The problem with these golf GPS devices is that most of them cost north of $300 in an era of smartphones with golf GPS apps that can be had for a song. There’s something to be said about simplicity, though – and battery …
Form + Function
Galileo Robotic iPhone Dock Lets You Pan and Tilt Video Chats Remotely
Galileo is a Kickstarter project billed as an “iOS-controlled robotic iPhone platform with infinite spherical rotation capability.” Translation: You dock an iPhone into it, which can then be tilted and panned remotely via another …
Flying Cars: Finally Here… Kind Of
Whenever I imagine a flying car, which is quite often for some reason, it usually looks like something out of The Jetsons or Back to the Future. Sadly, today’s flying cars look more like lackluster Transformers.
Not that the …
25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
Big Blue’s next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But it’s also never quite gone away
Paper: Beautiful, Basic Drawing for the iPad
For a product that never got out of Microsoft’s labs, Courier, the two-screen concept tablet, has certainly been in the news this week.
On Tuesday, an iPad app called Taposé — which tries to realize the Courier dream which …
Taposé: A Microsoft Tablet Concept Turned iPad App
GE’s Hundred-Year-Old Bulb: Still Bringing Good Things to Life
How many GE employees does it take to screw in a hundred-year-old light bulb? Hundreds of ’em — and the neat part is, it’ll still work.
On March 25th, 1912, a bunch of General Electric employees placed a time capsule inside …
Intel and Microsoft’s Secret Weapon Against Apple
Intel and its partners are about to launch the biggest promotion of a new product category called Ultrabooks since the company’s wi-fi based Centrino launch early last decade. And Microsoft is about to launch a major update to …
Lytro’s Light-Field Camera: Photography, Reimagined
In the world of technology, there are three kinds of change. There’s the subtle, never-ending process of refinement we call evolution. There’s revolution, which is like evolution in fast-forward mode. And then, every once in a …
Windows 8’s Logo Is a Snoozer? Good!
It figures. I wrote a post about Windows 8 that included the current Windows logo, a fancy multicolored-waving-window-thingie-hovering-inside-a-glossy-circle. And then, shortly after pressing “Publish,” I read a Microsoft blog …
Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8: Oh, So Very Different
Microsoft’s Windows is a shameless imitation of Apple’s Macintosh.
You can debate whether that’s true. You can’t, however, argue that it’s not conventional wisdom: Apple has even joked about it in product launches.
But it …
Quick Cuts: Video Showcases Almost Every Apple Product in 30 Seconds
Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza strung together this great 30-second video of just about every one of Apple’s hardware and software designs over the years. It’s perfect for Apple fans and people with short attention sp—oh man, …