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Technology keeps the ladies happy

Sex has always been a good driver of technological advancement such as the video camera and the new sex robots and appears to have been so for centuries.

However, I think this one takes the biscuit. A vibrator which is controlled by an iPad or iPhone. I wonder if it has passed Steve Jobs [...]

A sense of smell

Adding smells to computer games and movies has been discussed before and so far there didn’t really seem a good way of doing it.

So along come ScentScape. Like a printer is has 20 base smells in cartridges which it mixes and matches to make the smells that have been programmed.

I think [...]

Games with life

Scientists have created several games including PacMan where instead of computer generated characters microorganisms are used as the characters. I assume that consumption of the life forms must be the way the game is played although I wonder how they make the PacMen eat the others when the cherry is eaten. Also, how [...]

Health and Safety will end War

It seems that the next generation of weapons will not be allowed to hurt the bad guys. Unlike the Russians who have the right way to deal with pirates we have decided to go for the usual namby pamby solution of dealing with them in a non lethal way.

Meet BAESystems new weapon for [...]

Data charges and fair use

Data charges is one of the main areas where comms providers make their money. The data ranges from simple text in an SMS message to pictures on web pages. As with all thing each provider offers different packages to entice customers to them instead of a competitor. So instead of just charging by per [...]

Replicator v2

While not quite up to the standard of a Star Trek Replicator (by a long long way) we have now got a system that can form 3D parts from a PC at a reasonable price. Read about the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic here.

Now I’ve mentioned these systems before but then they were either custom built [...]

Could the demise of computers and notepads see the demise of MicroSoft?

The pace of technical innovation accelerates, as usual, and the devices of the future certainly look to be shrinking, again as usual. Here and here are the latest examples from established manufacturers for the tablet/pad market. IMO the way of the future.

Although servers are going the same way they tend to be [...]

Death and Taxes

Benjamin Franklin said that there are only two things certain in life. Death and taxes. I don’t believe that.

One thing that is often said and I believe is that ‘Everything that has a beginning has an end’ Taxes started, I believe, to fund the Napoleonic War. Theoretically once we are at a stage [...]

Evolution in action

What many do not realise is that evolution did not stop when the human species created our great society and started to control this planets resources and modify the direction of their own evolution.

Evolution continues, species die out and other species are born. The speed this happens is so slow that even a [...]

2011 is going to be interesting

With all the upset with the economy, the uselessness of our political masters and they way we are lied too I see more and more people becoming activists.

Now being an activist doesn’t mean that you are like the students going out and objecting because they have to pay for their services. It [...]