back to Home page

Nigel Playford

Entrepreneur. Mentor. Scientist & engineer. Linguist. Executive Director

Interesting Links


Media, phone and computer network for the best homes

'Acramuse' is a domestic media communications and control system that provides services to every room in the house. Nothing of this capability or sophistication is available in the shops.

All services (films, TV, music, radio, photos, domestic internal telephone exchange, internet, computing, constant backup, TV recording & playback) are delivered to all rooms as required, in the same way as lighting and heating. They can be sent to many rooms at once, or any room at a time.

In some cases services can extend to the second home abroad, or to other family homes, all as if they were part of the same physical household. This includes short code internal room to room telephone calling and free access to the massive internal central store.

The system is designed for families who use media, computing and telecoms to improve and simplify their lives, and who wish to install a high performing and reliable infrastructure to support their needs over the next 10 years or so.

The system is expandable, upgradeable, compatible with all equipment (displays, TVs, radios, computers, home cinemas, and so on), and it’s open systems compliant.

Professional Ad resource

Click here to see the amusing side of TV advertising. Over 1m visitors a month go to visit4info.com to find specific ads, either for professional reasons or sometimes to look at the classic funny ads the industry has made.

Reliable computing...at almost no cost. Impossible ?

Click here to find out how. BabelDisc is due for release soon.

Turn your TV into a multi-media centre

A small investment in BabelTV will give you new powers: record, pause and reply live TV; watch You-Tube; surf the net & search with Google; make free phone calls. BabelTV and BabelBox are due for release soon.

Skiing...is that Africa ?

Ski from a greater height than Val d'Isère, from December to April, 80km of pistes... & enjoy the sun and tapas of Andalucia, staying 50 minutes away in the centre of Granada. You don't need to ski every day: stay in a glorious old luxury villa overlooking the ancient city, built into the walls of the Alhambra .....and there's always the broadband link and fixed phone with with a London number so you can always spend a "day in the office".

Yacht sailing in the Italian Islands

The food, the views, the beauty, the warmth, the history....
Either let a skipper sail your "floating private hotel" in the mediterranean sun to your favourite bay. Or sail it yourself, and stay overnight in your own yacht in the roman galley port in Ventotene. Perfect relaxing and cooling way to avoid the stress and crowds for a family holiday. Amazingly, to charter a yacht is less expensive than to travel with cars and hotels.

Granada...world heritage site

Rent the villa Carmen de Santa Ana in Granada Spain. A most astonishing home, available to let in Granada, itself one of the most impressive and captivating cities in the south of Europe. Extensive gardens, private pool, built directly beside the Alhambra in total seclusion, with fabulous views overlooking the ancient part of Granada capital of Spain in Moorish times. Sleeps 10 to 13, 4 bathrooms. Broadband, cook, maids, music all available.

Real Tennis

Tired of squash ? Exhausted even ! ? Wrong relationship between skill and subtlety versus sheer fitness ? Are you lucky enough to live near to one of the 45 courts of this addictive game, The King of all Racquet Sports ?

home page