technology Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/technology/ Mechanically-minded travel Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:04:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Some New Year Predictions https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/some-new-year-predictions/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/some-new-year-predictions/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:27:58 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12566 Happy New Year everyone! What does the New Year hold for us, in the Mechtraveller worlds of engineering and technology? Well, off the top of my head, there are a few anticipated/scheduled events and a couple of predictions… Autonomous cars in London – We know Waymo has been human-driving their cars in recent months, gathering […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/some-new-year-predictions/feed/ 0 Auto-Identifying Spotter Scope for Wildlife Enthusiasts https://mechtraveller.com/2020/02/auto-identifying-spotter-scope-for-wildlife-enthusiasts/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/02/auto-identifying-spotter-scope-for-wildlife-enthusiasts/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:04:53 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5912 SWAROVSKI OPTIK are today launching a revolutionary optical device that pairs with a phone app to identify and catalogue wildlife. Swarovski is well known around the world as a costume jewelry manufacturer, but they also put their glass grinding skills to other uses and the Optik division, which is based in the Austrian Tyrol, specialises […]

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