Posts tagged with Hardware
The Difference Between Prosumer and Professional
The new Mac Pro is a good reminder of the capabilities, and cost, of professional hardware. In a time when most of the attention in computing has been around miniaturization and portability, the average user—via a smartphone, iPad, or…
Face-Mapping for Custom Glasses
My wife is an optometrist. That means that my lenses prescriptions are always up-to-date, and we have a lot of vision-correcting hardware around the house[1]. While I've worn glasses since high school, they'…
Home Security at Hardware Cost
A couple of years ago, there was a wave of break-ins in our neighborhood[1]. Appropriately freaked out, I went out and impulse-purchased a Canary home security camera, just before we went out of town for a week.…
Tech Gadget Wearables as Jewelry
Cell phones—even starting with the big-and-bulky candy bar phones of yesteryear—started the process of miniaturizing electronics into ever-smaller and more portable form factors. The popularity of the smartphone took that to the next level, not…
Impressions of the New iPad Pro
As is the tradition with talking about tablets—or really, just iPads—as professional-grade productivity machines, I'm required by unspoken law to write it out on the iPad itself. Fortunately, my job is made easier with the…
Impressions of Virtual Reality in 2018
When both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets both launched in 2016, they were supposed to set a new standard for virtual reality: high-resolution displays, motion tracking both the headset and controllers, and software finally good enough…
