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Like millions of others, I’ve been glued to news sources to get as much current information as I can about the ongoing disasters in Japan following the massive earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear plant disasters. This has to be the biggest natural disaster that has occurred in my lifetime. In pre-Internet days, we had to rely on newspapers and television
As I continue to live in a world of both Android and iOS apps, I have a few observations. These should serve as lessons for would-be app designers. The most useful apps are those that take a single to narrow range of tasks that can be accomplished conventionally on a computer browser and squeeze them down into a simple interface
For some time now, when it came to desktop and laptop computer hardware, innovation has seemed to be somewhat stagnate. After all, what more can be done with word processing software? How can spreadsheets possibly be improved? How can the browsing experience be made better? Can email be made more effective or efficient? Form impacts function, but function often defines
Since getting the latest version of the 32 gigabyte iPod Touch a couple of months back, one of the uses that has surprised me has been late-night movie-watching after I’ve gone to bed but am not yet drowsy enough to go to sleep. The iPod Touch works extremely well for this task. I am able to pair the iPod to
Scott gets a demo of Orbotix's Sphero from Adam, one of the company's founders. At first glance, Sphero is a robotic ball remotely controlled from a smartphone or tablet. Yes, I was kind of underwhelmed too, but fortunately, it's a bit more than that. To start with, Sphero is as much a game development platform as it is a product
Esby and Jeffrey chat to Gregory Borchardt of Oxygen Audio about the O Car, a car stereo head unit that uses the iPhone as the control surface and media library. For me, this was the product of CES - it's just so clever. Oxygen Audio provide a custom app through the Apple store which controls all the features of the
Michael Williams from XpanD takes Andy McCaskey through the benefits of their range of universal 3D glasses. Unbelievably, the 3D glasses provided with active-shutter 3D TVs are not always compatible between brands. It's sometimes possible to make them compatible by wearing the glasses upside down but clearly this is an unsatisfactory solution for long-term viewing. I know, you couldn't make