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Go Your Own Way: Commuting Alternatives & the Personal Transport Revolution

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According to Census 2016, nearly 2m people across the Republic commute into cities dotted along the coast of our little island on a daily basis, with the average journey taking 28.2 minutes. Those of us who commute to Dublin city centre may find this figure somewhat incredulous at times, with my own journey from the… [Read More]

Sparking Sustainability: The 88th Annual Geneva Motor Show

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The 88th Annual Geneva Motor Show traditionally heralds the beginning of the vehicle design showcasing season throughout European metropolises, travelling via London, Frankfurt en route to Paris in October. As such, auto manufacturers, depending on their market scope, will often use the premier event to herald the arrival of groundbreaking concept cars, revitalised design languages… [Read More]

We Are All Connected: IoT And The Rise Of The Smart Home

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The proliferation of smart home devices, spearheaded by products from heavy-hitters such as Amazon and Google and backed up by a number of quirky start-ups, is well and truly at the forefront of home-based technology as we kick off a new year. A world in which everything in our lives, from our phones, tablets and… [Read More]

Pixel Buds, Live Translation And The Babelfish

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"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that… [Read More]

FoundationDB: The Breakthrough Version

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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to turn the current boom in business data into a supernova explosion. According to IBM, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day! But what do we do with it? It's all going to have to be stored somewhere, be retrieved somehow and then mined for market information. Just… [Read More]

From 2014 To 2015: The Tech Year in Review

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For every story about a hubristic downfall there'll be one about a chastened comeback.  And this latter seems to be the narrative emerging with the Celtic Phoenix. That's the sobriquet given to an Irish economy that looked as if it was lifting off in 2014. Soberingly however, the latest results for GDP growth from the CSO… [Read More]

An Explanation of IFTTT and Our Top 10 IFTTT Recipes

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In just about any house this evening it’s a safe bet that the living room will be empty. Each inhabitant will be online in their own private space. This could be a study, a dedicated computer room or just their  bedroom but it will be filled with their own stuff and ordered according to their own preferences. The… [Read More]

The Internet of Things and Ireland’s Davra Networks

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The explosion of obesity in this century is testimony to the success in the last century of the automation of every day life. Technology stripped out the manual labour that was necessary at work and in the home. In 2014 we’re just left with the decisions about when to set a timer, throw a switch or… [Read More]