Posts tagged with Hardware
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…
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…
