I wanted a clock for my office, and couldn't decide what I wanted, so I opted to make a slightly unusual one with a Raspberry Pi and an e-ink screen.

It sometimes feels like plain old reality is getting a bit passé, with a myriad of new technologies promising to open up new worlds of possibilities, but what does it all mean and how does it all work here in the real world?

There has been a lot of chatter about how voice interfaces like Amazon Alexa or Google Home are going to “kill brands".

Hi, my name is Andy and I am a technologist. I’ve been monkeying about on the web since the mid 90s in one form or another, and I seem to have somehow turned some initial tinkering with very early HTML [^1] whilst avoiding my University coursework into a subsequent career in the London digital industry.

There's an awful lot of buzz at the moment about chatbots, conversational interfaces, and digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa - it seems like there is a steady march of AI into our lives, but is that a good thing?

For marketers and advertisers it may appear to be he beginnings of a brave new world of opportunities to deliver messages to consumers in new and "innovative" ways, but that is a fundamentally naive approach.

In the rush to be part of this brave new world it is this very simple question that is overlooked - "what is the value exchange"?

It seems like everyone is talking about AI at the moment, from your humble correspondent to Barack Obama

It’s been a few days since the Brexit vote dropped a metric (damn you, EU bureaucrats, with your pesky decimal systems) shit-ton of depression and uncertainty on the UK, European, and global economies, and after a few more pressing matters were attended to I have now had time to think about it in a bit more detail.

On 23 June 2015 I took part in my second Pecha Kucha session, talking about one of my hobbies — liqueur making.

Despite the fanfare and prolific advance sales of the Apple Watch when it was launched, many technology commentators are struggling with an existential issue: what is it?

Apple is no stranger to breaking new ground or creating wildly successful product categories in areas where big names had hitherto either failed or experienced marginal success, but there appear to be some fundamental questions about what kind of device the Apple Watch is.

On 24 March 2015 I took part in my first ever Pecha Kucha session, discussing the topic of calm technology.