Now before you wonder what I’m drinking, hear me out. Imagine having a 7 inch phone that’s as easy to use as a 4 inch phone. In fact it’s far easier, has great one handed use and doesn’t look daft using it for phone calls.

Not possible I hear you say. But it is if the 7 inch screen rolls up on to your arm. Now, part of the screen displays the salient info and if you need full browsing mode, you simply unravel the screen and use it like you would any tablet of today incarnation.

Now lets take this one step further. The tablet is rolled up on your arm and you need to send an email. Instead of unravelling and tapping the screen, you simply are able to think the words, and they will appear on the screen. Voice dictation is so yesterday.

A weekend futuristic view of technology.

If you are old enough, think back 10 years, and recall what sort of phone you had and if you had a PDA. Think about how expensive a 64gb memory card was.

Each time a new phone or PDA got released it was a remarkable jump forward in features normally. But if you recall the technology wasn’t flawless. Time was required to tweak the product to make it function better.

Fast forward to 2013, and go back a few years. The phones that were being produced weren’t perfect and custom android roms and jail breaking made a difference to many. In 2013, both aspects are available but the need for either on new devices is questionable. The tech is very advanced now and features now provided in newer operating systems.

Some of you will already have top notch phones from Samsung or Apple. The cameras and how they perform are already incredible. So do we really need the phones to do more. And how much more advanced can they really move forward.

The problem now is all phones being released are perfectly adequate for most things. Are we just getting bored of a near perfect machine and therefore expect more than is really possible?

What do you believe?

It’s 2013. More and more news about large companies and Internet services being hacked. Everything from the New York Times, Twitter, Somy and so much more.

In fact they reckon the problem is so severe we may never know the true extent. As cloud services become more and more prevalent what happens when our entire online life is hacked.

Just imagine you have no access to your social media, your email, your stored media (photos, music and important files) and worse you out of control with your financial affairs. Now imagine your hackers not only sell your personal data, but then delete your entire online music and files etc.

Now you might say this wont happen at this level, but actually it already has. Now just think about this scenario but on a global scale. Terrorist attack but online and one that wipes everything out. Sounds dramatic, like the film the Day After Tomorrow. But it does worry me that this could one day happen. And remember hacking technology can also be done on machinery and power stations.

I wonder how easy it would be to recover individually and then to recover on a global scale. What do you think about this?

Dell the world’s third-biggest computer manufacturer has gone private in a $24.4 billion deal that gave $13.65 per share in cash to shareholders.

The transaction is financed through a combination of cash and equity contributed by Michael Dell and other investment funds, including a$2 billion loan from Microsoft.

Microsoft has a canny knack of helping companies in need. Apple for example.

Lets hope this move drives Dell to new heights.