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The battle between the government and torrent sites is the ultimate example of the tortoise and the hare. Except it’s the tortoise which is arrogant and frequently stops for naps, doesn’t actually understand what a race is..
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Phones are quite effective in reducing crime, almost like pocket-sized Robocops, but the authorities don’t always have the best ideas for using these intuitive devices we all carry around with us...
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Clothes make the man and anyone saying different is trying to excuse their stained T-shirt. But now the mobile phone tells people even more. It’s how you interact with the entire world beyond visual range...
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There are a lot of reasons to call the emergency services, and almost all of them involve nouns like “FIRE!” or “BURGLARS!” and especially “BLOOD!”. No emergency call should be based on these reason though...
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Way back when, Nokia dominated a dumbphone world. But in 2012 it’s the time of the smartphone, and Samsung have finally wrestled the crown away from the Finnish giant...
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Humans can’t be trusted with each other at the best of times. Giving everyone access to everything is the conversational equivalent of the end of a Tarantino movie: a lot of very angry people and imminent pain...
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Google recently released a video of “Project Glass”, its concept of an augmented reality system, triggering a wave of posts asking “Wow, can they really do that?”...
