Buy a real robot, $1600
In a joint venture between Softconn, Alibaba and Foxconn, you will soon be able to buy a humanoid robot like Peppa, shown below,…
Afloat
Captured as dusk began to fall, I like the perspective of this image. Contrary to initial impressions, it wasn’t taken from a boat,…
Cloud storage for teams
As part of my move into a new team at work, I was tasked with looking at different cloud based storage solutions for groups.…
The future is bright
This was one of my more unusual shots, though I think by this point people had started to look out for my different…
New site – merging
WordPress is the #1 blogging platform in the world. Over the years, I have had a number of wordpress.com blogs, which are free,…
Are you compos mentis?
I started this post after spending a little time thinking about the title of this post, about what the words really mean. So….are…
The (Evolutionary) Great Leap Forward
Around 40,000 years ago something changed. Something fundamental, something that defined us as a species. We started to make tools, multi purpose stone…
Politics
As “leaders of the free world” it seems to me that most, if not all, politicians are full of crap and are, at…
Consciousness and unlearned knowledge
In this recent article in Scientific American, a theory is postulated that innate knowledge could be passed down in some way through the…
Mixed emotions
Worry. Perhaps fear that the worst news is yet to come. No one ever wants bad news. Sometimes though we steal ourselves for…
One in a million
Sometimes, the people who have passed, are the very people you could really do with talking to. My brother contracted lung cancer…
The wrong question
Reports of torture of terror suspects seems to be focusing on whether or not any useful information was gained. Would that justify it?…