When the Internet of Things fails
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
Archive for Gadgets
My favorite April Fool’s items
My favorite April Fool's items this year were some great products from Think Geek: Play-Doh 3D Printer Dharma Initiative Alarm...
The transparent society: arriving soon?
I read only an excerpt from David Brin's 1998 nonfiction book The Transparent Society, but the gist of its argument...
3D printing explosion
Seems like everyone's talking about 3D printing lately. For the first time, I'm actually tempted to buy a 3D printer,...
New toy!
I was sad a couple weeks ago when ThinkGeek sold out of portal guns six minutes before I saw...
Best. Demo. Ever.
Google's annual developer conference, I/O, is going on this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Yesterday morning, the keynote...
My first Kindle
The latest generation of the Kindle—not the Kindle Fire, not the Kindle Touch, just the plain old Kindle—finally has the...
ecomics: Birds of Prey
DC Comics is rebooting various series and characters, and Dave S linked the other day to a good article by...
iPad 2
Tried out an iPad 2 in the store a few weeks ago, shortly after it came out; liked it a...
New mobile device
I recently purchased a new mobile device. It arrived in the mail yesterday. It's portable; it can perform all sorts...
Judging a person by their book covers
In olden days when people used to read printed books, if you saw someone reading in public, you might be...
I think I’ve ordered an iPhone 4
Kept trying the iPhone preorder process now and then all day. It kept timing out for most of the day....