Sinclair C5 to guide development. Gus Desbarats, the C5's industrial designer, attributes the vehicle's flawed concept to Sinclair operating in a "bubble" and believes that Sinclair "failed to understand the difference between a new market, computing, and a mature one, transport, where there were more benchmarks to compare against". He comments that the experience of working on the C5 convinced him of the need for industrial designers such as himself to get "involved early in the innovation process, shaping basic configurations, never again [being] satisfied to simply decorate a fundamentally bad idea". Sinclair himself said in 2005 that the C5 "was early
Clive Sinclair and a wheelchair drive. Sinclair received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1983 Sinclair is a poker player and appeared in the first three series of the "Late Night Poker" on Channel 4. He won the first series final of the "Celebrity Poker Club" spin-off. On his religious views, Sinclair calls himself an atheist. He is a member of British Mensa and was chairman for 17 years from 1980 to 1997. Sinclair was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath in 1983. Despite his involvement in computing, Sinclair does not use the Internet, stating