Safety is a good thing, but have we gone too far? One of the casualties of the modern obsession with safety is the chemistry kit, an educational toy that helped generations of children to discover the fun of chemistry.
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Ask any computer programmer from the UK over thirty where they got their first experience of computers, and I’ll bet…
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The philosopher Plato believed that all things have a perfect form, an abstract ideal that represents the essence of the thing in its purest form. Although the perfect form is unattainable in the physical world, the Palm V probably represents the closest that we have come to the perfect form of the stand-alone PDA.
Motorola’s first clamshell phone was the must-have gadget of the late 1990s