Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids
When most parents think gadgets for kids, they tend to think like a little kid… which means video games. While it’s true that younger children (age range 5 to 12 years) will be impressed by video games, older kids entering their ‘tween and teen years expect something more. For [...]
Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses
Let us not be shy about it: When you use Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses and eyewear devices, you are officially living in the science fiction era. It’s no joke, you really have joined the era of *Star Trek*. We’re only a holodeck and transporter away from exploring the galaxy and talking [...]
Christmas Shopper Poll – The Favorite Gadgets…
In our latest popularity poll, we didn’t ask what the most useful gadgets were. Or the highest quality, or the most expensive, or the cheapest. No, our sole metric was “How much do you just love the crazy thing?” And in our informal office poll, this is what we came [...]
Will DOS Always Be With Us?
Kind of like the COBOL programming language, DOS is in a state of perpetually being declared dead, while still seeing moderate, if unenthusiastic, usage. There are very good reasons for this, but they lie in the murky depths of computing history.
To deal with COBOL first, the COmmon Business-Oriented Language came [...]
There needs to be a Gadget for everything? Right?
Well given that cardboard is so 1980’s and every item of clothing will soon need to have a battery to make it “do something” – the MingleStick fills an age-old niche. The business card replacement.
While I can’t see companies handing out MingleSticks instead of business cards to [...]
On occasion, I give presentations both in my office and traveling. I had considered buying a projector to use with my laptop, but put it off because most of the ones I had seen were bulky and expensive. I was thrilled when I came across the Pocket Projector for only $399. It is simple to [...]
No matter where you are in the world, it seems that technology and courts don’t mix very well. The legal profession seems to be particularly challenged at keeping up with the rapidly changing field of computing. And in turn, coders, developers, and geeks of every stripe seem to unanimously shy away from legal matters. It [...]
The generation of adults today cut their milk teeth on these classic platforms, and today they’ll be all too ready to shake their cane at you and tell you about how it was in the good old days. Their memories of their first BASIC program or first addictive game are tied in with their first [...]
As fast as technology moves, it’s always amazing when you reflect that the main medium hasn’t changed much. We started with IRC and Usenet and have come all the way to Twitter and SMS, and our primary means of communication is still sending each other little strings of text.
Well, games can be played in text, [...]
There seems to be a trope floating around out there that New Media Is Evil. Every generation has its moral panic, over literature, radio, comic books, TV, the Internet, and now, video games. Just to name a few, video games are being blamed for:
- Social isolation
- Increasing violence
- Addictiveness
- Lowering moral standards
- Psychological damage
Which, really, [...]
