Month: October 2014

Autoblog recently published a report about car infotainment systems generally beginning to fail after a year. The issue is that most of these systems are bespoke, with bespoke connection to common handsets or data services. As those services change, the systems are generally difficult to update and often need to be taken back to the…

Around interesting energy consumption project… Watch this space in about a year!

While at the Amalia Hotel in Athens, Greece, I spotted this simple method of telling the staff you want your room cleaning. Now many hotels are employing smart digital technology to allow communication, but something about the simplicity of the controls struck me here. I can imagine my mum using this…

Our IT department uses Spyder calibration devices to ensure all of our screens are nice and accurate. The other day, while watching the process, I realised the software which comes with the device uses a visible template of where to put the device. This template is shown along with the first prompt to ‘Place your…