Energy-saving BrightCharger automatically gives phones just the right amount of power. I remember the question, in the distant technological past, in a Carphone Warehouse outlet on the Marylebone Road in London. I was picking up my first, clunky mobile phone. “And is it possible to overcharge the phone?” asked a customer alongside me. The assistant… Continue reading
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Could private cash boost new Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Line?
Delays in completing East-West Rail, linking Cambridge to Oxford, are holding up the development of a new British Silicon Valley, slowing the growth of research and development facilities in life sciences and artificial intelligence both in the two cities and the villages and towns between them. There its no direct rail link between the two places, and the road connection is diabolical. —– Most… Continue reading →
Nespresso’s Clooney coffee ads to boost South Sudan farmers
Coffee pods are one of the social and marketing phenomena of our times. The dominant brand Nespresso continues to commission the matinee, or should that be mid-morning?, idol George Clooney to promote its coffee to a prodigious band of consumers who cannot, incidentally, all be women. 10 years on, and owners of the brand Nestlé… Continue reading →
BA drops plan to power flights with municipal rubbish
Just three weeks after the world’s governments signed a deal to cut Co2 emissions to slow global warming, BA has announced that it has been forced to mothball a project to create 16m gallons of jet fuel from London’s rubbish every year. It cites a number of reasons, (speaking to the Guardian) including low crude oil prices,… Continue reading →
Pavegen’s footstep energy advance “faster than solar”
The advances made in the pioneering technology of footstep energy has been much more rapid than the progress in solar power when it was starting up, according to the CEO of Pavegen, a UK company at the leading edge of the (kinetic harvesting) business. (Another story by me on Pavegen – here.) Laurence Kemball-Cook,… Continue reading →
Motorola makes Moto G force in the smartphone market
I have a new camera / radio (though I mainly use BBC iPlayer, liberating me from the schedule) /tape recorder / personal communications centre / computer. Oh, and it’s a telephone too. It’s also a timepiece and very handy alarm clock. My day is punctuated by short-term alarms – a great motivator which I can recommend…. Continue reading →