In my travels during the earlier part of 2015 I found myself in hotel rooms with inaccessible power plugs, a lack of USB charging ports, and desks with recessed power strips that didn’t take the power box for my laptop at all. It was all a bit frustrating […]
In my many trips to London over the years I have been searching for a hotel with a 25-metre indoor swimming pool. I haven’t found one yet (so any pointers gratefully received), but apparently there is one coming to a new apartment building in Battersea. The twist is […]
As a frequent traveller it is interesting to me to observe a new set of luggage being designed, funded, and brought to market. In today’s innovation, there’s a soon-to-be-released suitcase that features in-built stackable shelves, to give you a portable drawer unit: Designed as a checked baggage item […]
As an author of books and newsletters, I get blind to the errors in my writing. In recent years I have come to rely on someone else to double check what I have written before it gets published. Sure I read it over myself, but having worked with […]
One of the concepts for building collaborative capabilities into tools is to support the need for collaboration “in the flow” of what the user is doing, as opposed to taking them out to another or separate application. If collaborative activity is part of the work process, that activity […]
MIT and the city of Copenhagen partnered for the development of the Copenhagen Wheel. Say hello to the Copenhagen Wheel, a device that slips onto your existing bike wheel. It stores the energy that you already use, and saves it for when you need it most. Hills become […]
In light of the recent updates to Mac OS X, the iPhone, Apple Pages and Keynote, etc., Lawrence Lessig writes that it may be time to leave: “So this has been a week from Apple hell. Apple did a major upgrade of its suite of software — from […]
While I was in London last month I received an email offering me a review case for an iPad, from The Snugg. Having purchased a new iPad Mini a couple of months before, I was on the look out for new cases, and had noticed the flip over […]
As I sit alone in the Relatives Room outside the operating theatres at Christchurch Public Hospital, there is one constant sound and some periodic discordant ones. The constant sound is the ceiling fan, forcing a circulation of air in the room. The periodic discordant ones include doors banging […]
Apple’s latest new product fest is almost here, and there are a range of articles competing to best call the details based on rumour and hearsay in advance of the actual event. The world will know all of the details within 24 hours, so there is no point […]
Michael Sampson 
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