With digital camera ownership having long since overtaken the procession of manual cameras, and with storage memory card costs at an all time low, it has never been easier to snap happily away at everything and anything as you go about your life knowing that you can always dispose of …

Anything that promotes and inspires children to take responsibility from an early age in a fun and accessible fashion has got to be good news for any parent and if, at the same time, your children can also help to vacuum the house whilst they are playing that has got …

Another ring on Thoughts from the Sidelines? One could be forgiven for thinking that I am suffering from somewhat of an obsession with hand jewellery. Be that as it may, it would appear that rings are very much the focus of designers at the moment and the Information Ring is …

Although we have featured a few mobile phones on Thoughts from the Sidelines which have boasted particularly stunning designs, this phone, which is presently only a concept, is a definite head-turner in its own right. And, personally, if this was available on the high street I would be certainly one …

With hard drives becoming ever quieter and less audibly intrusive it is becoming increasingly easy to forget just how feverishly the hard disk is working behind the scenes whilst you are browsing the contents of your folders, saving, copying and pasting, renaming and so on.
Thanks to a chap by the …

There are already a number of programmes that will bring a 3D element to the desktop of your computer but BumpTop 3D certainly looks the most promising and exciting of the newer concepts being currently developed.
As you can see from the video presentation after the jump, BumpTop 3D allows you …

How many megapixels does your digital camera have – 4, 6 perhaps even 10? In comparison with the Seitz 6×17 Panorama Camera’s 160MP device, frankly, your digital images are likely to pale into insignificance.
To put that into stark perspective, we are talking about a camera that can produce images with …

We have covered many concepts concerning personal modes of transport in Thoughts from the Sidelines, including a number of Personal Airborne Vehicles – in particular the battle to deliver the first mass produced flying car - but none has quite set my pulses racing like the CarterCopter (though admittedly the …