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Square Enigin Eyes

By Steve Hill

When I was a kid I was constantly told by my parents that I would get square eyes from watching too much television.

As a small child I took this warning seriously - realising that this warning from my caring parents was very serious as I tried to imagine what life would be like with cubes eyes instead of eyeballs. I would be painful if not impossible to turn you eyes, you would look very strange and if you ever needed glasses you would never be able to obtain square ones!

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Not all Gadgets change the World I

AT Enigin we deal with cutting edge technology, some of the things that pass through the Enigin offices are great pieces of technology and energy saving solutions - but some just do not “take off”.

We get excited by a new development or discovery via the development team and think of how it will help Enigin Distributors globally, but then a small hitch, or an unexpected change in maybe something else see the technology left on the sidelines.

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iPhone Falls 1000 Feet and Works!

At Enigin we you will see that most employees and directors use iPhones, and with Enigin Plc’s Eniscope App, many Enigin Distributors also are equipped with Apple’s technology.

All are worried about dropping the phone, fearing at least a cracked screen, and there are one or two, who use it with the broken screen or have had to dispose of their handset.

So the questions has been asked “Is the Apple iPhone 4 tough enough or will that pretty screen crack if you look at it too hard?”

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It’s Gadget Season

Being the Xmas holiday time we see all sorts of gadgets being promoted - raising the question as to what will be the favoured gadget for presents this year.

Here at Enigin we love our gadgets - well mainly the guys, you know how it is with boys and their toys. At Enigin wWe work in a fairly techie business so I guess it goes with the territory.

I see the blog Ken’s Tech Tips has what he reckons will be the hot sellers- he tops out with Amazon’s Kindle - interesting if this proves to be true, they have been advertising it heavily and with a reduced price I guess it has a chance, plus the addition of a 3G model will help.

Amazingly I think everyone would expect Apple’s iPad would be in there, it would certainly top the “most wanted” gift list, but I guess it is just to heavily priced for many people to buy it for someone else, a case of “I bought this for xyz, but I think I will keep it for myself.”

Here is his listing:

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Beatles Have Still Got It

By Steve Hill

My 16 year old son this week was horrified by Apples latest publicity campaign - he got the pre-event invitations, he waited in anticipation as the date for the launch of something exciting was about to be announced. He wondered what the new gadget the emperors of the “gadget” world about to pull out of the hat.

He was grossly disappointed when it was announced that the Beatles music was now on iTunes.

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“Beam Me Up Scotty”

By Steve Hill

My Daughter, Vicky, is in the final year of here university course, Digital Art and Technology, and as part of her dissertation on the “Wants and Needs of Mobile Phones” she is dealing with the history of mobile communication.

I was talking to her about this particular section and as we talked I mentioned how things had changed over a relatively few years and science fiction was now fact.

This conversation coincided with our viewing of the classic 80s movie Back To The Future - which ends up with Doc Brown returning from 2015 with a flying car and some sort of domestic nuclear power source on the back of his Delorean!

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I Am The Web Fox At Enigin

By Steve Hill

I always knew I was a bit of a fox and now it has been confirmed by the BBC!

What animal are you?

I am talking about web animals, based on your web behaviour - are you a Fox or a Hedgehog?

Although it is a bit of fun there is serious science behind the tests to see which animal you are.

Initially they thought of just Foxes and Hedgehogs but have not added more animal types that match your web behaviour.

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