When I was just a kid I asked my mother for a Dymo label maker for my birthday. I just thought it was the coolest thing and started making labels for everything in wood grain, black , and red peel-off tape with embossed lettering in white. Such a simple device but I had to figure [...]
Sometimes we get so entrenched in our traveling habits that it takes an event for travel press like the recent Connected Traveler Technology Showcase to open our eyes to some serious technology as well as gadgets and devices that make traveling more efficient and enjoyable. Here are some of them. My next post will look [...]
There’s a new kind of remotesourcing that is offering people an opportunity to keep their job while taking care of their kids. Visit Anybot headquarters in Mountain View and you’ll most likely be greeted by a pleasant-looking robot with an even more pleasant voice belonging to Suzanne, who is actually at home with her pink fuzzy slippers and kids, and [...]
Ask me my opinion in a survey and I’ll usually decline, knowing that there’s some sales pitch attached, or my name and personal information will go into some deep repository to receive never-ending spam. But there was something about the two freshly scrubbed kids in the Senado Square in Macao that made me stop, and [...]
Looks like the tablets are coming out from all over the place and the big boys are aiming squarely for Apple. And today’s announcement of the Kno tablet is a very exciting one indeed, particularly for the education market. I bought a 7” Pandigital Novel tablet from the Walgreen’s web site a couple of weeks ago. Yes, [...]
Unless he’s one of those Arnold Schwarzenegger-dubbed “girlie men”, no guy in his right mind will carry around this netbook himself, but he sure might consider giving it to his Poopsie. Spotted on Shanzai.com, this rhinestone sweetheart netbook comes from China, created by the very independent Shanzai developers who keep surprising us with unusual mobile products. [...]
The introduction of the iPad was met with dire predictions that it would be an eReader killer but is that really the case? In a recent article industry pundit, Om Malik, praises Amazon’s move to open up the Kindle to developers and its plans to issue an SDK. Question is, for what kind of applications? [...]
Almost as soon as the iPad arrived the pundits were saying that it would cannibalize netbook sales. NPD Group countered Wall Street analyst Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley in May saying it was too soon to tell. But all the while, says Richard Brown of the blog, BrownKnows, everyone may be looking in the wrong [...]
One of the irritations that goes along with owning an iPhone is the perpetual need to clean its surface. It looks oh so pretty when you firest take it out of the box – and after that, it’s a perpetual battle to keep it clean. Seems I was constantly grabbing a sleeve, a tissue or an eyeglass cloth from the optometrist to [...]
Ever wonder how Dad could answer all your questions? And then you grew up and got smarter. Now you can give him a Father’s Day gift that fits in a shirt pocket and help him reclaim his place as the smartest guy on earth: The WikiReader is a small handheld device powered by two AAA batteries [...]