The disruptive DxO One
When photography started, it was a case of exposing plates to light in order to change them. Today, the principle still exists, except that…
When photography started, it was a case of exposing plates to light in order to change them. Today, the principle still exists, except that…
When Prometheus Design Worx announced their technical picnic blanket, I was somewhere between amazed, disgusted, and outraged, based on the following points: * technical: how is a picnic blanket technical? The language used to describe outdoor equipment is bad enough for the consumer (softshell or hardshell? Technical baselayer?), but when it’
sports-tech
On 2016–10–01, Oakley released the Radar Pace, for $449. Very little technical information was available pre-sale, and it was a delight to find it supports both Bluetooth and ANT+ sensors. A novel feature of it that was also undocumented is that the software (‘coach’) will calculate running power,
For a while, my preferred base/mid layer for anything cold (running, snow shoeing, cycling: sweaty pastimes) has been the Arc’teryx Konseal. Its lightweight thin fleece fits closely to my body, and the ‘scuba’ hood with integrated face warmer/jaw component of a balaclava keeps my head warm and
suunto
Continued from here. A while back, Suunto announced a new iteration of their GPS/GLONASS line, called the Vertical. Like a good technologist, I pre-ordered, and embraced its smaller feature set (compared with the Peak) with delight. I endured Suunto’s decision that people who ‘chase the Vertical’ don’t
A while ago, I knew a guy in a place. This guy, we’ll call him Carter (and the place Milk Bar) made great coffee and knew other people who make great coffee. Finding out I was from Oxford, he pointed me in the direction of another guy, and another
I’ve been known to by bags, normally something around the size of a day pack (20–25L), but every so often I need something bigger. This is one of those times, and with an imminent move to San Francisco, I knew I’d need something large and strong. Having
When I started working in IT, life was simple: everything was on servers in a server room or a data center, and everything on those servers needed to be backed up. Data replication had yet to really take off, internet connections were slow, and clouds were only just starting to
As someone who is most content when everything is quantified, I was immediately made unhappy last June, when I upgraded my long-standing original Suunto Ambit to an Ambit3 Peak. It had a new feature my completist nature had to check: a running performance graph, or, as I saw it, unquantified
Experiments with meal-replacement powders from a person who enjoys food and cooking Two of my hobbies are reading cookbooks, normally in an armchair in the kitchen while something else cooks, and cooking. With that in mind, I took the probably improbable decision to try one of the many meal replacement
wearables
Update: this is continued here. Last Wednesday, I received my Suunto Ambit3 Vertical. Having a new hardware design — a recycled Traverse — it presents itself more as an Ambit 3.5 than one of the existing range. Initial Observations The first, most apparent difference is the removal of the GPS antenna
I backed a Kickstarter project, Solar Paper, by Yolk, which provided me with four very thin solar panels that magnetise together. Each panel is rated at 2.5W/5V, and up to six can be chained together. Living in the UK, a dark and gloomy place, one does not naturally
wearables
Recently, I compared the output of two optical heart rate monitors: the Mio Link, and the Jabra Pulse, finding that they are comparable in their accuracy. Since then, I’ve moved on from an interest in direct heart rate (beats per minute), and developed an interest in heart rate variability
Recently, TAD released an update to their EDC pack (the larger of their two rucksacks). It took its ques from the Litespeed update in the form of straps and internal attachment points for the Control Panel, and added an innovative, separate roll-top compartment (think an integral dry bag), as a
Few things define a person more than his choice of notebook. Moleskine, Field Notes, Leuchtterm, Nock: each choices broadcasts something different. For several years I have been a proud user of Field Notes. I enjoyed their size and durability (most notably their ability to stand dunking in rivers, even in
I’ve had my LS since 2015–05–16, and have flown with it, hiked in the Alps with it, and commuted by (pedal) bike with it. Stuffed into overhead storage bins, being rained on, sat on, packed with a silly — silly — amount of weight, it’s been through it.