May 20 2013
This post originally appeared at Living on the Cheap. Apparently, there is an unspeakable cruelty in the world of a teenager. “Dad, everyone at school has an XYZ3000 smart phone. I can’t even look at Google Maps on this stupid flip phone and I probably won’t even get to go to prom because of it.” Teenagers also …
May 14 2013
Apr 25 2013
Excellence is its own reward. At least, that was what my father used to say to me when he did not think that I had done a job that met his standards. He was a man that could express paragraphs of disdain by pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. Of course, …
Mar 04 2013
A very wise pundit once said. “The limitation of our productivity in modern times is measured in milliwatt hours.” Actually, I think I said that. Let’s downgrade that to…”A two-bit hack with an overwrought sense of self-importance and a website designed to fulfill his Machiavellian tech fantasies said that.” Of course, it is still true …
Feb 28 2013
It was not many years ago that we I went to a big box store to shop for technology. CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City and others got a portion of my tithe to the temple of tech. Obviously, the internet has changed much of that and two of those companies are no longer with us. …
Feb 24 2013
I had not heard of Mapi Cases until I made their acquaintance at the CES show last month. They make a range of upscale cases and covers for iDevices and high-end smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy and Note. The cases are hand crafted in Istanbul (not Constantinople) from real cow. That’s right, they are unapologetically …
Feb 21 2013
I love it when a company thinks out of the box…I mean, in the box…or rather with a box! WaterField Designs is one of those companies that makes spectacular products in the US with great customer service and just a WEE bit of attitude! Through the end of February their domestic customers will get a …
Jan 30 2013
I like it when a product shows up at NAMM and at CES. It is sort of like a mullet…business in the front and party in the back. OK, it is not anything like that. But if a company has the chutzpah to show a product at both shows…it had better be pretty cool. The …
Jan 07 2013
There seems to be a certain level of synchronicity in the discovery of new things. If I stumble on something amazing that I have never seen before, I often find it staring me in the face mere hours later. Something similar happened to me with Oberon Designs, a California based company that practices artisan design …
Dec 21 2012
Perusing the FAVI website yields what you would expect from an innovative entertainment company. Projectors, screens, televisions and a clever little HDMI widget called the SmartStick which is aimed squarely at giving Apple TV and Roku heartburn. But in a very Sesame Street moment (“One of these things is not like the other…come on, sing …
