Costing $900 ($1,350 today), the Sony Glasstron was a head-mounted display which promised to replicate “the viewing experience of a 52-inch TV at 6.5 feet.” Inside were twin 0.55-inch LCD screens, each one boasting a resolution of 180,000 pixels. Slap… Read More ›
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Design is about the juggling of various often competing constraints
“Once upon a time, Apple could do little wrong.” I wonder when that was? Having just read about the design and launch of the Mac – not enough memory, no cursor keys, etc – it wasn’t then. Or how about… Read More ›
How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
After he finished watching the video, Brown called the police chief, Craig Kingsbury, to get more information about the case. Kingsbury said that he couldn’t discuss it and that the police reports were sealed because minors were involved. Brown made… Read More ›
I can wear an Apple Watch… for about 5 minutes
I keep putting my Apple Watch back on my wrist for various freelance projects and am trying to live with it for longer than a few minutes, but I am failing every time. It is obviously an impressive piece of… Read More ›
iPhone 8 “Are you insane?!?” and The Red Dot
I have been flip flopping around the iPhone 8 for a little while and after spending some time with it, not much was needed, I came to the conclusion that 99% of people should avoid it. While inspecting the iPhone… Read More ›
Children under fire
She faced forward and punched the gas, pushing the speedometer past 100 mph. Hill veered off an exit, stopped and leapt out of the car. She rushed to the other side and unbuckled her son, then wrapped him in both… Read More ›
farewell 32-bit iOS apps…
Well, we knew this day was coming… with the release of iOS11, Apple is dropping support for 32-bit apps. I can’t blame them, entirely – eventually a company should probably decide to drop the technical weight of supporting everything forever…. Read More ›
Logically, the iPhone 8 is better than the iPhone X
If I ignore the cost of the iPhone X and the silly talk about how it is soooooooo expensive, I come to the logical conclusion that the iPhone 8 would be a better phone for me. When people talk about… Read More ›
It… Just… Works…
I have witnessed a lot of snark and humour at Apple’s expense over the past week since the iPhone X was announced and I wonder where it all comes from at times. I am not wondering because of what is… Read More ›
Apple’s Presentation
Unfortunately for Apple, most of what was shown had been leaked or accurately rumoured. That seems to get worse as time goes on. Of course this time around, someone leaked the release version of iOS 11. watchOS 4 has some… Read More ›
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