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James Bond gadgets: a technological quantum leap

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 5 November, 2008 to the design and art subset

Pay attention 007, here's a selection of 15 of the coolest Bond gadgets. There is a definite bond between secret agents and gadgets. From the Geiger counter in Dr No, James Bond has been bedecked with hardware that has ranged from the plausible to the fantastical. The current Bond (Daniel Craig, starring in The Quantum of Solace) is a relative technophobe, which is a pity because the Bond devices ... Read full entry

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New, not better, technologies are the ties that bind

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 to the comment subset

If us Ice Age Homo sapiens use the same spears and clubs (iSpear and iClub?), then together we can send those Neanderthals the way of the dinosaur. "For early Homo sapiens colonising Ice Age Europe, a new shared and flashy-looking technology might serve as one form of social glue by which larger social networks were bonded," said Metin Eren, an experimental archaeologist from the University of Exeter in England. ... Read full entry

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Top 10 Gadgets of 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 January, 2008 to the technology subset

Top 10 Gadgets of 2007. You'll never guess what number one was. The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It's got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. It's an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontally - they reorient themselves ... Read full entry

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