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#6: 8-Bitty Hello dear reader. For those new to this column, the Titular Idiot is me, and the Adventures are whatever I’ve been up to this week. This week’s been an unusually bitty one, so the column is too I’m afraid. But hopefully it won’t be dreadful. Let’s see… First up, a shameless plug, as one of the things I’ve been preparing for this week is the next live performance of mine and “Fleshy Tech God” Rob Sedgebeer’s live videogaming/comedy...

Ever wondered how close a group of people can get to an actual public circle-jerk without getting their actual penises out (and I do mean penises)? Well then look no further than a videogames convention! So, as someone who has been to many of these, it’s important to teach the next generation how to navigate these highlights of the gaming calendar. Day 1. The exhibition won’t technically start for a couple days but now that none of the publishers give...

By Collette Johnson, Medical Business Development Manager, Plextek Consulting According to Deloitte, the global mobile health (mHealth) market should hit $26 billion by 2017, whilst the medical wearable device market is expected to be worth $5.8 billion globally by 2019. Encouraging progress in sensor-enabled patient monitoring, diagnosis and treatment, which is only set to continue evolving over the next 10 years, is helping to fuel this massive market growth. These latest medtech innovations are shaping our future and will change...

By Dr Peter Chadha, CEO of DrPete Technology Experts If cinema has taught us anything, it’s that we should never trust robots. Whether they are rising up to protect us from ourselves or coming back through time to deploy cheesy catchphrases, mixing robots and humans never ends well. Although these fears are yet to come to pass, there is also a warning of a different threat from robotics, more specifically, software robotics… Robotics has now extended from the physical, into the digital...

By Faye Loader, Head of  Business Development at The Brewery London – the financial, digital and property capital of the world – is fast becoming known as THE global technology capital. Along with its financial prowess, the technology sector has fast become the beating heart of London, bringing in more financial investment during this year’s Q1 – more than in any previous quarter. To coincide with ‘London Technology Week’, last week, analysts at Oxford Economics issued a report strategy which found:...

#5 - What Am I Going On About?! As regular readers of this column will know, this week I’ve been all-consumed by E3 – the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Sadly for me, I’ve not been sent to Los Angeles, where all the action is. Instead, I’ve been in an incredibly well-heated TV studio in Shepherd’s Bush (read: “pit-stains”) where I’ve been anchoring the live coverage for video-gaming telly-box channel Ginx TV. On Monday, our show ran for 9 whole hours, thankfully...

By Steve Taggart If you are stuck for something to get dad for Father's Day and your old man fancies himself as a bit of a tech legend, then take a look at these cool gadgets. From all weather headphones to compact binoculars, there is sure to be a gift here to suit.     Bose Soundlink Colour Bluetooth Speaker priced £119.88 at QVC The first primitive loudspeakers were invented in the late 1800s. Now Bose has bought them bang up to...

By Tatiana Vorontsova, Group Account Director at data science consultancy Profusion There’s an idealised image of town life, perhaps 40 or 50 years ago, where high streets were full of independent shops, bread was delivered by a boy on a bike, everyone said hello to each other and you could leave your front door unlocked at night. In this Werther’s Original vision of Britain, the bank manager was a person of high esteem who knew every member of the community...

By Sonia Blizzard, MD of Beaming These days, putting your information online is something that appears to be an almost-daily occurrence. Credit card details, date of birth, mother’s maiden name – these are just a few things that we have all entered into a website at some point or another. But, where is this information going? Who can see it, and, are you sure you know exactly who has access to that information? As we go into an ever changing...