If a picture paints a thousand words, here’s another million! New Jetpack Moments 🚀 Lights, Camera, Traction 5 with @teslasuit @takeonGravity @FUTURACE2025 @Hyundai_UK @pathwayxrstudio + the magnificent @montymunford #design #IoT #Innovation #VR #AR #AI #mobility #cars #WWDC24

Yesterday was all about Guy Richie. OK, not everything – just driving Pierce Brosnan’s Urban Automotive Land Rover Defender from Richie’s @MobLand_PPlus series. More on that later this year… And in complete contrast, Corsa GSE: The EV pocket rocket from @vauxhall that offers a genuine hot hatch experience – performance, handling AND a seat that sits low enough to make you feel you’re driving a Lotus, rather than perching on top of a battery. This was all made possible thanks to @SMMT #DriveLive. Always a great chance to network with friends, clients and colleagues from automotive media and brand press teams, as well as finding new and entertaining environments to test and capture amazing new vehicles. #SMMT #SMMTDriveLive #cars #automotive #Mobility #Design #IoT #Innovation #EV #Mobland #Defender #Vauxhall @VauxhallPR @Defender

Dawn breaking over @SMMT #DriveLive

.@Rylan sat at home with the popcorn watching #Strictly Ep 1 (which is always a total waste of air time no matter who hosts). Pretty sure he should have been paired with EW.

Just folded my iPad Mini in half 🙈 The ‘Duo Effect’ is going to get expensive… #Apple #AppleEvent #iPhoneDuo #tech #JohnTernus @Apple @TheAppleDesign @johnternus @JonyIveParody

If you think the world of Mobility is getting boring and there’s nothing exciting to choose from… think again. Especially as it’s #WorldEVDay ⚡️ Here’s to the Crazy Ones. And I’m celebrating just a few of the electrified mobility marvels I’ve been fortunate to experience over the past decade. – @CitroenUK Ami Buggy – @MaevingElectric RM1 – @AustinMotorCo1 Arrow – Northern Light 630 – @FIAFormulaE (yes, that is the very first gen pre-production car @LucasdiGrassi ) – @Hyundai_UK IONIQ 6 N – @renault_uk Symbioz Concept – @RBWClassicElec Roadster – @LucidMotors Air – @Hyundai_UK_PR N Vision 74 The future’s bright and exciting and electric (and I’m still a petrolhead too 🔥) #cars #automotive #Mobility #Design #IoT #Innovation #EV #Citroen #Maeving #FormulaE #Hyundai #Renault #Lucid @SMMT

I spent 128 minutes with the fools who dream at the weekend. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the wonderful La La Land, my youngest daughter Hattie and I lived and breathed the movie as it returned home to the silver screen. Hattie is a budding film director so it’s more than a favourite for both of us – it’s a beautiful audio visual example of on-screen chemistry in ‘one of those movies they just don’t make any more’.  There are two notable moments in the movie where the absence of sound plays a key role.  The first hits directly after the musical riot of a concert with John Legend and the band (in direct contemporary contrast to the previous live jazz club performances). On the last note, the screen cuts to black and all audio drops, leaving the audience adrift with the memory of the performance. It’s quite literally the sound of silence. The second is more subtle. During a heated conversation over a home cooked (burnt!) meal Gosling and Stone hit a key point in the debate at the exact moment the record playing in the background ends. Although other ambient sound and even the conversation continue, the perfectly-timed absence of this musical layer (effectively the soundtrack) is extraordinarily powerful. Both are examples of taking a beat and using quiet or silence for punctuation. There’s a real life lessen here as so very few moments of calm exist in our always-on lifestyles. Step back and breathe. The other, even more personal scene from the movie is Emma Stone’s audition song ‘The Fools Who Dream’. I love every word, so much so I’ve included them below. I can relate, Hattie can relate, I hope they mean something to you too. La La Land may seem like a movie they don’t make any more, but I’m so very glad they do. So bring on the rebels, the ripples from pebbles, the painters, the poets and plays. And don’t be afraid to make a mess. Here’s to the ones who dream, Foolish as they may seem, Here’s to the hearts that ache, Here’s to the mess we make, She captured a feeling, Sky with no ceiling, The sunset inside a frame, She lived in her liquor, And died with a flicker, I’ll always remember the flame, Here’s to the ones who dream, Foolish as they may seem, Here’s to the hearts that ache, Here’s to the mess we make, She told me “A bit of madness is key To give us new colours to see, Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us” So bring on the rebels, The ripples from pebbles, The painters, and poets, and plays, And here’s to the fools who dream, Crazy as they may seem, Here’s to the hearts that break, Here’s to the mess we make. #LaLaLand #movie #film #cinema #motivation #creativity #muisc @LaLaLand @Lionsgate @LionsgateUK

We’ve got tonight. Who needs tomorrow. #RIPDolly

I’ve finally caught up with #VenomTheLastDance and can’t help but feel this scene is #TomHardy’s Bond audition… #Bond #JamesBond @007 @VenomMovie

What a ridiculous debate on #GMB this morning. No, balaclavas are not worn by ‘innocent’ individuals (especially in the summer!) Unless you’re Ronnie Barker.

