Posts tagged with Hardware
Building a Mechanical Keyboard
I've geeked out on keyboards here, specifically the Kinesis Advantage line of ergonomic keyboards; I've also geeked out mechanical watches. So it's inevitable, preordained even, that I'll geek out on mechanical keyboards…
Five Years of VR Progress
A couple weeks ago, I received an OculusMeta Quest 2 VR headset, courtesy of the team at Plato with their first metaverse, virtual conference. The last time I messed around with VR was borrowing a friend's original, first-…
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…
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,…
