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  • Daylight saving time and oppression

    President Woodrow Wilson formally introduced the United States to daylight saving time in 1918, justifying it as wartime thrift. Over the following century it was variously resisted, overturned, reintroduced and modified, reaching its current dimensions with the Energy Policy Act… Read More ›

  • Bullying Jr.

    Worth a watch.

  • What is Moore’s Law Anyway?

    Everyone knows Moore’s Law, right? Computers will double in performance every 2 years, or 18 months in some versions? And everyone claims it’s been remarkably consistent and some even claim that it’s Moore’s Law the causes computers to double in… Read More ›

  • Fossil Q Crewmaster review

    A hybrid watch on paper sounds like the perfect solution for those who prefer a traditional looking watch, but who also want notifications and fitness tracking as extras. For many men in particular a watch is the only jewellery they… Read More ›

  • Stepping away a little

    It’s likely that the content on Lost In Mobile will continue to dwindle over the next few weeks as I have more pressing issues to manage.  I’m not going to step away completely, but with work and freelance writing as… Read More ›

  • Mobile companies overcharging customers after contracts end

    Vodafone, EE and Three are continuing to charge customers for the mobile phones they buy as part of a contract, even after the cost of the handset has been paid off, research suggests. Citizens Advice found that customers who do… Read More ›

  • Selling Mattresses

    I couldn’t know it then, but the outcome of that battle would influence the purchase decisions of many thousands, if not millions, of people seeking a good night’s sleep. It would also reveal just how thoroughly the internet and the… Read More ›

  • Pholio

    Pholio is your personal photo and video archive. Once connected, it collects all of your digital photos and videos together – wherever they are saved – and automatically indexes them on the Pholio device. Pholio uses the latest visual recognition… Read More ›

  • 3D LED Lamps

    This is the R2-D2 edition of the Top Rated LEDMiracle 3D Illusion lamp. These lamps use energy efficient LED which don’t produce heat – so are completely safe around kids. They are a 2D perspex wireframe lamp that give the… Read More ›

  • Our culture is becoming always on

    On the subject of information overload– I suspect part of it is the immediacy of new information, whether that information is world events or text or email. And the need/desire to keep up means that there is less time for… Read More ›