Yay, fireworks 🧨 No, wait… what’s that? There’s a drought? Everything’s highly flammable? Oh cock. #UKdrought #Frimley #Fire #FrimleyFire

Anyone else drop a disposable BBQ on their box of fireworks when the #SevereAlert warning went off?!? It’s all gone horribly wrong 🔥

Let’s talk about sex. Yes, sex. We don’t talk about it much, or write about it and we rarely admit to thinking about it. But if you follow the AI hype-train and the billions invested in the new Sam Altman and Jony Ive double act, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’ll soon all be talking to our beautifully designed wearable devices, or Meta perv-glasses, or an omnipresent personal assistant. Because if you believe all the experts, the phone is dead (like the cinema – tell Spiderman and Christopher Nolan, or publishing – book sales rose to 3.15 billion in 2025). Park that thought for a second while you consider how we actually use those mini computers in our pockets. We watched an average of 547 hours of video content per person last year. We collectively spent 444.6 billion hours playing mobile games. We looked at over 1 trillion kilometres of maps… … and we furtively sent explicit pictures and engaged in sexting – often in public (albeit with the screen discreetly angled away from prying eyes). So what happens when we take the screen away? Because the phone is dead, right? In the future we’ll all just be talking to our devices? Or offering up hand gestures (good luck with those!) Suddenly that beautiful AI device, worn like expensive jewellery, or your voice operated AI/AR glasses are delivering more problems than solutions when we need to offer a sexy response or your latest message is being read aloud to a carriage full of commuters! Sexting is just an extreme example of what happens when we take away features we assume are expendable in the name of progress. But much like 3D TVs, or the Humane AI Pin, or almost any device Will.i.am has produced, simply making it doesn’t mean we’ll ever want to use it. Spare a thought for all those poor tech experts and AI entrepreneurs who haven’t even considered how millions of consumers would cope without x-rated emojis, WhatsApp innuendo or freely communicating exactly how you feel and you’ll find the phone is far from dead. It’s time to read the room, not spy on it. It’s 2026 and hardly anyone’s talking about sex. Except @cindygallop of course, because she’s always understood the benefits of talking about it and acknowledging it as part of our lives – as a consumer or a brand. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #IoT #Innovation #FutureTech #SexTech #sex

.@Bugatti’s latest 1-of-1 £10,000,000+ Destrier hypercar does of course look incredible from the outside, but I’m more interested in the interior. @ConsoliniSabine, Head of Color and Trim has clearly had unrestrained fun with the cockpit. Cars at this level run the risk of wealthy clients with zero taste dictating the colour palette and spec’ing materials worthy of their own 1980’s soap opera. Fortunately, the balance has been comfortably struck between luxury, sculpture and steam punk. I love the technical simplicity of the sole digital driver display, the extraordinary swoop of the seats, central tunnel and footwell, the exposed trunking for the ventilation and the retro-tech tactility of the switchgear. The dash material does look a bit like ham in the photos, but I guess you can’t have everything 😂 #Bugatti #BugattiDestrier #hypercar #supercar #automotive #design #art #luxury

Sweet Jeebus, the comments on @F1 posts are utter utter chaos the last couple of years. Either people hating on each other (and the drivers), copying and pasting other genuine commentary, or just bots 😂 What a mess. #F1 #HungarianGP

Let’s go back to the future – 1983 to be precise. Who remembers (or has even heard of) Automan? A short-lived US TV series that used a black @Lamborghini Countach LP400, covered with reflective strips to look like a wireframe car from the future. Fast forward 43 years and the Italian supercar manufacturer has introduced the ‘Temerario Ad Personam’. If you simply read the PR fluff, it is “Inspired by the world of alta moda, the project reinterprets Temerario's bold proportions through a visual language borrowed from sartorialism. The exterior livery recalls the lines of an automotive design sketch” Not even a whisper of Automan. Opportunity missed. Huge PR and social amplification discarded. There’s a lot more PR word salad, but at least lean into great partnership opportunities and storytelling if you’re going to design a car to look like this. I’m pretty sure there are many children of the 80’s (and TRON!) that have grown up with a Lamborghini on their wish list, so you’d hardly be alienating an audience – you’re talking WITH them, rather than AT them. #Lamborghini #cars #automotive #design #Innovation #marketing #brand #Temerario #Automan #entertainment #1980s