Technology PC users follow their nose TIRED of using a mouse to control your PC? Perhaps there is another option for when your arm starts to ache: your nose. A novel PC control system lets users nudge a cursor around the screen with gentle movements of their nose. Blinking the left or right eye twice takes the place of left or … 51¶¯Âþ
Humans Westminster diary IF A green revolution won't work, how can Africa solve its food crisis? This was the subtitle of an editorial in 51¶¯Âþ (3 July, p 3) . At a recent conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Hilary Benn, secretary of state for international development, agreed with Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations and a … Opinion
Technology Beyond the X prize THE sight of Burt Rutan folding his lanky, six foot four inch frame into his Mini Cooper reminded me of the old circus trick in which a dozen clowns pile out of a miniature car, one by one. "Great little thing," Rutan said admiringly as he revved it into life. "Bit tight on space, but … Features
Naturally patterned The Colours of Infinity by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Ian Stewart, Benoit Mandelbrot and others, Clear Books, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 1904555055 Reviewed by Kenneth Falconer FRACTALS are everywhere around us – in the shapes of clouds, mountains, trees and plants, on land, in the sea and in space, to say nothing of their occurrence throughout mathematics and science. … Books & Arts
Feedback FEEDBACK is hopefully not alone in having spent too much time at school becoming rather good at working out where soccer, rugby or other balls were heading, precisely in order to be somewhere where a high-velocity animal bladder covered in freezing mud was not. This seemed rational at the time and still does, but such … Regulars