Posts tagged with Hardware
The Difficulty of Approaching Transportation from a Purely Technological Angle
Apple, after laying off and restructuring its secret self-driving car team, is still in the game, albeit sounding more as a partnership with existing car companies. Google spun out its own self-driving car initiative into Waymo, and is also looking…
The Demise of Lyve
Guess I called it. I just got the email last week that Lyve is shutting down. It started as a somewhat unique proposition around owning your own storage and interface around photos, which eventually had to be sold to a…
Building a PC in 2016
So I finally got all my parts to construct my PC after receiving the monitor a couple of weeks back. I’ve built PCs for upwards of 15 years now, and every time it’s been a little easier, a…
The Majesty of an Ultra-Wide Monitor
Recently, I decided to build a new gaming PC. The one that I have is a few years old, but I’ve kept its innards up-to-date with periodic, minor hardware upgrades. Modularity has been cool for a long time in…
Small Screens for Reading, Large Screens for Immersion
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is happening right now in Vegas, and I spent a few minutes today looking at all the latest hardware and gadgetry developments which are supposed to define consumer technology in 2016. There look to be…
The Speed of Mobile is Too Fast for the Internet of Things
I’ve started to get into smart connected devices lately. They’re these common household objects — everything from garage doors to kitchen appliances to light bulbs — made “smarter” with embedded hardware and software which talks wirelessly to phones or compatible…
