Remote working: This portable chair might be useful in your home office
Whether you're starting to go out more but don't want to sit on a bench or want to change up your work-from-home environment, the Sitpack might help.
Latest from Mary Branscombe
Fire, Ice and Physics, book review: The facts behind the fantasy
Putting the science into science fiction and fantasy gets you an interesting, if somewhat worthy, book that leaves you with as many questions as answers.
Slug slime to hexagonal frying pans: How design inspiration can come from unexpected places
You don't need an iconic design guru like Jony Ive to come up with all the design ideas, but you do need to be prepared to take a new look at things and make the most of the materials available.
Cooking for Geeks (2nd Edition), book review: A tasty second helping
Get your teeth into this geeky approach to food, which covers novelties like nitrogen ice cream as well as the scientific principles behind great cooking.
Good Math, book review: Challenging concepts, well explained
More accessible than Hofstadter or Martin Gardner's classic mathematical columns, Good Math is a fun, if demanding, introduction to the strange, fascinating fundamental concepts of mathematics that underpin programming.
Pressed for Time, book review: Don't blame the technology
According to Judy Wajcman, we're pressed for time not because of technology but because of our priorities, and the policies and principles we choose. If we want to, we can take more control.
London: The Information Capital, book review: Data visualisation done right
This gorgeous atlas of a modern city does what most infographics only aspire to: it takes a vast amount of information and makes it clear and understandable.
The Rise of the Humans, book review: Don't sleepwalk into the future
Is there a simple answer to the future of technology and the world of work? Probably not, but this thought-provoking book might help you relax and stop worrying about it so much.
Code Halos, book review: The theory and practice of business success in the internet age
Even if you don't agree with its ambitious theory about what makes businesses successful in the internet age, this book is full of interesting insights and useful advice.
The Unleashed Scandal, book review: Documenting the new face of public life
Does technology make public embarrassment and disgrace worse, or does it just spread the humiliation around more evenly? This book documents dozens of scandals, small and large, to ask whether we're losing control of lives that are increasingly lived in public.