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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...

iPad Keynote Event 2013 Notes

Per usual, I’m posting a live copy of my notes here, so that you can quickly catch up on what you missed for today’s iPad/Mac Pro/Macbook Pro keynote event. It’s broadcasting live by the way, right here. You need Safari to watch. Apple starts with their amazingly thoughtful design video. I love that video so much. Cook talks about the iPhone’s crazy opening weekend, and...

Breaking: Apple Updates iMacs Ahead Of Expected iPad Event

Ahead of October’s iPad / Macbook Pro / Mac Pro event, Apple today quietly unveiled a new line of iMacs, finally sporting intel’s latest Haswell processors, and each coming stocked with 8 or more gigabytes of RAM. While cosmetically, the computers remain the design, this is definitely a powerful upgrade for the iMac. The upgraded RAM, new graphics card options, and upgraded processor make...