Tag: Technology
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How to make me feel very old
Kids React To Things seems designed to make me feel very old. Here they react to Walkmans, but also a previous one was the Rotary/Dial Telephone. After watching the Walkman video I’m like COME ON – they don’t know what headphones are? They don’t have iPods or headphones for their phones? Hmm. That technology hasn’t…
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Sight
A creepy dystopian look at our future by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. Might seem far-fetched but with the likes of Google Glass in our near future, and the even more bizarre Mechanical Turk ‘wingmen’ it’s closer than you think, and hell of a lot more spookier than the frankly cutesy Bluetooth headsets of RTD…
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Happy Birthday To Me, Happy Birthday To Me
I forgot, Radio Clash Podcast – the first mashup podcast and I think the oldest UK podcast still running, or at least the oldest continous UK music podcast anyhoos (?) turned 8 last week – the first one was on 29th November 2004. I feel old. The blog came a few months later, Jan or…
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Some Technology I Used to Know…
Actually that’s true, well sort of (I was old-skool Amiga, I had a 500) but Adrian of Bootie posting this over at Facebook and I found it odd hypnotic. And is it bad I much prefer the sound of a Scanjet over Gotye’s voice? Srsly, his voice is like nails over a Gabriel-shaped blackboard, whereas…
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Privacy invasion
We seem to be getting used to privacy invasion and sharing information online, apps etc (even people stupidly posting their credit/debit cards online – FAIL) but I was astounded when I asked why my new Samsung Galaxy S3, top of the range cannot work properly with my Mac. You plug it in and it sees…
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Toys of Mass Destruction
Well not saying the Robokopter is a toy, but the very similar yet cheaper AR.Drone is…I wonder how long it’ll be before drones are used in news gathering and riot situations? I guess Mr Robokopter didn’t want his Canon camera trashed, but with cheaper cameras and broadcast/security situations I’m sure it’ll be soon. Helicopters are…