Ten Areas to Watch at CES 2017
With about a week to go, my attention is now solidly on CES 2017. Among other things, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the…
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Review – Brydge 9.7 iPad Keyboard
We love our tablets, and have reviewed models including early iPad wannabes, e-readers, and great Android models, but as convenient as tablets are for some tasks, many of us still…
Review – The Promise Technology Apollo Cloud NAS
Personal storage has been growing in popularity for years. At this point everyone is pretty much used to the idea of cloud storage via Google, or Dropbox, but online services…
Review – LG Stylo 2 Smartphone from Virgin Mobile
It’s not just your imagination; phones really are getting bigger these days. And while YouTube is certainly more fun to watch on a screen with more real estate, bigger phones…
Review – Upgrading to 10TB Seagate IronWolf 3.5-inch NAS Drives in a Seagate 4 Bay NAS Pro
It might be common sense that hard drives continually increase in size, speed, and reliability, but when to upgrade is a different sort of question when upgrading the drives in…
Review – Amazon’s Kindle Oasis: Does It Do the Job?
Professor and author Clayton Christensen‘s latest book, Competing Against Luck, talks about “jobs theory.” He postulates that we “hire” products and technologies to do specific jobs for us and that…
Review – CleverFiles’ Disk Drill Pro 3 for Mac OS
Recently, we had a major data crash, a 6TB RAID configured as a multi-disc mirror became corrupted, and since it was a mirror, it dutifully duplicated the corrupted data. To…
From “Exile on Main Street” to “Exit Through Gift Shop”: The Rolling Stones “Exhibitionism” Review
“Exhibitionism — The Rolling Stones,” the internationally touring show of Stones memorabilia, has just opened the U.S. leg of its itinerary in New York City. “Delivered by DHL,” staged at…
Review – Black+Decker SMARTECH 20V MAX Bluetooth Equipped Lawn Care and Power Tools
You might not think of Bluetooth and lawn care in the same breath, but if Black+Decker has their way, you will. Their new line of SMARTECH tools and lawn care…
Review – Etymotic ER4SR & ER4XR Hi-Fidelity Earphones
Etymotic is a company whose name holds a revered position in audio circles. The reason is that founder Mead Killion and his team pioneered the Hi-Fidelity earphone, with a unique…