Ten Quid PC

There is a Pc that costs about £10. The raspberry pi zero 2, it can run most versions of Linux but It usually boots a version of linux called Raspberry Pi OS. 

The whole computer, sound card graphics controller and ram are all together on a single circuit board the size of a credit card. 

A Secret Phone

If you see a BT  global billboard, there is  often a hidden phone on the side of the display that lets you make a free phone call. 

Many one then have a dial pad with a speaker and microphone and a button to speed dial emergency services. 

They also have usb charging  ports so you can charge up your phone. 

Grokipedia Upgrade

At the end of 2025, roughly at the end of November, Grokipedia was upgraded to version 0.2. It now listens to user input and decides if they it should upgrade the articles. It also produces a lot of its own images. Xai created Grokipedia to create a product that is non biased and focused on the truth. 

This is the website for Grokipedia : https://grokipedia.com/

The xAI machine that generated Grokipedia works around the clock researching thousands of books and published reports and various other trusted documents and even videos in search of a report that shows the truth. When it is satisfied it has found the truth, it generates articles for people to search and read. 

It will be interesting to see what they do next. 

Games Watches

A family of retro gaming watches is currently being released by www.myplaywatch.com/. They're the same company that made the Atari watch with mini paddle controllers that I mentioned in the previous post. 

They lack connectivity; no WiFi or Bluetooth but they do have fitness tracking and they tell the time and have a selection of themed clock dials. At the time of this post there were three watches being released. I particularly like the space invaders one and Tetris. 

It is nice to have old computer games in a watch. 

Build Virtual Circuits

Have you ever wondered if there is a website that lets you make your own circuits and virtually simulate a current flowing through them. There is one. 

https://www.withdiode.com/

On the site you get existing projects and you can modify them or you can make your own from scratch using a virtual breadboard and standard electronic parts. 

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Commander Keen game

When the Mario Brothers Game was released for the '80s Nintendo (NES),  it was thought the hardware on most PC home computers could never compete with the smooth side scrolling of the game system because the graphics processor was so advanced. 

However, The ID software team that later made Duke Nukem found a way around the hardware limitations. They used a technique called double buffering, they were aware that the VGA graphics controller keeps two copies of the screen so they programmed the game to draw the graphics changes of the hidden copy of the screen then switch the panes around when the rendering is complete at the end of each frame cycle. They also programmed the game to only render the parts of the screen that had changed, like a brick was that was half way off the screen. 

When commander keen was released, people were amazed that is was still smooth scrolling as well as the mario brothers despite running on much slower graphically challenged dos based PC computers. 

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Smart Phone Quirk

If you connect a blue tooth mouse to your android phone, a cursor will appear on the screen just like it would if it were a desk top computer. 

image generated by artificial intelligence (chat GPT)

The feature even works if you use a combo blue tooth keyboard and touchpad. Not to mention you can cast your screen to a Chromecast device. 

Instant Tuner

If you're worried your guitar strings are not playing the right note or your piano is off a bit, you don't need to buy a tuner, you can summon an instant tuner that doesn't need an app on your smart phone 

~ image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

All you need to do is go to Google and type 'tuner google' or click on this link... Google tuner. 

The tuner works with all sounds, you can even sing notes to see if your voice can reach the right notes.