What’s all the fuss about curved screens?
Curved screens on phones. Curved screens on TVs. It seems like everyone is gaga over curved screens all of a sudden. Is this a flash in the pan or is it a real thing? Curved screens…
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Spend one day without a DVR – I did
With all the talk of antenna TV and all the articles on this blog, I realized it had been years since I’d spent an entire day without a DVR. Maybe even as long as a decade,…
EDITORIAL: I don’t want an iBeacon
In Apple’s latest product reveal, there was a little bit of mention of iBeacons. You probably missed it if you were as frustrated as I was. iBeacons are a low-power technology that is designed to deliver information…
A life spent without a cable bill?
The new term is “cord-nevers.” It seems to stem from a series of articles over the past year in The Atlantic talking about the generation born after 1980 who may never get traditional pay-TV. They’re perfectly happy to make do…
EDITORIAL: Here’s why 4K won’t go mainstream
It was a little over a year ago that Sony showed one of the first production-ready 4K TVs at CEDIA Expo. Just three months later 4K was everywhere at the Consumer Electronics Show. That was just eight months…
What is “quality TV?”
As we inch closer to the end of Breaking Bad… there’s some argument as to what real “quality TV” is. Breaking Bad is arguably the best-produced, most meticulous show of the 2010s so far, but it’s not the only…
MARK THE DATE: Here’s where Apple’s design leadership ends
Seriously? Colored plastic and gold metal? Seriously, that’s what the world has been waiting for from an iPhone? When iOS 6 hit with a massive THUD last year you’d think that Apple would learn its lesson. Apparently not,…
Why a phablet?
For a generation raised on ever-smaller devices, the “phablet” craze doesn’t make any sense. Didn’t we leave gigantic cell phones behind in the 1980s? Younger folks are snapping up these half phone, half tablet devices in…
Another take on a la carte programming
A la carte programming. Everyone wants to pay for just what they watch. We’ve shown you before how that could end up costing you more, and how it’s not likely to happen as long as cable companies and content…
The police can find you by cell phone, and it’s totally legal.
In 1998, it was all science fiction. Most people don’t even remember Enemy of the State where Will Smith is having troubles and runs into Gene Hackman, a paranoid maniac who tells him that the government can track…
EDITORIAL: Copyright law is out of control
You know that song? You know, the one people sing when it’s someone’s birthday? I’d sing it to you now but it turns out it’s copyrighted. That’s why the people at The Olive Garden mumble something…
The nightmare scenario of streaming TV
No live video, anywhere. It could happen. Here’s the recipe for Armageddon: First, local broadcasters start to fall when the networks stop being able to deliver full-time programming. Honestly we’re halfway into this. NBC’s well-publicized fall will be just…
An artificial brain. What could go wrong with that?
Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war ‘Judgment Day.’ They lived only to face a new nightmare, the war against the Machines… That’s the…
Is it worth looking for a brand name?
Before 1975 or so, most people didn’t know what “generic” meant. All of a sudden, though, there was a feeling that you could “stick it to the man” by getting the same quality goods in a…
My take on the iOS icon controversy
Hey it could be worse, they could look like this. And now, the criticisms begin. After the shock of seeing that Apple can actually still innovate, the faithful have turned to analyzing the tiniest bit of…