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Me and my tech

  • Musician Jack Garratt.

    Jack Garratt: ‘The way I make music would be sacrilegious to some’

    The Brits 2016 Critics Choice winner on recording music on the cheap, meeting fans online and conquering his fear of flying
  • Edith Bowman

    Edith Bowman: ‘I'm a human emoji’

    The DJ on how the USB stick changed her life, her lovely old iMac and keeping in touch with her rock star husband
  • hi-res Eddie Izzard by Pal Hansen NOT for the Observer

    Eddie Izzard: ‘People only have selective techno-fear. Usefulness overcomes phobia’

    The technology-loving standup on staying ahead of the class in 1974, learning French from his mobile phone and his addiction to all things Apple
  • Kirstie Allsopp

    Kirstie Allsopp: ‘You can’t house-hunt online. You have to see it in person’

    The TV property guru on her technophobe co-presenter Phil Spencer, her love of Apple and why she likes to ‘microwave’ her hair curlers
  • Olympic gymnast Louis Smith.

    Louis Smith: ‘There's some messed up stuff on the internet – but porn's all right’

    The Olympic gymnast on living in a ‘brilliant party house’, his 50 pairs of headphones and why he wouldn’t want to travel in a driverless car
  • Ana Matronic in London.

    Ana Matronic: ‘I’d love to be a cyborg and have bionic legs – a little bit longer than my current ones’

    The Scissor Sisters singer can’t wait to see what technology has in store for humanity, so long as it doesn’t involve Facebook
  • william hurt

    William Hurt: ‘My competition these days isn’t another actor. It’s a computer-generated image at Pixar’

    The American star of Humans likes computer science, but hates autocorrect. As for owning a robot, he’s really not sure…
  • Gareth Malone

    Gareth Malone: ‘I’ve arranged music on planes, boats and trains’

    The choirmaster says technology has transformed his work and he even auditions singers via Skype and FaceTime
  • Ed Stoppard is photographed at the Jerwood Space in south London, England.

    Ed Stoppard: ‘I’ve got a drawer filled with wires. And I don’t know what any of them do’

    The Upstairs Downstairs actor breaks the rules on Twitter and would really like to print a 3-D prosthetic hand
  • Olivia Grant from Indian Summers

    Olivia Grant: Gadgets? My wine fridge makes me feel incredibly grown up

    Once a technophobe, the Indian Summers star, 31, is now trying to get to grips with technology – from Skype auditions to her new camera
  • Kevin Pietersen

    Kevin Pietersen: Technology has helped cricket, from analysis to umpiring

    Kevin Pietersen: Amid talk of a return to the England team, the batsman sets out his views on planes, training and automobiles
  • Ben Miller, who starred in Death in Paradise, is the lead in Asylum, the new BBC4 satire.

    Ben Miller on being a teenage geek, his CGI lizard and the key to a happier life

    The star of a new BBC4 comedy, Asylum, based on Julian Assange, gives the lowdown on his favourite gadgets
  • Suzi Perry – a true tech lover.

    Suzi Perry on F1 technology, her love of Apple and useful emojis

    The BBC sports correspondent’s favourite devices include her headphones – and a submarine
  • Tess Daly gaming

    Tess Daly: ‘Googling yourself is the road to destruction. Never done it, never will’

    The Strictly Come Dancing presenter on being a strict mum over computers, the tech-savvy Bruce Forsyth and why she loves WhatsApp
  • Professor Steven Pinker

    Steven Pinker: ‘Twitter can hone your skills as a writer’

    Steven Pinker, the linguist and author on social media, publishing his genome and sex with a robot
  • Beth Tweddle

    Beth Tweddle: why the best way to cope with trolls is to ignore them

    The former gymnast talks about being abused on Twitter, loving Candy Crush and encouraging kids to be active
  • Edinburgh International Book Festival

    Ruby Wax: ‘You can’t blame the internet for your mental probems’

    The comedian talks about her shopping and phone addictions, her love for her MacBook and why she doesn’t use Facebook
  • Zoe Wanamaker technology

    Zoë Wanamaker: 'Technology baffles me, but I'd like an invisibility cloak'

    The star of Mr Selfridge loves predictive text, uses the web to research roles, but once had a bad experience with a juicer, writes Michael Hogan
  • Dan Snow

    Dan Snow: 'Anyone who doesn't love Twitter is an idiot'

    The TV history presenter says technology has infuriated the old school, but made the subject exciting and more accessible

  • Chris Addison

    Chris Addison: me and my tech

    Chris Addison: The writer and comedian on his life-long love of Apple, a childhood obsession with Chuckie Egg and yearning for a gadget that will clean his garden pond
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