Well, if you’re like me, you’re having a really hard day dealing with the bankruptcy of one of the world’s best catalogs to ever make its way down the shitstream from God’s trash can on the crap ferry to hell. SkyMall. Continue reading
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If you ever wanted to read your car’s mind and see what it’s thinking about look no further than the ScanTool OBDLink LX Bluetooth
Just when we’ve begun to contemplate the need to possibly power down our dependence on our smartphones, Samsung jumps into the compact tech game and now introduces us to the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch. Yes, this is essentially a helper gadget for your already existing gadget. Continue reading
It seems the business model these days is to get us consumers to pay monthly for something we didn’t used to need to pay monthly for. Take music for instance, we all love music but a monthly subscription to a music service is an ongoing cost and it requires you to stay wired all the time. I could see using something like Xbox music if you can’t stand listening to the same tracks often. I prefer to hear my favorite tunes unless I’m in the mood for new music. When I’m driving isn’t when I’m in that mood. The solution for me is the SD and I’m really happy with it. Continue reading
When I originally learned of the Nest Learning Thermostat, I understood that its creator had a history within Apple and thus the design of the device was slick and it the device itself, revolutionary. Now I’m reading that the third generation Nest device is about to be released. The site, nest.com is touting the new device as having “a refined design that’s enclosed by a single solid stainless steel ring.” This starts to remind me of the song and dance we’re used to by now with Apple releasing an ever thinner and faster version of basically the same exact thing – year after year. So it seems that design isn’t the only thing Tony Fadell, (co) inventor of the iPod, learned from his days with Apple. Continue reading
Elevation Lab started with a simple idea, make a sturdy iPhone dock that can be used while the phone is still in a case and reduces the dock connector friction so the phone can be easily docked and un-docked. Sounds easy right? It isn’t. Let’s take a look at the form and function of the Elevation Dock for iPhone. Continue reading
Would we call that tech-o-cide? Heh. Well, some techie folks out there seem to think Siri is Apple’s current, biggest failure — and that’s a secret they’d like to keep. Continue reading
Oh good. Google has decided that the world is ready for digital glasses. That’s right. It’s just about time that we all had facts and data broadcast mere inches away from our eyeballs. This won’t be infuriating in the least. Not one single person will become that guy who has the new fangled Web-Specs, and like a cyborg, will start rattling off all the fun! exciting! mind-numbingly inane things! he just looked up on Google from rolling his head to the side, blinking at lightning speed, and basically walking into traffic because Todd, just had to show off. This thing will be awesome. (The machines. They’ve been sent to kill us.) Continue reading
Every now and then a story comes along that makes my acid reflux kick in. I’m still trying to digest a riveting story of the Foxconn plants in in Shenzhen, China where all things Apple (and a lot of other things) are made. Basically just deplorable working conditions like 16 hour shifts, no talking at work. None. Period. Overtime that doesn’t get paid out and if you complain you will be blacklisted and fired. On the job injuries that are completely avoidable like repetitious movements that are non-stop with no rotation into other duties. Think carpal tunnel but in a country where you’re not going to get any FMLA or Workers Comp. Underage workers and cluster suicides have been documented. It’s hard to listen to and not start thinking “I can’t believe everything I own,” and I mean actually a great deal of things I own since I am a computer nerd, a geek, a guru and a participating citizen of this great nation of consumption, “…is made in this manner.”