A selection of features and articles I’ve written, though often the headlines were by other people (please tell Twitter that).

 

 

• The great ad-space race: the history of space advertising
  People have been trying to put logos on the moon for a long time.
• Why don’t E-FITs look like actual people?
  As if crime’s not scary enough.
• Forgotten genius: the man who made a working VR machine in 1957
  Wind, scent, vibration – Morton Heilig’s Sensorama had everything but success.
• Why we might miss out if tech moved any faster
  Some ideas just don’t need improving on.
• 7 ‘big things’ in smartphones that never lived up to the hype
  People don’t want transparent phones after all.
• They were supposed to be the future – so why haven’t modular phones taken off?
  A little bit of Moto in my life, a little bit of LG by my side…
• iNspired: the origin stories of some of our favourite gadgets
  Did you know the Wii once had a touchscreen?
• The connected kitchen is a half-baked pie
  “Your oven subscription has expired. Pay $49.99 to continue cooking”

For more, see my Techradar author page.

 

 

• Portable projectors and virtual assistants: six of the best gadgets to help you connect with loved ones this Christmas
• Electronic Rubik’s Cubes and smart photo frames: 12 great tech gifts for Christmas
• What I’m learning from being trapped in quarantine with my ex-fiance
• Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you
• Your online identity is precious. Here’s how to protect it
• Being a mother is irrelevant to a woman’s ability to do the (top) job

For more, see my Guardian author page.

• Why Samsung’s folding smartphone might prove more than just a fad
  With the Galaxy Fold, Samsung has become the first major manufacturer to launch a phone with a folding screen – it might just be useful enough to tempt consumers

• Opinion: “Sexist advertising for the Escobar phone is everything tech wishes it could still get away with”
• Opinion: “Shocking that high-profile tech organisations are still making gendered blunders”
• Opinion: “Energizer’s remarkable folding phone has flown almost entirely under the radar”

If you’d like to see examples of a specific genre, drop me a line and I’ll send some.