Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

GPS Phones Soon to be the Norm

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

There'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, 2008

When 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, 2008

I'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 ...

The Modern Journalist

Monday, February 25th, 2008

I've been a journalist since 1995, although I could easily say that I've done the job of a journalist my whole life. I was a curious kid. Some say obnoxiously curious. And that hasn't slowed down as I've gotten older. On more than one occasion, I've been told that having a ...