I am not all that easily pleased when it comes to Virtual Reality headsets. As someone with multiple sclerosis, I have problems with my vision in general and find that such headsets usually give me a headache. When I used the Meta Quest 3 demo device in a shop a few months ago, I had
For many people, the thought of a drone will bring about ideas of young people getting a small flying device for Christmas, using it to film their house from above or to fly around the living room terrorising grandma. Those that have watched recent films from the likes of Michael Bay will soon have realised
In the film The Terminator, a cybernetic assassin, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is sent back from 2029 to 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor because her as yet unborn son will save humanity from an extinction brought about by an Artificial Intelligence called Skynet. When people discuss AI in the modern world, it is
When conversations about Artificial Intelligence come up, it doesn’t take long before someone starts to talk about Terminator and the rise of Skynet. Whilst that is obviously a gross exaggeration of the position that we find ourselves in, it is a slight insight into how many people feel about the technology. The problems that we’re
If you have pretty much anything wrong with you whatsoever, one of the first questions that a medical expert will ask you is whether or not you’re a smoker. When you find out that smoking can do incredible amounts of harm to the human body, you will soon ask yourself how on earth it was
Is Elon Musk the world’s stupidest billionaire? There is certainly an argument to make on that front, with the Tesla owner having taken over one of the most recognisable brands in the world only to remove from it the things that made it so recognisable. What he chose to do to Twitter is akin to
For some generations, the presence of a landline phone in their home was entirely normal. Those that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s or earlier will have been used to the phone ringing all around the house as someone called in order to speak to one of the inhabitants of the home. Since the
The invention of the smartphone was one of the biggest technological advancements of all time. There is some debate over which was the first smartphone to hit the market, but there is little question that the arrival of the iPhone in 2007 changed everything. From that moment on, everyone would have access to their emails,
The words ‘self-eating’ might well sound like something from a horror movie, but the truth is that it might well be more suited to sci-fi films in the future. Scientists have developed what is being labelled as ‘self-digesting plastic’, with the idea being that it will help to reduce pollution in the long-term. This, of