Monthly Archive: November 2013

Microsoft Invented the Pebble smartwatch

What if I told you there’s a smartwatch on the market for $150 with a dozen digital watch faces, personalized news, traffic, weather, email, text messaging, and calendar? What if I told you that this watch was put on the market a decade ago, and built by Microsoft? As much as this sounds like the crowdfunded Pebble smart watch, which raised $10 million on...

What It’s Like To Wear Glass (the google kind)

I’ve always understood the concept of Google glass, but until I put them on this weekend, I couldn’t fathom paying $1500 for something that will be obsolete next year. I finally understand Glass, and I’m going to do my best to help you do the same.   What’s it like wearing Google Glass? From the outside it looks weird and bulky, but wearing Glass,...

Review: Oyster – the Netflix of books

Recently I reached out to a young company called Oyster, about demoing their new service. Their website boldly claims “Read unlimited books. Just $9.95 a month”, so being a reader, I was naturally excited about the prospects of not having to pay $10 a month to read a couple of books. Unfortunately Oyster faces the same flaw that every content-driven startup faces. They can’t...

Amazon Has a Huge Fire…Sale today [Deal Alert]

Yes. That was an arrested development reference (see vid below). Anyhow, Amazon has cut the price of the Kindle, Kindle Fire HD, and Kindle Fire HDX by 15% today only, in celebration of the FAA’s decision to allow portable electronic devices on planes. So, if you’ve been looking to pick up a great tablet at a good price, there’s no time like today. How...

The great panic: the world’s first computer virus (Video)

“The Only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – Franklin D. Roosevelt How do you respond when a seemingly safe and impenetrable system is penetrated? We all know now to be wary of internet data, and that everything on the connected web is vulnerable, but this fascinating clip from 1988 exemplifies this issue at its heart, when we had just realized the...