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  • INSTANT Gallery

    Photographer Alan Gastelum remembers feeling a sense of frustration with the consuming power of social media. Instead of shying away from it, he began to search for a way to create further meaning from the interaction. He wanted to showcase… Read More ›

  • Tricking voters on Twitter

    No one can vote via text message. No one can vote via Twitter. That, however, hasn’t stopped anti-Clinton Twitter users from trying to spread misinformation to Clinton supporters with well-crafted ads that look like they come straight from Hillary For… Read More ›

  • The Slate

    With the Slate, you can use any kind of paper you want—rice paper, Bristol, kraft, a sheet of newspaper… You draw with your own pencils on real paper and your drawings instantly come alive on the screen… More here. It’s… Read More ›

  • SPUD

    SPUD is the only high resolution, 24-inch display with the awesome benefit of ultra-portability. It collapses just like a ruggedized umbrella to the size and weight of a paperback book – making it ideal for anyone on the go. When… Read More ›

  • WALTR 2: send anything to your iPhone

    The premise of WALTR 2 is quite superb and could mean that many people could say goodbye to iTunes forever. Must admit, however, that I can’t remember the last time I used it. WALTR 2 goes beyond iOS devices. It… Read More ›

  • NES Classic Edition

    Nintendo seems to have stumbled onto the perfect holiday gift with its NES Classic Edition. The diminutive plastic box packs 30 classic games into a pint-sized recreation of the original NES. It’s USB-powered and spits out video via HDMI, but… Read More ›

  • Phil Schiller talks computers, touchscreens and voice

    The new Pros have no SD card slot for a camera memory card. Why not? Because of a couple of things. One, it’s a bit of a cumbersome slot. You’ve got this thing sticking halfway out. Then there are very… Read More ›

  • iCloud woes

    iCloud is the backbone of a number of Apple services, some more problematic than others. At a surface level, iCloud just handles all of your iPhone backups and syncs files between apps. My main problems have come from three different… Read More ›

  • We need a word for this…

    Such a good question. I have a few emails like this that I really must respond to. tweeted by Michael Hendrix.

  • The Lifeclock One

    It’s a great looking watch, but check out the video here and you will see that it is HUGE! In John Carpenter’s famous masterpiece, Escape from New York, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), has 24 hours to rescue the President from… Read More ›