When Lytro released its namesake digital camera last spring, it wasn’t immediately clear what sort of person would want to buy it. On one hand, it was a genuine technological breakthrough: As the first consumer light-field …
Portables
Who Cares About Neil Young’s Ultra-High Quality Music Standard?
Neil Young claims he’s going to change the way we listen to digital music by pairing a new iPod-competitive Pono music player (I see “Ponyo” — how about you?) with an audiophile-caliber music download service. The claims are …
Pono: Can High-Quality Audio Sell Neil Young’s Portable Music Player?
Having conquered rock and roll, Neil Young is setting his sights on consumer electronics with Pono, a portable music player and accompanying high-quality audio service coming next year.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review: The Screen Makes It the Best E-Reader Yet
We live in the era of gadgets that want to do it all. The typical smartphone of 2012, for instance, isn’t content to just be a phone. It also wishes to be a PC, a still camera, a camcorder, a music player, a gaming console, a …
Apple Rolls Out New iOS 6 Software: Here’s What You Need to Know
Apple’s Secrets Aren’t So Secret Anymore, and That’s O.K.
Surprises about different products are nice, but they aren’t the ultimate goal if the idea is to sell lots and lots of gadgets
Apple’s Most Curious Move: Killing the Wearable iPod Nano
If you look at the iPod Nano through the years, it’s hard to tell what Apple wants the product to be.
Apple has reinvented the diminutive music (and sometimes video) player on a nearly annual basis, swinging it from tall and …
Apple Rolls Out ‘Maximum Funness’ iPod Touch, Revamps iPod Nano Line
At one point in time, the iPod Touch was “the funnest iPod ever.” That was the marketing slogan. Now, the new iPod Touch has been “engineered for maximum funness.” The spell checker on my blogging software is screaming at me …
Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User
When it comes to computers, southpaws are faced by a vast right-hand conspiracy.
Nintendo 3DS XL Review: Bigger, Refined, but Still-Flawed 3D
If the original 3DS seemed a little puny for a games handheld touting “glasses-free 3D,” Nintendo’s new, almost paperback-sized $200 3DS XL expands your range of options to two: pint-sized or big gulp.
If you already own a …
Must-Have Back to School Gadgets: 5 Smart Picks for Every Budget
It doesn’t matter what grade your child is going into this fall — there’s at least one high-tech tool they’ll both want and need this year. But with the average American spending some $700 per young student and $1,000 on …
Isn’t It Time for a PlayStation Vita Price Cut?
It’s looking more like a long, slow bridge to who-knows-where for Sony’s silent running PlayStation Vita. No, I don’t have official sales figures in front of me, but Sony’s reticence about said figures is telling. Companies can’t …
