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“Press button one”?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

No more “Press button one”?
By ERIC SHACKLE, in Sydney, Australia

Paul English must have felt he was a canary surrounded by hungry cats, or Daniel in the lion’s den, when he addressed 1000 representatives of the telephone and speech technology industry in New York last month.

Paul is the helpful computer genius who has […]

Would you like to have a twike?

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Would you like to have a twike?

We’ve never spotted a twike in Australia, but we stumbled across a reference to it on the internet. Intrigued by the name, we sought more details Could you eat it, or did it bite, we wondered.

We quickly discovered that a twike is an electric-powered twin bike, hand-assembled in Switzerland, […]