA-GULL 1963 International Edition (in pictures)

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    I picked up this watch last week while it was on a very decent Prime sale and I have not been disappointed. It is a watch that I have looked at for some time and one with a lot of… Read More ›

  • The Swatch Museum

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    It’s free to the public, sharing the same building as Omega’s museum. Covering a broad range of models since the brand’s inception in 1983, the Swatch museum has so much to see that I went twice during my time in… Read More ›

  • A comic book just grounded planes…

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    It sounds like the plot of a comic itself. A manga artist has a dream, draws it, and decades later, the world responds not with admiration, but with cancelled holidays, empty flights, and spiralling tourism numbers. But that’s exactly what… Read More ›

  • Ignorance? Racism? Oldmanism?

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    Probably all three of the above. Check out the clip below- On a more positive note, but still related to Trump, this Canadian tourism advert does well to acknowledge that so many American’s are victims in this presidency and not… Read More ›

  • Siri still sucks…

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    Twice I tried to ask a simple and easily answered question. Come on Apple!

  • PLAUD

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    Powered by PLAUD Intelligence: Advanced AI transcription and summarization developed with GPT-4.1, o3-mini, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and more—featuring multiple professional templates for various use cases and support for 112 transcription languages… More here. I like the idea… Read More ›

  • War on the Walkman

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    Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan and Thatcher style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed the Walkman “a nonstop… masturbational fantasy” in his 1987 book ‘The Closing of the American Mind.’ Neo-Luddite John Zerzan… Read More ›

  • Printers. Oh Brother…

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    A security company has found eight security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of Brother printer models. The company has released firmware updates to handle seven of these vulnerabilities, but one security flaw cannot be patched. Brother has indicated that it’ll fix… Read More ›

  • An e-ink touchpad?

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    It’s not every day that the humble laptop touchpad gets a complete makeover, but E Ink has managed to do just that, and it’s making me rethink what’s possible with portable computers. Instead of tucking another display off to the… Read More ›