Archive for Gadgets
Reminder tags
The other morning, I woke up with an idea for what could be a nifty tech toy: reminder tags. I'm...
RIP, Steven L. Inness
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, at Wilbur Middle School, the school's computer lab had a couple of...
Spinner fidget toys
I recently learned about a hot new toy: the spinner fidget toy. You hold it between thumb and finger...
Pournelle on ebooks, from 1980
Late in 2015, I read an issue of Destinies (a “paperback magazine”) from 1980; it included a piece by Jerry...
iPhone 6 Plus thoughts so far
I bought an iPhone 6+, mainly because it's almost exactly the size that I've been wanting for an ebook reader...
Some pros and cons of Glass
Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...
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...
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...