Cosmonauts at the Science Museum
This week a new exhibition about the Soviet space program opened at the Science Museum. Offering a different perspective of the well worn space race. Like most modern museum exhibitions,…
Multiscreen Apollo Lunar Landings
Amazing video of all the Apollo Lunar landings played simultaneously on one screen.
Feedly ‘app’ on OSX
I’m a heavy consumer of RSS feeds. I still find them the best way to organise and consume news. Twitter’s great for many things. But I find I miss too…
Kickstarter – March: This Stool Rocks
For March, I’ve funded ‘This Stool Rocks‘. I think in a decade’s time, it may be possible to buy many of the simple plastic products we use now, (products without…
Crowd funding
At University I studied Industrial Design. I loved developing solutions to physical problems. In our final year, we all had to develop a big final year project. Unlike many Industrial…
Beautiful planet
For the last two months I’ve been staring each day at beautiful pictures of our planet. They are published to Twitter from the International Space Station. Current ISS commander Chris…
Death or rebirth of the high street?
Jessops, the UK national camera chain closed it’s doors for the final time on Friday night. It’s a sad passing. 1500 people had a job at the beginning of the…
Neil Armstrong
Most of us fail to make any indelible mark on history. A small selection become a footnote in a history book. A very very small number become a historical nexus,…
Privacy in the modern connected world?
For the last few week signs have been appearing all round campus that include a ‘no photography’ symbol. In the modern connected world, with the ability to instantly grab and…