Archive for the 'Household' Category

Rise up and make TV! Public Access Internet Channel

We’ve had the revolution of the Facebook masses getting Rage Against The Machine to number one instead of the latest corporate produced (s)hit from Simon Cowell. So how about the same for tv. Now we don’t have a tv chart that we can influence so directly as we do with music, more’s the pity. But [...]

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Smarter Washing Machines to Tell You When You’ve Left Stuff In Your Pockets

This is a half formed thought so far but I’m banging it up here anyway. Can we make washing machines that detect if there’s something in your pockets? All clothes come down to a few basic materials, so if you could eliminate those materials anything else left must be a foreign body that perhaps shouldn’t [...]

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Compact Living

After moving flat time and time again one thing is true of all rented accommodation it seems. There is very little storage. I appreciate space is at a premium these days but some places I’ve lived have been pretty ridiculous. One thing that you’ll need in most flat is a mop and bucket, and one [...]

Friday, January 22nd, 2010