2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the venerable Hard Disk Drive (HDD). While new computers increasingly turn to Solid State Disks (SSDs) for main storage, HDDs remain the champions of low-cost, high-capacity data storage. That’s a big reason why we… Read More ›
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All I want is a digital notepad
The Sony Digital Paper product above is $799 and by all accounts has not set the world alight, probably because of the price. The size of it (A4) probably does not help either. The WG-S20 from Sharp, above, makes a… Read More ›
Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.
I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account. At the moment, this… Read More ›
How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts
Stacy thought that her husband was off to a job interview followed by an appointment with his therapist. Instead, he drove the 22 miles from their home in Steubenville, Ohio, to the Mountaineer Casino, just outside New Cumberland, West Virginia…. Read More ›
The Analog Spaces In Digital Companies
Primo Orpilla, the co-founder of the architecture and design firm Studio O+A, has been designing offices for digital-technology companies for more than thirty years, basically since the start of the PC era. His clients have included Cisco and Microsoft, PayPal… Read More ›
Are all phones the same in 2016?
Mike Murphy posted the above photo on Twitter and what an exciting line-up of varied and enticing phone designs it is. At least there is a difference in specifications as shown by Quartz– Yes yes, I am being sarcastic, but… Read More ›
My son, the green bubble friend
My son’s iPhone 6 bent at the exact point that a lot of iPhone 6 phones bend and so we took it to Apple. It is 18 months old and Apple’s view was that they would give us a new… Read More ›
It’s easy to buy spectacles. Well, it should be.
Late last week, a Minionesque vending machine mysteriously appeared in a parking lot near Snap’s original offices in Venice, California. It was named Snapbot, and it was there to sell Specs, the company’s goofy new picture-taking sunglasses, for $130 a… Read More ›
How mirrors made us individual
Polished metal and obsidian mirrors have existed from ancient times, and because of this, historians have usually passed over the introduction of the glass mirror as if it was just another variation on an old theme. But the development of… Read More ›
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in
The title of this article is my favourite line from my favourite Leonard Cohen song, which just happens to be my favourite song. It sums up so many things for me and gained more relevance when my father passed 2… Read More ›
