Lifestyles
Project Blade Runner: The Personal Computer Of 2019
Monday, May 9th, 2011Per ZDNet: With ZDNet having just celebrated its 20th anniversary in April of 2011 and publishing a number of retrospectives on how technology has evolved over the last twenty years, both Scott Raymond and I decided that it might make for an interesting thought experiment to try to project what personal computing might actually evolve [...]
Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
Thanks To The Razer Hydra, Now You’re Thinking With Motion-Control
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Razer, the world’s leading high-end precision gaming brand announces the Razer Hydra, the world’s first gaming-grade motion sensing controllers powered by Sixense, built to draw you deeper into your PC games. Razer worked closely with Valve and Sixense to create exclusive Portal 2 content to showcase the power of the Razer Hydra in enhancing game [...]
Nook Color Steps Up Its Tablet Game
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Per Paul Demery of Internet Retailer: Is it an e-reader or a tablet? At less than half the price of an iPad 2 and small enough to fit in a handbag, the latest version of Barnes & Noble Inc.42BarnesandNoble.com Inc. Books / Music / VideosOnline Sales:$493,000,000 (IR estimate)Growth:5.8%See More. ’s Nook Color is chockfull of [...]
Sony Dives Into Tablet Race
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011According to CNN Money: Sony is diving into the tablet race, announcing Tuesday that is working on two gadgets that will hit the market this fall. One of the tablets, code-named S1, will be a flat slate with a 9.4-inch screen, just a touch smaller than Apple’s iPad. Its S2 tablet will be more unusual, [...]
Introducing the iWatch!
Friday, April 22nd, 2011According to Retrevo, this is the next generation Apple product! iPhone & iPod on your wrist. Coming Soon? Apple, you listening?
Smartphone Photos Can Reveal Private Information
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011According to a report by WSOTV: Smartphone users and their children could be targets of a new kind of stalking without ever knowing it. Many parents don’t realize that pictures taken with smartphones and uploaded to the Internet could give a predator all the information needed for stalking or even an abduction. Police Detective Walt [...]
New ‘watch’ measures central aortic systolic pressure
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011In what is being hailed by experts as a “scientific breakthrough” that could “revolutionize” the way blood pressure is measured, researchers in Singapore and the UK report in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on a novel device that can measure blood pressure near the heart. The CASPro blood [...]
Softbank’s Ultra Simple Single-Button Phone
Saturday, February 12th, 2011This new cell phone from Japan’s Softbank and ZTE is more of a security device than anything else. It’s kind of like a one-button panic alarm that’s wired into a cell phone. Apparently it’s designed for preschoolers and seniors. Yes, smartphones don’t work for everyone, but I’m a bit surprised that this phone only has [...]
Nielsen: U.S. smartphone ownership higher among minorities
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Almost a third (31 percent) of all mobile phone users in the United States own smartphones, but their adoption is higher among specific minority groups, says a report out today from Nielsen. Based on a survey conducted in December, Nielsen found that 27 percent of white mobile phone users in the U.S. currently own smartphones. [...]