When there's a wedding coming up and the bride-to-be says she would like something, it's only fair that everything is done for her wishes to come true. And if those wishes are for pink pom-poms, well, who am I to shy away from such a task! I remember pom-poms being made when I was a very young child, and know that cardboard circles and lots of wrapping of wool was involved. I wasn't sure if my memory from 35 years ago was accurate, so I checked with Google, and, sure enough, that's still the preferred way of doing things. I couldn't help but notice it looks very slow, tricky, inefficient and inconsistent. There had to be a better way! One of the Google results, however, was for a Pom Pom Tree. The approach was different, but this still looked awkward, and not really set up for mass production. So I went to Nottingham Hackspace to make thing better.
Back in September last year, I was fortunate enough to go to a very unique art exhibition in East London where prosthetic limbs are the canvas. Spare Parts was organised by Priscilla Sutton and timed to coincide with the Paralympics, which was being held just around the corner. Whilst I went with the intention of just looking at these weird and wonderful pieces, I found myself going back the following day and buying one of the exhibits. (This will be featured in a future post). My leg-based art piece was collected after the exhibition, and to my delight and surprise, it came with a free gift of one of the legs that had been used to advertise the exhibition! You've heard of "how to get ahead in advertising", well, I now know "how to get aleg in advertising! The question now was what to do with it. I wanted to make something of it. Something interesting and respectful. Something useful. I didn't, however, want to do any irreparable damage damage, and I certainly didn't want to chuck it in the back of a cupboard and forget about it.
I got my Google Nexus 4 phone just over 3 weeks ago, and I love it. It is, without doubt, the best mobile I've ever owned, and I've had some really good phones before! If you want to read about how good it is, then just about every review out there will rave about it. What I want to do here, however, is tell the other side of the story and tell you about everything that's wrong with it.
I have seen the future of computers. Yes, really I have. What would you say if I said the future would be something about the size of a pad of paper. Which runs off of 4 AA batteries, giving it about 20 hours of use or 100 days of standby. Storage is solid state with no delicate moving parts, and can be expanded with plug in modules. Software and files can be stored on these modules or bought with pre-installed on. Built in apps include word processor, spreadsheet, database, diary, communications manager, alarm clock etc. Full size tactile physical QWERTY keyboard.
