Bizarre inventions

ROBOTAXIS ARE THE MOST THRILLING promise of our driverless future! Who wants to be driven home by a human who actually knows where they're going, when they could instead put their fate in a faceless a

1890 -CYCLING HOLIDAYS

On the morning of Sunday, 3 September 1916, farm bailiff Charles Lewis set out across the fields at Abbott’s Hall near the village of Horsley Cross, in rural Essex, to check on the wheat crop. He took

In 2025 a Mercedes-powered Formula 1 car rules the roost, and 70 years ago it was a similar story. Mercedes made its grand prix supremacy official when Juan Manuel Fangio secured the 1955 world title

So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

I’ve thought of an AI enhancement that Microsoft should roll out with indecent haste. It’s a derivation of the ignition interlocks that can be fitted to cars so the driver has to pass a breath test be