Microsoft’s Surface Touchscreen Computer
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Just because I think this is the coolest thing out there and I want one. Microsoft's table-top computer, brought to you by the Silicon Valley Insider.Check it out here.
Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Just because I think this is the coolest thing out there and I want one. Microsoft's table-top computer, brought to you by the Silicon Valley Insider.Check it out here.
You Want Traffic Reports? I Got ‘Em Right Here.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008One of the big drivers of traffic to news websites is traffic and weather (along with breaking news), but that may soon go the way of the classified ads thanks to Global Positioning System devices that can transmit data (uh oh, there's that word again. The bane of all newspaper ...
FCC Closes Spectrum Auction
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I've been covering the FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction on-and-off for the ECT News Network. Today, the auction closed, with four of the five main Blocks official sold. The fifth -- for public safety and private partnerships -- didn't make the cut. The $19 billion auction, though, is most significant because of ...
The Future of Paper: E Ink
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I've referenced -- on the site, and more recently during my talks -- the MIT company E-Ink, which created the technology that prints words on a digital read-out that look just like words on a page. It's a little freaky (and, as a side, part of a growing trend of digital ...
Flash Memory
Sunday, March 16th, 2008This isn't absolutely germane to the future of news, but it's certainly a new gadget that will make computers more efficient. Flash memory has been discussed as the new leap in technology. Here's a review at CNet as to what that means."A flash memory notebook: The sounds of silence."
Mobile Access Use Increasing
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Just as newspapers are starting to get their hands around banner advertising, rich media comes along. Then Adobe Air. And now: the mobile Web is quickly becoming a daily part of life (which is why I'm so sold on the Kindle), which further throws the advertising world into a tizzy.Our ...
Trackstick: Recording GPS Location on the Fly
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Jane McGonigal just spoke about Trackstick, a tracking device that records your GPS location every 5 seconds.Every reporter in the country should have one of these, hooked to some offline database with a mobile device, recording their information. You could dump much of the data that you need to deliver ...
GPS Phones Soon to be the Norm
Sunday, March 9th, 2008There's been a smattering of talk at SXSW about mobile devices, but I suspect that next year we'll be hearing much more. The reason: when mobile computing gets geo-location chips -- as most companies believe will happen next year -- suddenly the flow of information gets very interesting. When phones track ...
Haptics Will Change the Way We Interact
Saturday, March 8th, 2008When I was writing my piece on Carnegie Mellon's new haptic interface, I kept asking people if my basic premise was true: haptic technology will fundamentally restructure the way we interact with the data stream (or, in a less obtuse fashion, won't all these cool devices change how we play ...
Amazon Kindle: Wireless e-Reader
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I'm completely down with e-Readers. I use my computer for just about everything. It runs my home entertainment center (what, you pay for cable?). I have two at work (MS and Linux) and I'm about to have a third (Mac) for lessons in Media Informatics. What I really want, though, is ...
