Skill Zone News issue 83
A survey this month revealed that making phone calls is now only the fifth commonest use of a smart phone. The average British user is using their handset phone for two hours a day but only twelve minutes of that is spent making calls. Mostly they are used for surfing the internet, checking social networking sites, playing games and listening to music.
26th November 2014
Amazon teams up with Post Office
If you order something via Amazon but don't want to stay at home waiting for the delivery, you can now have it delivered to a local Post Office where you collect it at a more suitable time.
No magic bullets
The USA has a problem with firearms, but any attempt to control the sale of guns runs into the obstacle of the right to bear arms enshrined in the 220 year old second amendment of the US Constitution. Rather than attempt to control gun sales, researchers at the University of Delaware are proposing using technology to make guns safer. Only in America?
Can I have your autograph?
It has long been a tradition that authors would autograph the front-piece of books and perhaps write a short message there when giving copies to their close friends. Signed originals of books by Dickens or Darwin are now priceless collectors items. I don't have any priceless books, but I do have some quite ordinary books and CDs given to me by proud authors and artists, signed by them, and they are things I would never part with.
The extensible self
How can a bedroom-bound quadriplegic in Manchester visit a museum in Melbourne and deliver a talk to the Wired 2014 conference? The answer lies with robots?