Speaking of the coming decline of cell phones (as they quietly morph into the power of Google Glass), our cell phone is sometimes set on vibrate instead of ring and we miss calls. There’s a $130 fix for that. That may seem a little high, but these days there seems to be no limit in the cell phone category.
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In case you’ve been wondering about the coming of “Google Glass,” let us clear the view. Google Glass is the latest in eyewear. Some call it “Google on your face.” So far the only users are a group of beta testers willing to pay $1500 for the privilege. We’re tempted to call this new product “Google Glasses,” but unlike a pair of glasses, there’s no glass, only a tiny viewer (very tiny) attached to one side of the frame. A small receiver (very small) attaches to the glasses frame and projects a display onto a tiny (still very tiny) screen in front of one eye. It not only displays incoming data, you can ask questions and send messages. Google Glass [...]
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Flash drives are cheap these days — around $15 for16 gigabytes — which is a lot of storage. We tend to back up everything on them. But what if something goes wrong with that drive and it just doesn’t “flash” anymore, so to speak? We better have it backed up somewhere else. The obvious way to go is to drag and drop files from one drive to another using Windows Explorer, (“File Explorer” in Windows 8). Or you can upload the files to your private storage space on the Internet usingGoogle Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and any of several other services. But this is slow going if you have a lot of files to copy. A $212 hardware alternative is Startech’s [...]
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A new product still a bit down the road is a cell phone case that charges your phone by shaking or just walking around. This will be one of those cases where every little movement has a meaning all its own.
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We use a splitter to share one cable connection between two TVs. A new Gefen device lets you connect as many as 100 displays to one Ethernet cable. Who could possibly need a hundred displays? Think airport terminal. How about public school?
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In a recent column, we wondered why people buy 3D TVs when there’s hardly any programming for them. But a reader told us they have better pictures.
We looked into that a
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We put our small TV on a shelf above a treadmill– gotta crank out those miles — leaving us without a TV for comfortable watching. So we went on a quest for a new “smart TV” that wouldn’t make us feel dumb.
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Taking office warfare to new heights, the new “iStrike Shuttle” is an indoor helicopter controlled by your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It’s $130 from DreamCheeky.com.
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Coming soon to a (“hic”) drunk near you: a $20 gizmo that turns your smartphone into a breathalyzer.
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