Technology Links

Computers and Gadgets

• New Atlas - Flying cars and latest gadget news
• Lilliputing - Portable computing news
• GSMArena - The best smartphone reviews - even allow smart searches for 3.5mm headphone jack phones
• Notebook Check - Notebook and phone reviews
• Toms Hardware - Testing of computer components
• The Register - A British slant and better for mobile phones and mainframe gossip
• Next Platform - Big server chip news explaining CPUs. ARM vs x86
• Drone News - Drone DJ news about flying AI computers
• Slashdot - Geeky news and reader comments
• Phoronix - Latest chip news and solar powered computers
• Raspberry Pi - Educational cheap and mighty but tiny computer with amazing graphics
• Gizchina - Gadget news direct from China
• Android Police - Phone news
• Phone Arena - Phone news
• Mac Rumours - Rumours about everything going on at the secret Apple headquarters
• Engadget - New computers and gadgets -turn off Javascript first
• Switch Chargers - Guide to PowerBank power banks and USB chargers

General Science and Technology Journalism

• Wikipedia - Broken ossified establishment encyclopedia which stifles change and debate - particularly around SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Variolation, Medicines and refuses to allow a web page on the Colman Brothers Band!
• TED Talks - Intelligent life-changing stuff.
• MIT Technology Review - Deeper, less flashy technology stories
• Zero Hedge - Financial news and often extreme right-wing, Russophile nonsense but fast for technology stories (-turn off JavaScript first before visiting).
• Richard Dawkins - The author of The Selfish Gene and the God Delusion is unusually rational and logical.
• Guardian Newspaper - Open access - good for environment stories
• New Scientist - Light reading for scientists
• The Economist.com - Much journalism in Britain can be terrible but this is better an also slightly forward looking.
• Wired - Technology news and the finest male adventure stories. For example Chuck Fipke and diamonds and salvaging wrecks.
• Darwin and the sexes - Economist pokes its brains into understanding human behaviour - especially the naughty stuff

Aerospace links

• NASA and ESA - The boys with the most toys
• Space Tech news from SpaceDaily
• Electra STOL - Small fast STOL hybrid electric aeroplane
• Regent Flying Boats - Viceroy electric seaplane free from airport hassles
• Joby Aviation - Small fast VTOL electric aeroplane
• 1Comet electric glider - Lightweight glider self-launches with a built-in nose propellor
• Antares - Beautiful high performance glider that self-launches using an electric motor. Air Energy AE-1 - cheaper alternative
• Pipistrel - a 2-seat electric glider and a short take-off plane
• AS 34 Me - a beautiful simple electric launch glider.
• Experimental Aircraft - organisation for wacky aeroplanes.
• Electric aircraft - View from 2018.
• Siemens electric glider tow - Maybe the tow plane could be a drone and the glider an airliner
• AeroVironment Quantix - Electric aviation helping agriculture
• Electric Paramotor - Lighter than a petrol version, but not cheap
• Homebuilt Sonde - Balloon launched aerosonde with homebuilt guidance etc.
• Aeriane - Makers of the SwiftLite - possibly the best hang glider.
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Wikipedia page with links to open source flying robots
• Look up at the spys - Space Station 450 Km above Britain
• Renewable Energy - My page with a cheap wind turbine design.
• Green Transport - more general green transport links

Radio and Junk

• British Radio/TV - reception advice, also from BBC
• Linux and Digital TV - general introduction and links
• UNIX and other OS - Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Mate, Solaris, Knoppix, Microsoft Windows documentation and personal experiences. Java applets were the best way to run remote code locally on your computer but security problems and Microsoft killed them off as the risk/reward ratio became too high.
• All my photography software
• UNIX OSes and Software