Dr. Mike North likes building stuff. A lot. At the start of his Sunday morning SXSW panel, North showed video of a trip to Lithuania, where he and a bunch of other engineers decided to build a snowbike by replacing the front wheel of a bicycle with a small pair of skis. North showed footage […]
Less than a week away from the 2013 Academy Awards and ABC Digital has given film freaks, celebrity hangers-on, and even red carpet mavens an impressive mobile app that delivers an award-worthy experience. Here’s ABC’s video introduction to the app: I’ve been using the Android version of ABC’s Oscars app for several days now, and […]
Today, in Bexar County, home to San Antonio, Texas’s lovely second city, they’re getting ready to open the United States’s first fully electronic public library. The new system will allow patrons to download thousands of e-texts from their homes. This digital library will also have a bright, shiny new high-tech central library branch where […]
Griffin announces the PowerDock 5, a solution for simultaneously charging up to five of your favorite iOS devices (even if all five are iPads in bulky cases). The toaster-like platform features adjustable plastic dividers and separate USB charging cables to attach to each device. The PowerDock should be available by Spring 2013, with a retail […]
The Idea S2110 takes what Lenovo is best known for (keyboards) and pairs it with a sleek, thin, and light tablet in a package that easily replaces a laptop for light work. Lenovo’s tablet is fairly run of the mill specs-wise, loaded with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 running at 1.5 Ghz, 1 GB of […]
Sometimes a 10-inch tablet is too large and a 7-inch tablet is too small. For those Goldilocks circumstances, the few 9-inch tablets on the market can make due. The Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A fits the bill, capable of both content creation and media consumption in a smaller, relatively light, and somewhat cheap package at only $299. […]
The event may have been cancelled, but not even Hurricane Sandy can stop Google’s announcement today, no matter how hard Microsoft wishes. In a flurry of press releases, Google has announced a pair of new Nexus devices, a new version of Android, and new versions of the Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 got a small price […]
Toshiba’s first entry into the Android tablet market, was a bit of a disappointment. A 10-inch Android 3.0 Honeycomb device, the Thrive looked like someone had seen an iPad and said “I know what this needs. Ports! And a removable battery!” Thrive made for a thick, somewhat cheap-feeling device, and it wasn’t a concept that […]
A new iPad just eight months after the last one. How could any company treat its loyal customers this way? Apple is the rising star of the tech world. The company with the largest market cap in the world, valued at over $800 billion. It has legions of fans, feverishly purchasing every new iProduct at […]
I confess that I didn’t expect today’s Apple Press event to surprise me. The whole world expected an iPad Mini and new Macbook. We even heard that there would be a new version of iBooks, Apple’s eReading app. What I don’t think many of us expected was desktop refreshes and yet another new iPad. Let’s […]
