Child’s Play – Smart Toys Will Ease Us into the Great Smart World We can’t say we weren’t warned. Elon Musk (Tesla), famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and thousands of others have warned about the dangers …
Deadly Silence – Technology Should Be One Step Behind Personal Conversations After years of living in front of a keyboard, I’ve lost my ability to write in longhand. Well, not exactly lost the ability, just unable to decipher what I …
HDR, 4K – The Content Force is Ready for a Reawakening At times like this, it’s nice to have friends. You know, friends inside Dolby so you can view/hear the latest segment of the Star Wars franchise as it is …
You’re Good – Social Media is Customer Relations … Not Public Relations! Jack Nicholson said it best in A Few Good Men…“You can’t handle the truth!” We agree because we’re not one of the thousands of anointed social media PR …
The GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 was a classic confrontation that began in 2012 that we are now repeating 3 years later. Codenamed Tahiti, the then new AMD flagship Radeon HD 7970 was announced on December 22, 2011, and …
More Instruments – It’s Getting Harder to Justify Moving to New Devices Recently, I was talking with a friend who was struggling with a major purchase decision for her film workflow: Desktop iMac MacBook Pro Each had features she wanted/needed. …
The PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider is set to launch right after midnight tonight, and the closed beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division launches Jan 29 to 31. BTR is ready with Rise of the Tomb Raider …
Older Value – Boomer Market Getting More Active, More Interesting Most of us in the industry didn’t do much for New Year’s Eve because we try to save ourselves for Storage Visions (two days before) or CES (Consumer Electronics Show). …
Land Rush! – It’s Time to Civilize the IoT Wild West Recently, I compared notes with Rob Enderle (Enderle Group) about the “good ol’ days” of smallish summer CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and the recent behemoth that featured everything from …
Seen, Unseen – More Devices Just Means More, Not Better Ads I admit it. I love reading, watching, listening to ads. I also love good editorial – educational, informative, interesting editorial. That’s probably why I recently reread two books on …
Drones’ Good, Bad … Keep Your Eyes to the Skies as Drones Fly Out of Stores It’s estimated that 1M UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) or drones if you prefer were gifted this Christmas. All I can think of are my …