The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
An underappreciated amount of industrial design goes into every product you buy. Every part, every curve has a lot of thought put into it. However, that doesn’t mean that all designs are necessarily good. Some are just downright awful, and fail to click in the marketplace. However, occasionally a bad design will creep its way…
We’re back with some weekend throwback. The series where we revisit some vintage, well aged (like fine milk) articles from the site’s history. Today’s article comes to us from the bygone days of June 2007, where I ranted about cell phone culture, texting and driving, theatre talkers, pricey plans, and annoying teens. Ah, the good…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately (good for you, can I join you?), you’ve probably noticed that computer components have gotten expensive. Like, really, really expensive, due to the ongoing chip shortage. Which is certainly a bit annoying if you’re a computer hobbyist or gamer. Though that’s arguably its the least of our…
In November 2007, Amazon put out their very first Kindle eReader. Its ludicrously chunky by modern standards. It also wasn’t it the first of its kind. However, the Kindle was the first to establish a convenient ecosystem surrounding eBooks. It was to digital reading what the iPod was to digital music. At the time, many…
The iPod may possibly be Apple’s greatest product of all time. It perfectly embodied their philosophy of taking something that already exists, and refining it down into an artform. Minimalistic, easy to use, yet surprisingly powerful. Of course personal stereos, and indeed MP3 players, had been around a while by the time the first iPod…
I’m not a huge fan of those pod coffee makers. A couple years ago, I wrote about how the Keurig may possibly be the dumbest high-tech kitchen gadget ever created. Leave it to the good folks at Nestle to up the ante and create something that makes even less sense. So, over the holidays, a…
As a civilized person, I drink tea every morning. Made in my small single cup pot with water heated by a simple electric kettle. This is the tradition that built the greatest empires history has ever known. Yet for some reason, there are people, crazy people, who’d rather start their day drinking sludge made from…
4K Ultra-HD televisions have been with us for a little while now. It’s just sort of become the default resolution for most TVs being sold today. Now we’re already moving on to 8K sets. Yet, there’s still relatively little 4K content available for consumers. It’s mostly limited to premium streaming services. Currently, very few conventional…
To the shock and panic of millions of netizens, YouTube went down earlier today. No more cats in boxes or celebrity vlogs for the masses. It also lead to a spike in searches for alternatives to the popular video site. You might be surprised, but they do exist, and some of them are actually halfway…
Single serve coffee machines are the kitchen gadget of choice for lazy java aficionados everywhere. You get a steaming hot beverage in just seconds, and there’s literally hundreds of different varieties to choose from. They’re also the stupidest kitchen gadget you can find outside of a late night infomercial. They make terrible coffee, and ever…