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I stopped wearing a smartwatch to bed because it annoyed me. Not in a dramatic way. It was simply another screen on my wrist, glowing occasionally, bumping against the pillow and reminding me that even sleep had become something I was apparently supposed to optimise. A friend suggested a smart ring. My first reaction was…
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My old laptop once needed a new battery. The battery itself was not the problem. Finding out whether I could replace it without turning the laptop into an expensive puzzle was the problem. I watched repair videos, checked parts websites and discovered that one version of the model used different adhesive from another. Eventually the…
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I once searched for an old address online and found a people-search site listing places I had lived, possible relatives and an age range. Some details were wrong. Enough were right to make me uncomfortable. I had never created an account on the site. I had never uploaded a profile. Nobody had asked me to…
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A colleague once deleted a folder from his laptop and said, “It’s fine, everything is in the cloud.” It was. The cloud very efficiently deleted the folder from his other devices too. That day taught a lesson that technology companies do not always explain clearly enough: synchronisation and backup are different jobs. Cloud sync is…