The dirty business of waste packaging
We’ve all seen trees and barbed wire fences littered with snagged plastic bags, blocks of polystyrene and wax-coated drinks cartons loitering in rivers and the bottoms of hedge rows and road sides. So who’s to blame, businesses or we the consumer?
Smart goggles offer a “pre-vision” of the future
Our lives are filled with an immeasurable number of real and virtual objects of all kinds. Remembering everything we do is one thing, but everything we see? That depends on how you look at things…
Serious Science: is there alien life in the universe? Part 2
Is there alien life out there in the universe, or are we alone? That is perhaps the most profound question would can ask. After all, even lonely can be a shared experience…
Having faith in technology
My dad is something of a crypto-Luddite. He’ll happily use his mobile phone, yet deny, denounce and pour scorn and ridicule on anyone and anything else making those brave, tentative first steps out from the safe confines of a research laboratory and into reality. He lacks faith in technology — and he’s not alone, either…
Microsoft “Office Lite” to take on Google Docs? Part 2
Microsoft Office faces greater and more committed competition now than at almost any other time since its inception. Will we see Microsoft innovate or imitate their way to greater successes?

