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Good Tech Needs Good Conditions to Work Properly I've been thinking about the Game Boy Advance lately. Bear with me. When Nintendo released it in 2001, it was genuinely impressive hardware. More power, better controls, a bigger screen. On paper, it had everything. In practice, though, there was one serious problem: you could barely see the screen unless you were standing directly under a light source. The hardware …
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Your Phone Is Your Smart Home Remote: Here's Why The latest batch of flagship smartphones are genuinely impressive. Better cameras, longer battery life, faster processors. But when I look at a phone like the OnePlus 15 or the iPhone 17 Pro Max, I'm not just thinking about the handset itself. I'm thinking about what it controls. For our clients across Cheshire, a smartphone is the most important piece of smart home …
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Good Tech Needs Good Lighting: A Smart Home Lesson I was reading about the Game Boy Advance the other day. Great bit of kit for its time. More power, better controls, a bigger screen. Nintendo ticked almost every box. Almost. The one thing they got badly wrong? Lighting. The screen was nearly impossible to see unless you were sitting directly under a lamp. People bought clip-on lights, modded their consoles, squinted …
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Why Your Smart Home Needs a Solid Network Foundation I've been reading about the new Asus Zenbook Duo lately. A laptop with two OLED screens, 15 hours of battery life, and integrated graphics powerful enough to run modern games at console quality. Impressive stuff. But here's what caught my attention. A machine that capable, with that many displays running simultaneously, needs serious infrastructure behind it to …
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What a 2001 handheld console taught me about home lighting I spent a lot of time squinting at a Game Boy Advance screen as a kid. If you owned one, you'll know exactly what I mean. In anything less than bright daylight, the screen was nearly impossible to read. You'd tilt it toward a lamp, angle it toward a window, or give up entirely and wait until morning. It was a brilliant bit of kit let down by one thing: you …
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Why Your Home Network Matters More Than Your Devices I've been reading about the new Asus Zenbook Duo. It's a dual-screen laptop with integrated graphics that can handle console-quality gaming, 15 hours of battery life, and a flexible form factor that adapts to however you want to work. Impressive stuff. But here's what caught my attention. A device that brilliant is only as good as the network it runs on at …
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