Category: Gadgets

Founder of the X-Prize Peter Diamandis has often discussed the principle of dematerialization: the movement away from stand-alone products into single integrated ones, and the movement away from owned products to shared ones.  Examples include the disappearance of camcorders, watches, cameras, and telephones into single portable devices, and the disappearance of CD, DVD, and book […]

In previous years we’ve done our research and previewed the iPhone 7 and iPhone X pre-launch.  This time we wanted to observe the initial market reaction to the newest iteration of Apple’s single most popular product, the smart phone used by 25% of all smart phone users worldwide.  The reviews are in, and this article […]

After a 2-year head start, Amazon’s Echo product finally has the deployed competitors of its rivals vying to make their way into our homes: the Google Home (last year) and the Apple HomePod (just a few months ago).  Despite the fact that Siri, invented by Apple, kickstarted the voice-activated assistant craze, it is Amazon’s first […]

The experts often have a hard time agreeing on anything. Be it the economy or who should have won an Oscar, there’s always contradiction in our fast-news society.  The impact of our generation’s rampant development of technology is no different. According to commentators, the geniuses tinkering away with their machines in Silicon Valley are either going […]

It was in 2014 that Apple and Google came out with smart watches, even though it was a kickstarter project called Pebble that had led the way 2 years before.  You may have seen some friends and colleagues sporting them, and even traditional watch manufacturers like Tag Hauer have their own versions now.  The question […]

Around this time one year ago we gave you some of the key design points that were anticipated in the (then) new iPhone 7.  We happened to be right about those points, not because we had some secret spies in China at Apple’s factories, but because so many people carefully watch this company and there […]