Paul Whytock

Paul Whytock is Technology Correspondent for Electropages. He has reported extensively on the electronics industry in Europe, the United States and the Far East for over thirty years. Prior to entering journalism, he worked as a design engineer with Ford Motor Company at locations in England, Germany, Holland and Belgium.

Governmental EV Decisions Stall and are Fuel-Cell Cars an Environmental Non-Starter?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared diesel carcinogenic, fuel-cell cars may damage the environment and government hinders sales of electric vehicles.  Not the essentia

Environment | 02-10-2019

Is Brainwave Technology The Future?

Orwell’s Thought Police would love this technology…so might the hackers. Tiny electro-threads that can be implanted in the brain right next to our neural networks that will read ou

29-08-2019

Graphene Technology Finally Grows Up

The emergence of graphene technology back in 2004 sent physicists and electronics engineers into euphoric spasms about its operational potential.  But as always with ground-breakin

06-08-2019

Killer Electric Vehicles Must Now Make a Noise

The Consequences of Silent EVs It's certainly true that slow-moving electric vehicles (EVs) are deadly quiet and there are cases where that operational silence has killed pedestria

19-07-2019

Sensor technology cuts secondary earthquake fire risk

An earthquake registering 5.9 on the Richter scale may only be classed as moderate but it will damage old and weak buildings and is downright scary. I know, I experienced one durin

03-07-2019

Could robots make a better Brexit decision than our MP's?

The answer, despite the perpetual comedy of our elected Members of Parliament scampering around like headless chickens trying to reach a sensible Brexit decision, is no. It’s no be

07-06-2019

Big Brother may be watching but will he recognise you?

Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement Be in no doubt, you are being watched. Londoners on average will be CCTV'd 300 times a day and across the UK there are about 4.3 million camer

21-05-2019

Paint Your Car Solar! A Groundbreaking Idea For Vehicle Manufacturers

Have you ever left your hire car parked in the Spanish sun? If so, you’ll know just how blisteringly powerful that ball of solar energy can be. I mention this because I recently be

18-04-2019

In-Car Black Boxes Will Soon Be Stopping You Speeding

Cars that automatically comply with speed limits are set to become a reality and black box data recorders will legally ensure you don’t disable the speed control system. Many of yo

04-04-2019