If there is one consistent unit of measurement that has been applied as a benchmark to nearly every technical innovation that comes along it is this- the pocket. From pocket knives to pocket watches, pocket microscopes to pocket telescopes, pocket radios to pocket telephones, pocket automatons to pocket cameras, pocket televisions to pocket cassette players,...Read More

If you were able to escape the constant deluge of soul-destroying Covid stories the other day you may have been aware of Tesla’s ‘Battery Day’. It is an annual event for this controversial technology company who use it as an opportunity to hint at some of the more interesting technology they have in the pipeworks....Read More

(written for West Country Life Magazine) The years between the 1960s to late 1970s saw a revolution in computers, not just in their size and ability to conduct ever more complicated tasks, but in our whole perception of what a computer was really for. The noted technology commentator Howard Rheingold has called machines from this...Read More

(For West Country Life Nov 2020) Some items that you come across are things you know plenty about- so you buy them, sell them and think no more of them. Other items have a way of sending you down an unsuspecting rabbit hole of enjoyable research. It is of course rarely about the financial value...Read More