VR platform incompatibility: what if it doesn’t matter?
You might want to check this article again once we have some solid facts about VR software sales. The more you read about the three soon to be released ‘high-end’…
Where journalist skills and innovation meet (and where they don’t)
It’s journalism, but not as we know it. To set the scene for this rather obscure deployment of the journalist’s skills, let’s just take a brief look at exactly where…
Uncanny valley in reverse?
Software will soon need to start trying to convince us that it’s more stupid than it is and that it knows less than it knows about us, just so that…
Think Kubrick was obsessed with detail? Games design is going much further than film
The social and cultural implications of bringing massively increased realism to upcoming video games design go way beyond anything to do with games. Few would dispute the claim that Stanley…
Overcoming Innovator’s Block
The one infallible trick (well, it works for me) you can use when you’re trying to come up with a new project idea but you’re getting nothing but a painful…
Makers: isn’t it time to embrace and extend?
Yes, 3D printing and the Internet Of things are ‘turning everyone on to the idea of making stuff themselves’, but what about working together with the ‘old-school’ DIY, craft and…
A truly social network where humans are (mostly) excluded
The truly driverless car is a distant prospect whose arrival will be preceded by cars driven not so much by their human drivers as by their need to learn what other cars know about the road ahead
Coping with startup founder setback blues
“Like being punched in the face repeatedly” is how Y Combinator’s Paul Graham characterises the devastating setbacks that founders have to be able to cope with. Here’s how you cope
Stand by: this is a platform alteration announcement
Due to an incident involving the wrong kind of interface design, all services by Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft will be subject to change without notice. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause