Before you start reading: This is a mammoth post, so stick the kettle on, make yourself a brew and get comfy! — Findapint.co.uk is a small side project I have been working on for the last few months based on the learnings I took away from the Prototyping in Code workshop I attended in the latter half of [...]

Having neglected the blog for several months now, I was long overdue a blog post, but thankfully I  finally have something worth blogging about. This time, the subject is prototyping, a topic which often leads to lively debates amongst those who design and build stuff for web/desktop/mobile. Before I delve in, a bit of background. My interest [...]

Here is the follow up to last year’s original Techno Time Machine Mix. Similarly to last year, this mix is a collection of tunes which have sat around on my PC for months on end, waiting to be mixed. Luckily, I managed to finally get a handle of Ableton Live (as I am regrettably , sans hardware) [...]

The video below shows a very interesting and seamless implementation of a ‘fling’ gesture (on a Pioneer WWS-DT101 Discussion Table), which allows a user to flick content to nearby devices (wall mounted TV in this case), regardless of their orientation. This is an important problem to solve, as a device marketed as a discussion table [...]

I had the chance to take a few pictures of Derwent Tower AKA ‘The Dunston Rocket’ in Gateshead during my Easter break last week. Despite it’s hard edges, gigantic flying buttresses and robust concrete frame, I have always been enthralled by the building. I can’t help but marvel at the optimism af the time when [...]

  It has been revealed that Apple iPhones secretly log the locations of devices on a system file which is held on the device and also synced across to the machine which holds it’s parent iTunes account. This file is very easily accessible and has raised some fears about privacy, and the motivations behind Apple’s [...]

Or more accurately, video. This timelapse by Terje Sorgjerd is nothing short of breathtaking. Perhaps i’ve been watching too much of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, but I always find seeing things like this utterly humbling. There’s nothing like a bit of perspective to remind you that some things are simply not worth worrying too much about. [...]

Not quite a personality as you or I know, but more like the perceived notion of what someone is like, except that this time, that someone is actually a machine. This video represents a wonderful insight into all the nuances that went into designing the public face of Watson, the IBM research machine which went [...]

A few images from the amazing Eden Project, taken last Autumn. Full set over at Flickr

An interesting TED talk about the emotional bonds humans form with technology.