How to get rid of receipts, without just binning them. Another piece from the BBC World Service.

Another BBC World Service recording. This one’s about getting connected in hotels.

A BBC World Service piece I did on the tenacity of a device that perhaps should have been binned long ago: the Communicator.

A BBC World Service piece I did on hand dryers.

A BBC piece I did on how to complain about service without looking like you’re out for a freebie.

Today’s podcast is given over to an interview with my old friend Jim, further identity concealed, as we catch him via Skype on mission in the southern Sudan and ask him, not about the tense political situation and his efforts to bolster democracy in that troubled country, but about how he packs his underpants. Anyone ... Read more

(This post is also available as an experimental Loose Wireless podcast ) Remember the Kryptonite Affair? It was back in September 2004 when a company that sold bicycle locks crashed into the power of forums and blogs and came away battered and bleeding when it failed to respond in Internet time to complaints that some ... Read more

For those of you who listen to podcast versions of my slot on the BBC World Service, this isn’t one. Apologies. What this is is what I hope will be the beginnings of more regular podcast fare known, tentatively, as Loose Wireless. To start off, it’s just me yakking away on subjects that interest me, ... Read more

Here’s a podcast I did for the BBC World Service on the Mitsubish Jet Towel, the only automatic hand dryer I’ve come across that actually dries your hands. Here it is.

Here’s another podcast, this time about how we aren’t quite as smart as our technology makes us think we are. Many thanks to the BBC World Service for letting me include this clip on the blog. Here it is.