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Rory cellan—jones, reports. his drive and enthusiasm made him one of britains best known inventors. the whole business of invention is a non—material thing. its very hard to know why it gives such pleasure. clive sinclairs fascination with gadgets started at school and by his late teens, he was selling his own electronic kits by mail order and writing technical manuals. file: he then put a magnifying bubble over each digit - to make it visible. an obsession with miniaturisation saw him launc...

It was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try some things sometimes they succeed you try some things and they succeed and sometimes they dont. and i dont look back on it and say to myself the cs was a wildest idea which failed because people jumped on it, i dont think thats true. i think it was not good enough to succeed, simple as that. having run out of money, sinclairwas forced to sell his computer business to a budding entrepreneur called alan sugar. undeterred, he continued his quest for a new...

There, victoria. it has got everyone thinking about that. lets take a look at todays papers. the issue of travel dominates the front pages this morning. the daily mail is reporting that travel testing rules are to be torn up for the fully vaccinated. according to the paper, the double—jabbed will no longer have to take pcr tests when they return from abroad. that is ahead of an announcement we expect from the transport secretary today. the times says dozens of countries, including turkey, are ...

The ministers turn up for their first cabinet meeting, but i suspect there is apprehension behind the smiles about how exactly they will deliver on what is a tight timescale.— sir clive sinclair, the british inventor who created one of the first pocket calculators and brought affordable home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. largely self—taught, he began inventing gadgets while he was still at school, and is widely known for his creation of the ill—fated sinclair c5 elect...

Who gave millions their first introduction to computers that he will be remembered. he was responsible for so many things. fascinating, when you stop and go through. those little calculators. pocket calculators, pocket tv. he never stopped working. he never stopped thinking and inventing. a mind that did not stop. brilliant. heres sarah with a look at this mornings weather. good morning. a beautiful start for many. some mist and fog patches around, but this is sunrise taken by around, but this i...

Rory cellan—jones reports. his drive and enthusiasm made him one of britains best known inventors. the whole business of invention is a non—material thing. its very hard to know why it gives such pleasure. clive sinclairs fascination with gadgets started at school and, by his late teens, he was selling his own electronic kits by mail order and writing technical manuals. he then put a magnifying bubble over each digit to make it visible. an obsession with miniaturisation saw him launch the wo...

The multimillionaire entrepreneur launched the first affordable consumer computer in 1980.

The multimillionaire entrepreneur launched the first affordable consumer computer in 1980.

Which was his biggest success, credited by some with launching the uks computer and video games industries. more money had been poured into his obsession with a new form of urban transport. the sinclair c5, launched in the freezing winter of 1985, became something of a nationaljoke. and many critics complained it was unsafe on busy urban roads. you try some things and they succeed, and sometimes they dont. and i dont look back on it and say to myself the c5 was a wildest idea which failed becaus...

Halved. there is concern that the government needs to act now, theres pressure on the government to supply the system and also encourage more people to be vaccinated, and also to look out for many thousands of jobs that could be at risk after the furlough scheme ends at the end of the month. we understand that an announcement will be made on friday afternoon, but the changes still need to be signed off on first. a ~ still need to be signed off on first. ~ ~ , , first. mark, keeping us up-to-date...