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• Wacky Moments from Olympic Games Past

  By Shaun on August 11, 2021

  Subsequent marathons didn’t go off quite as smoothly. In the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, Cuban runner Félix Carvajal saved up enough money to travel to the Games. But on a layover in New Orleans, he gambled away… Read More ›

• Computing replaced everything

  By Shaun on August 10, 2021 • ( 1 )

  We used to write with pens that we had to fill up with ink and we then moved to ball point pens because they were much more convenient. And then came the typewriter which was followed by the computer keyboard,… Read More ›

• macOS Mammoth

  By Shaun on August 10, 2021

  With Mammoth, we’d like to see a dynamic flexible menu bar that can shrink and grow at will. It reserves more space for windows at the top of your display and hides a giant section of the menu bar that… Read More ›

• Apple only needs to improve one Apple Watch feature and in a big way

  By Shaun on August 10, 2021

  The above video highlights just how versatile and impressive the Apple Watch is, to the point that you could get away with not taking your iPhone with you. Only one area lets it down and it does let it down… Read More ›

• The Ancient Olympic Computer

  By Shaun on August 9, 2021

  Submitted as evidence: the enigmatic bronze device known as the Antikythera Mechanism. It doesn’t look like much – a few badly corroded lumps, nearly unrecognizable after two thousand years in Davy Jones’ locker. The mechanism was discovered by Greek sponge… Read More ›

• Overdesign

  By Shaun on August 9, 2021

  Everyone gets greedy from time to time, and that includes designers. When designers try to pack too many features into a product or push design principles too far, the product can end up being harder to use, more expensive, and… Read More ›

• The government’s climate spokesperson is holding on to her diesel car

  By Shaun on August 9, 2021

  Allegra Stratton told Times Radio that she doesn’t want an electric car just yet because she needs to drive to her children to their grandparents from time to time, “who are mostly 200, 250 miles away.” She said: “Right now,… Read More ›

• Turn an AAA battery into an AA battery instantly

  By Shaun on August 8, 2021

  Your wireless mouse has died and you’re on deadline. Or you kid’s toy stopped working and they’re not happy. If you’re out of AA batteries, did you know you can use a smaller AAA battery by folding up a small… Read More ›

• John Amaechi speaks

  By Shaun on August 8, 2021

  When John Amaechi OBE was a boy, his white grandfather would lean out of the car window to shout racist abuse at other drivers whilst he sat in the back. He went on to become the first British NBA star… Read More ›

• The Apple Watch is getting squarer

  By Shaun on August 8, 2021

  Some of the renders in the above video look scarily realistic. If this is the ‘shape’ of things to come for the Apple Watch I must admit that I am not keen. Apple would do better to make the watch… Read More ›

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