The rumour mills are churning about the Apple iWatch. Pebble, Kickstarter's $10m runaway success, has finally started shipping. There's already a surprising amount of competitors trying to establish a niche, from MetaWatch to Martian to I'm Watch.

Sony have...

We know we get buried under email far more regularly than we get buried under snow, but only one of those occasions brings us a liberating opportunity.

We are naturally inquisitive, social creatures - and the Internet is a suite of tools that we've built to make us even more...

These are the years before we built the unobtrusive web.

I remember my first mobile phone. It had a stick-up aerial, a little LCD screen and big rubbery keys. I was in a pub with a friend of mine and my pocket started ringing. I pulled my phone out, and...

What a wonderful array of communication channels we have at our fingertips these days. So capable, so varied, and all so very instant. But why is it that the more we have, the less contented we feel?

In the 80s and 90s we called it information overload - for the...