Neil Hopcroft

Dream machine “The general concept is you’d sit down with it for a few minutes before you go to bed,” said Peter Harwood, senior marketing manager with Takara USA. Once this is done, he added, you are ready to visit Venice in your dreams. A new dimension Once photographed and enrolled in the database, a […]

And some more questions from ladycat: 1. You have a single day to be unexpectedly back in England, what are you going to do with it? Go to BMovieClub – I’ve only been once but had such a good time and loads of people were there. I don’t know, really, I’d like to see lots […]

Some questions from sciamachy What’s the best thing about living in Japan? The girls here are cute. Not that I can really communicate with them very well. I’ve been learning lots about communicating with different people from all around the world. What do you think will be the Next Big Thing in computing? Theres got […]

Vice or Vertu? GSM handsets starting at 5k UKP, at least they’re not optimising BOM.

I take it everyone else is getting buried under emails from this latest virus too?

Things here have been busy busy busy….so half a big update, the rest when its written up…

Hi tech crime reduction “James, a former police officer, said the system enabled it to warn member stores of who to look out for before crooks strike. This information could be used to prevent well know offenders from entering stores. Stores are emailed daily reports in the form of encrypted Word documents. These ‘intelligence reports’ […]

To console myself for working late (again) today I bought myself some strawberry flavoured ‘Air in Chocolate’. Yum. Tomorrow, I aim to be out of the office by 9pm.

At last people are catching up with some of the possibilities of camera phones I posted this time last year…I’ll have to do some more brainstorming about what happens next…and patent it this time, not sure anyones managed to port GOCR onto EPOC yet, my port compiles but I couldn’t make the test code work. […]

At last most of the paranoia has gone, everything has settled into just normal chilli pain, I fear I’m going to have to be more selective about my diet over here. I don’t think eating a huge bowl of four cheese pasta and a pound of boiled beef helped much, and probably the two hours […]