Posts tagged with Hardware
Car Software as a Service
Tesla made a name for itself, not only by pushing for electric vehicles much harder than other manufacturers at the time, but upending the traditional processes around car ownership: bypassing the dealership model to sell directly to customers; no price…
Gaming's Next Frontier
Last month, a series of corporate maneuvers shook up the world of gaming. First, the mobile gaming pioneer Zynga announced that they were getting acquired by Take-Two Interactive, a major gaming publisher, for $17 billion. Then Microsoft dropped their announcement,…
Fitness Tracker Endgame
For the past 2 months or so, I've been trying out a new fitness tracker, the Oura ring. As the name suggests, it's a titanium ring embedded with a bunch of sensors and electronics, used to…
The Smart Home Sweet Spot
A couple years back, I was checking out the initial hardware products from a nascent startup called Wyze. Compared to other smart home manufacturers, Wyze’s unique business model is to sell reasonably sturdy hardware at close-to-manufacturing costs, and invest…
Impressions of the Remarkable 2 Tablet
A year or so ago, I transitioned some of my notetaking to simple pen and paper, on the idea that it's an inherently less distracting medium, and that writing stuff down by hand forces more focus and attention…
Buying into Network Attached Storage
Recently, I recycled a decade-old Mac Mini. It was my first personal Mac, after owning and building my own PCs for years. It was cheap but somewhat underpowered, and eventually it got too slow to use as an everyday computer;…
