I was born in Devizes in the 1970's and I grew up in a little village a few miles from the outskirts of the town before moving to Swindon as I approached my teenage years.
My interest in computers started at a fairly early age (about 8 years old if my memory serves me well) where I tought myself to code simple (and some not so simple) programmes and games on the 8bit Atari 800XL. This interest in coding was reignited as I started to take an interest in the internet in the mid 1990's. Read On..
Parts of my work mean I get involved in lighting, a subject that certainly from a techinical point I have a strong interest in.
I've tried and tested a lot of LED GU10 (and GU5.3) spot light bulbs over the past few years and quite frankly most were rubbish and didn't even reach half of the quoted performance levels. Some quoted specs were somewhat over ambitious and some were..Read On..
The Plumen 001 light bulb, created by design brand Hulger and designed by Samuel Wilkinson, has been awarded the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London..Read On..
For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However, recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light, they suck dark. Thus they now call these bulbs dark suckers. The dark sucker theory..Read On..