Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Best of What’s New 2003 review by US science magazine, Popular Science, has discovered a DNA mapping kit - for kids. Costing only $80, it enables children of ten and over to extract, view and map real DNA using the included centrifuge, magnetic mixer and electrophoresis chamber.
Next stage - mix your own pet.
[via BoingBoing]

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I was wowed when I first heard about the Orange SPV over a year ago and I got hold of the first one I could. After living with it for a short while, I wrote a brief-review of my experiences which ended getting picked up by slashdot. In the end I gave the SPV back, […]

Oh no, I saw that BMW are bringing out an X3. Now I’ve seen it, I guess it was pretty obvious. Create an expensive, aspirational (to some) model, then bring out the mass-market version.
The end result is our roads being even more clogged by idiots with an inferiority complex, driving aggressively, thinking that as […]

How cool is this? Mobile record decks called Handy trax by Vestax, with pitch control and everything. Just right for the summer.

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I dropped in to the Green Park Audi showroom on my way back from the Norman Foster’s talk at the Royal Academy. They had the new A8 on show and it was interesting to see how tech’d up it was, beginning at the car entry and starting it.
The key is an RF key, so when […]

As we know, mini remote control cars have been the unexpected success of the last eighteen months, so what better way to boost the slow sale of 3G handset - combine the two! NEC has launched a phone that can control two Konami mini racing cars.
Given that 3G phones have dropped to a quarter of […]

There’s a couple of wrist-mounted phones coming out from Samsung. They’re releasing the Wristomo i-mode in Japan next week and are planning to release another version, with a colour screen, in Europe before xmas this year.

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I heard the other week what 3G really stands for — Girls, Goals and Games. To clarify — it’s the type of content that teleco’s are hoping will be successful.

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I’m been looking for a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera for a while now. Mobile phone-mounted cameras always seem like a big compromise, which is natural as they’re designed to be as compact as possible to fit into pockets and therefore lens quality is compromised.
Never slow to innovate, Sony announced one in September last year and it’s […]

It’s strange that once you become aware of something new, you start seeing them everywhere. Further to my recent piece on PC’s in unusual housings. I’ve now found someone who has worked their PC into a toaster with the CD poping out of the bread slot, which they call The “ToAsTOr”.
It’s worth looking around […]