This is my first vlog rather than blog in an attempt to make this subject interesting. I will continue the saga next week!
Rogers 1st vlog from Roger Oxford on Vimeo.
Wireless charging of devices has been around for some time now. The technology makes plugs and adapters obsolete The only thing you need is a Qi charging station (transmitter) and a phone with wtreless charging capabilities (receiver). As soon as your battery runs out of power, you place the device on the station and your phone immediately starts charging.
The number of public Qi (pronounced Chi) charging stations currently totals just 5000 worldwide but just watch this space!! With the just launched iPhone 8 and iPhone X Apple have embraced this technology. Game changing' products don't come along all that often for our industry Looking back over the years we have seen many gadgets come and go and last for different time penods mouse mats. modem cables. memory sticks. digital photo frames. and more recently portable power banks and charging cables (see previous blog regarding quality issues). Apple's decision to enter the market elevates Qi very much to game changer status.
Research has shown that up to 76% of consumers are eagerly awaiting wireless charging. There are expected to be 300 million phones with this feature by the end of 2018 and 1 billion devices by the end of 2020 all because Apple has come on board. Wireless charging is becoming widely available and growing rapidly with major automotive brands (Kia. BMW. Ford) including it in their cars, coffee shops (Starbucks, Costa), fast food outlets (McDonald's) and even brands such as Ikea offering wireless charging.
All the above makes this an ideal premium gift for those really special customers at the festive season.
Good morning
I'm afraid that this blog is going to be very short andf hopefully sweet. I will be making my way back from a really enjoyable boys trip to Blaymont in France just north west of Toulouse. A fairly regular occurance that allows me to get away from artwork and accounts and be able to exercise my I.T. skills usually quite fully. Tood much food and wine is of course a given on these trips and ad added to that is watching a Grand Prix with similar minded individuals. To top it all below is a video of one of my favourite things in the whole wide world!
Log fire from Roger Oxford on Vimeo.
I've always been keen to celebrate Christmas by having extensive decorations both inside the house and outside. Unfortunately as I'm getting older the physical exertions of putting up lots of outdoor decorations is becoming harder and harder. Plus of course taking them all down again by twelfth night. Last year I thought I had solved this ever growing problem when I purchased an outdoor laser light. As I was hoping that this would allow me to leave the light up all year long and just attach it to a timer during the month of December I went to the trouble of mounting it onto a tree in front of my house. High enough up to be out of reach and wired permanently to the eaves of teh house and into the garage. Alas I had only bought a single colour laser light that provided a display that was dissapointing to say the least! Added to the poor display where I had mounted it onto the tree it only really shone on to one corner of the house.
This year I decided that the principle was still valid and I just needed to be a bit more careful about the light I bought this time. Fortunately a friend of mine had bought a 3 laser light and was delighted with the show it put on. I managed to acquire exactly the same type of light and when I tried it inside I was very much impressed. The other problem though was where to put it this time. I had chosen high up on a tree last year so that any delightful person or persons, maybe a bit too full of the Christmas spirit, would not be able to relieve me of it, at least very easily. The ideal position for the new light is on top of a stump that is fairly dead centre in the front garden. The trouble with this is that it will be very tempting for any persons as previously described. Having thought long and hard about this problem a quick trip to the garden centre provided the solution.
Maybe not a perfect answer but at least it will deter a casual attempt to purloin it. Once December is here I will take a little video of the fruits of my labours and let you see if you think it has all been worth it.
