Hand in Phone (Glove)

Hello, can you hear me? Hello! HELLO!

As you may be aware I review gadgets for a local magazine. Some of the stuff I get is pretty good, the Bluetooth speaker, or the headphones. Some of it is really interesting, the Lytro camera for instance. Some of it is just a bit silly like the usb cup warmer.

This time I was sent an ipad case with a built in keyboard and battery. This is quite good apart from the fact that it makes a svelte ipad into a something of a similar size to the ICL mainframe computers I used to run!

The other thing I got to review, and remember it is June, is a pair of gloves. Not any old gloves, these are Bluetooth gloves. With a speaker built into the thumb and microphone hidden somewhere in the back of the glove, or the front, or the finger (I did not find it). It allows the user to make calls of poor quality whilst looking like a right plonker. It was difficult to pair with my phone, the call quality is shocking and the glove is made of purest manmadeonium! I could not get the microphone to work properly and the speaker is dreadful. I don't intend to use it for long enough to run the battery down. Apart from that they are a nice shade of black ;)

An early start today as I had a networking breakfast at the old Airbase at Alconbury. It was a reasonable event (They had coffee and bacon sandwiches) The first speaker was a networking specialist, a good presentation, everything she said was common sense (it sometimes helps when someone reminds you of the bleeding obvious!)
The next speaker was utterly dreadful. Imagine the worst presentation you have attended.. Loads of wordy powerpoint slides, dull voice, back to the audience, reading from the slides (more or less word for word), overrunning by 10 minutes. Dull, dull, dull..

Then the final presentation. The topic...

How to give a good presentation (oh the irony).

The presenter was a former stand up comic and he was brilliant. It was possibly the best presentation I have ever sat through. Sadly for the previous chap all the things he said should never be done, had in fact just been done (excess powerpoint, back to the audience, overrunning) it could have been a tad uncomfortable but the presenter handled it well. I suspect he got at least one customer as a result ;)

I spoke to a few people and am going back for a tour of the old cold war facility at some point (that'll be a blip then).

Then back to the office, it seems I spent the rest of the day doing 'stuff' nothing marvellously exciting but reasonably productive. We have a sort of pitch in Wolverhampton tomorrow so another early start and I suppose I should probably read the notes!

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