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• Mail Rail

  By Shaun on July 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Before the Mail Rail, there was that popular Victorian device, a pneumatic tube. The London Pneumatic Dispatch Company opened a postal railway under Euston Station in 1863 that could carry 35 bags of mail one-third of a mile in a… Read More ›

• The $30,000 colouring book

  By Shaun on July 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The Bespoke Coloring Book is being hailed as the “world’s most luxurious coloring book” and has a price tag to match – $30,850 for 10 bespoke illustrations created by famed illustrator Ian Beck, based on your personal preferences… More at… Read More ›

• Pet Brothers From Other Mothers

  By Shaun on July 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  So sweet. The full collection is here.

• Wearables: only the strong will survive

  By Shaun on July 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “The wearables market has fallen short of expectations,” TomTom CEO Harold Goddijn admitted in an investors call this week. “Because of this and because we want to focus on Automotive, Licensing and Telematics businesses, we are reviewing strategic options for… Read More ›

• Dash-Dash It All

  By Shaun on July 27, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I spotted this which led me to this. Not only a discussion of what changes Apple might make, but also a discussion of where the various dash types are used and where they came from. And of course British and Canadian… Read More ›

• Elders React To Queen

  By Shaun on July 27, 2017 • ( 8 )

  The best band of all time? Yes, no need for the question mark.

• Rainbows go all the way around

  By Shaun on July 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  You learn something…

• The Singer Track1 Chronograph

  By Shaun on July 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The Track1 is the result of a three-way partnership between Singer founder Rob Dickinson, watch designer Marco Borraccino, and watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht. Dickinson and Borraccino met and eventually decided to make a watch together, and Wiederrect was then brought into… Read More ›

• Lenovo’s bendable tablet

  By Shaun on July 25, 2017 • ( 3 )

  The future?

• 1986 Google Pi Intercom

  By Shaun on July 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  This is a 1986 Radio Shack Intercom that I’ve converted into a Google Home style device using a Raspberry Pi and the Google AIY (Artificial Intelligence Yourself) kit that came free with the MagPi magazine (issue 57). It uses the… Read More ›

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