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The creator of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and C5 electric tricycle, who revolutionised the British electronics industry, died on September 16 last year aged 81.

The creator of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and C5 electric tricycle, who revolutionised the British electronics industry, died on September 16 last year aged 81.

I’ve just been playing with one of the new VL53L5CX Time-of-Flight 8x8 Multizone Ranging Sensors from STMicroelectronics. On the bright side (no pun intended), this involved a laser beam bouncing all around my office. Sad to relate, however, I couldn’t see it because it was outside the range of human vision. I tell you --…

The journalist who took the tricycle for test drive wrote: “Formula One bath-chair … had travelled five yards outdoors when everything when phut.”

The link is to what appears a genuine model-railway supplies retailer, and its catalogue does list various materials like Humbol Paints and other general products by names well-known in model-making. Though I sighed into the monitor when I saw they have listed gears as "cogs", and offered no apparent purposes. Nevertheless I agree with Jeff that whoever is using the Basset-Lowke name in the background, is merely cheapening it. In this case it could also give very widely-distorted views of old-t...