by Eoin Gleeson | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog
The machine itself doesn’t look very impressive. In fact, it looks more like a home experiment…something you might use to distil your own gin or vodka. There are a few working parts: some glass bottles…some chemicals…a few sequencing devices. In total it cost...
by Michael Orme | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog
Robert Dill-Bundi was a great Swiss cycling champion. In Moscow, in 1980 he won the gold medal for the 4000m individual pursuit chasing his nearest rival down and finishing six seconds clear as he rushed across the line. When he won he stepped off the bike kneeled and...
by Michael Orme | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog
Remember the dial-up internet and the finger tapping timpani it yielded? Well, maybe a new era of the ‘world wide wait’ looms. Global internet traffic is growing by at least 25% a year — far outstripping the current growth in bandwidth with mobile traffic growing at...
by Michael Orme | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog
An experiment. Hold out your right arm and then slowly flex your wrist. Which comes first – the thought to flex your wrist, or the action itself? In the 1980s, an experiment by the neurologist Benjamin Libet raised some disturbing questions about the extent to which...
by Michael Orme | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Those who want to strictly regulate Facebook or indeed Google or Amazon are baying at the moon. Take the example of Facebook. Yesterday we had the spectacle of Zuckerberg donning sackcloth and ashes before Congress. But this Facebook scandal will be a nine day...
by Michael Orme | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog
In 1986, Toshiba manufactured the first laptop computer in a bid to satisfy Japanese consumers’ needs for space and convenience. It was largely the work of an engineer, Tetsuya Mizoguchi, working on his own steam at the company’s Ome factory, 25 miles outside Tokyo....
