Ben is an independent filmmaker, writer, and online content developer. He currently co-hosts and produces the weekly vodcast “FiST Chat,” dedicated to bringing insightful and entertaining discussions on all things film, science and technology. You can also see Ben as the co-host of the web series “Food Discoveries,” exploring various culinary experiences from around the world. Ben is the founder of production companies Digicosm and Small Wave Films, and has produced and directed numerous short films, feature films and documentaries since the late 1990s. When he’s not working, Ben indulges his love of traveling, food, technology, cinema, and music.

Life is moving faster than ever before. Finding balance in your life between all the things you want to achieve versus your obligations to family, friends and the like while still being able to take time out for yourself is a feat of super mental agility in today’s fast paced lifestyle. In a world w ...

If you had no idea what nutritious food was and only had a supermarket as a guide, you may be forgiven for naively thinking that the snack food aisle must fit the bill given the prominence supermarkets give to soft drinks, biscuits, chocolate and chips. The snack food aisle stands out like a neon si ...

By now, we all know the iPhone 5 has just about taken over the world (and every blog). Are you getting one? I will be, but I won’t be queuing up in the street for it like the fans are. The reports are that customers have been queuing up at stores in New York for up to four days before the release. A ...

A Star Trek replicator must be at the top of everyone’s wish list when it comes to preparing food. The idea that you can instruct a machine via voice command to produce a meal and then it magically appears a few seconds later sounds like magic. Yes, there will be the foodies out there who insist on ...

Drinking coffee has its pros and cons. With the amount of work I do during the week, whether it be producing a podcast, writing new blogs, working on my latest story ideas or any of the countless other tasks I set for myself, I constantly expect to maintain a state of full focus and concentration. T ...
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With all the hoopla surrounding the impending iPhone 5’s possible launch in September, a number of very talented people with maybe too much time on their hands have been creating some hilarious promo videos for the mythical new device. My favorite is an iPhone 5 parody written and directed by Adam S ...

Okay, maybe there is not an official disorder called "Instant Communication Disorder," but there might as well be. Have you checked if anyone’s liked your Facebook status in the past two minutes? Have you sent a tweet in the last three minutes? Have you pinned your latest recipe yet? Is your instant ...

Devices such as the iPhone, iPad, or any of the multitude of Android and Windows phones out there have rapidly turned into decent gaming machines. Steve Jobs may have once said that Apple didn’t set out to compete in the gaming market with the iPhone or iPad, but these devices suit the medium partic ...

Although I’m not an avid Star Wars memorabilia buyer or toy collector, even I had to do a double-take on the new “Star Wars Force Glove” developed by Uncle Milton’s Toys. The idea that you could strap on a glove and start pulling or repelling objects by seemingly using the force is the ultimate kid’ ...

Feeling secure in this lovely, shiny new online world of the cloud? Spare a thought for Wired Journalist Mat Honan who had his iCloud account breached in recent days. It wasn’t due to a disclosure of a password on Honan’s part however, but a slip up at AppleCare, making this for a very disturbing da ...

Channel 4 in the UK produced a fabulous comedy series called “The IT Crowd” which follows the internal exploits of an IT Help Desk. Whenever they answered a support call, they would say, “Hello IT Help Desk, have you turned it off and on?” This immediately came to mind recently when I had issues wit ...