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15 December 2009
Demolishing the old office - the video
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A few days ago I promised you a video clip of the demolition. Here it is. This clip shows the hydraulic crushing jaws at work on a steel rei...
09 December 2009
Linked Data - queryable, extensive, public data
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Tim Berners-Lee has done it again. This time it's not about hyperlinked text but about queryable data . In many ways this can be seen ...
28 November 2009
Awesome video, great music, astonishing machine
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Here's a fine video beautifully put together with excellent music and sound effects. Mike Interbartalo edited imagery of the Space Shutt...
22 November 2009
The coming of the electric car
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I didn't know that Shai Agassi had spoken at TED until I read about it today on the Tiny Car| Smart Car News Blog . Shai's company...
17 October 2009
Testing Google Wave
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I had an invitation from Google to join their Wave preview, and very nice it is too. I invited the limited number of friends I'm allowe...
05 October 2009
Electric car - Better Place video
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The company that just might get electric vehicles on the road in a major way, ' Better Place ', has released a video showing the sys...
30 August 2009
The electric car - but better?
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Shai Agassi through his company, Better Place , has developed a system for building and operating electric vehicles - and it might just work...
15 June 2009
A free vote?
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Here are the crowds in Tehran , protesting about the election results. This picture was posted on Twitter just a few minutes ago. Read the ...
13 May 2009
The Internet Protocol
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Did you know that your connection to the internet is dying on its feet? Honestly, it really is! And the consequences are simply horrendous. ...
28 April 2009
Wolfram Alpha
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Wolfram Alpha is about to hit the streets (or at any rate, a computer screen near you). Created by Stephen Wolfram and his company, Wolfram ...
06 January 2009
Helping the helpless
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Imagine this - you are a tailor in a village in rural Ghana, you have little income, just enough to scrape a living. As you reach the ripe o...
17 December 2008
The Antikythera Mechanism
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The heavily corroded remains of an intricate and strange looking mechanism were found in 1901 in a Mediterranean shipwreck. Sixty years late...
08 December 2008
Science? Technology?
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Hang on, there's something unusual here. There's a shiny stone in the ashes. He picked it up and blew off the dust, it seemed unusua...
28 November 2008
Look, no connection!
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You are in a remote African village, in the middle of Antarctica, on a small Scottish island miles from the nearest town. You have no mains ...
16 November 2008
Fomalhaut b
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What, you may ask, is ' Fomalhaut b '? If you are interested in astronomy you will already know. Fomalhaut b is a planet circling on...
13 October 2008
After the financial crisis
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Maybe, just maybe, it's time to pick ourselves up and get to work. The banking system has been dealt a heavy blow and will never be the...
29 September 2008
Up, up and away!
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Yesterday was a very special day. Elon Musk's company, SPACEX, launched a small rocket and carried a dummy payload into Earth orbit. So...
19 July 2008
Astronomy
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Previous | Part 3 of a series | Next Why am I interested in astronomy ? I think it's because I'm fascinated by the vastness of the...
07 July 2008
Improving car efficiency
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This is an idea I had recently for improving the efficiency of internal combustion engined vehicles. 'Green' is becoming the watchw...
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30 June 2008
Robotic snake in the water
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A robotic snake ? Oh yes, and it's a pretty clever design too. Each segment has it's own built-in logic, the segments communicate an...
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