Posts tagged with Hardware
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've usually been…
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. At the…
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 only in terms…
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 new…
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 to…
Nintendo Labo is a Gateway Toy
No one does video games for kids quite to the level of Nintendo. Their latest experiment, the Nintendo Labo kit, is a great take on blending the virtual and digital nature of video games with movements in the physical world.…
