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Budget Buster: Taking a Razor to the cost of Shaving – What if a Simple Choice Saved you NZ$36,000 Over 50 Years and You Got a Better Shave? The business model behind the shaving industry […]

Why can't mobile phone LED flashlights be used to communicate in Morse code without the Internet in times of emergencies? It's an idea that been at the back of my mind a for a few […]

The Kindle Changed the Book Business. Can It Change Books? A very valid point! Kindles and eBook readers have been mimicking the existing paper book format. Yes, we can argue the pro's and con's of […]

This Is The World’s First Fully Solar Train – In Byron Bay Australia Custom curved solar panels on the roof of the train send power to a set of batteries that replace one diesel engine; […]

Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone To Physically Guard Your Laptop (or Anything Else The NSA whistleblower and a team of collaborators have been working on a new open source Android app called Haven that […]

Got a Sonoff Wifi Smart Switch to work with my Google Home The video below shows me using voice control through my Google Home to remotely switch an extension lead on and off, and to […]

Got two Sonoff WiFi Smart Switches today My project is to now wire these up and get them working this weekend via mobile app as well as with Google Home. One will be on an […]

The Verge’s Best Smartphone Camera Of 2017 – iPhone X vs. Pixel 2 XL vs. Note 8 vs. HTC U11 vs. LG V30 The camera on a smartphone is becoming a more and more important […]

Tesla's huge battery gives coal station emergency power 620 miles away – Grid Storage is not just for Renewable Energy The world's largest lithium ion battery, installed to alleviate South Australia's severe energy issues, was […]

Twitter adds more verification options for two-factor authentication like Google Authenticator Twitter today is beefing up perhaps its most important consumer-facing security measure, two-factor authentication (2FA), with an update to fully support third-party apps. Now, […]