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Ever since I bought my first PDA (a Palm III) back in the late 90s, I've used the kind of touchscreen which needs you to give it a slight press, typically with stylus but a finger will work just fine too. Apparently these are resistive touchscreens and work by having two thin transparent parallel sheets which are brought together by the
This might've been overlooked during the Christmas / CES / Google v. China period but China launched the world's fastest passenger train, the Harmony Express, at the end of December. The trains go 1069 km (664 miles) from Guangzhou to Wuhan in around three hours with a top speed of 394 km/h (that's 245 mph). For the purposes of comparison,
The 33rd America's Cup yacht race gets under way in a week's time from Valencia in Spain, pitting two of the most hi-tech yachts against in each other in a series of races. The defender is Switzerland's Alinghi catamaran and the challenger is the US's BMW Oracle Racing, a stunning trimaran with the world's largest single wing at over 68m
In GNC #539, Todd related the problems that brick'n'mortar stores were having competing against the online retailers and I agree entirely with Todd's sentiments. While I'm happy to use Amazon et al for specialised purchases or gifts to faraway relatives, I now regularly buy from local stores to try and keep them in business. And do you know what? Although
Regrettably, I don't get to see my folks as much as I'd like....there's 500-odd miles and a sea between us, so it was a rare pleasure for my parents to visit me over Christmas for a few days. After a day or so, my dad says to me, "Could you have a look at my laptop? Every now and then
In his pre-Budget report, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has confirmed that there will be a 6 GBP tax on all households with fixed-line phones in order to setup a fund that will be used to ensure that even the uneconomical parts of the UK will get fast fibre connections. Note for readers - the incumbent UK Government is Labour,
Time and time again I'm totally amazed at how much personal information people will hand-out to complete and utter strangers. A study by Sophos showed that on Facebook around 45% of people will accept invites from totally unknown people with rubber ducks as their profile pictures. And what stuns me is that a whopping 89% of twenty-somethings willingly handed over