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GADGET DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Gadget Ogling: Samsung Swings, Plus Live 360 Cameras and Smart Tuners

 April 7, 2017

Samsung is back with a new pair of flagship smartphones it desperately needs to be hits in the wake of previous handsets that were a touch too, erm, explodey. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ have dispensed with the physical home button and added an artificial intelligence assistant, screens that so very almost kill the bezel, and fingerprint sensors on th...

Gadget Ogling: Note-Taker Triumphs, Classic Nokia Returns, and Audio Thrills

March 14, 2017

There are countless occasions on which I have to transcribe speech. It's tedious, and until voice recognition truly can handle all manner of accents and verbal tics, it's a necessary evil. Hands up, everyone who thinks I wouldn't want a machine to take care of that for me. No one? Good. Titan Note r...

Gadget Ogling: Gaming's New Virtual Reality Frontier and Personal Cargo Robots

February 10, 2017

Regular readers will know that I've played games my entire life. I hold deep reverence for the care and attention that go into creating these experiences, and I've rarely met a game I didn't want to conquer. Yet I am nervous about virtual reality. I've tried it and found those disorientating worlds ...

Gadget Ogling: The CES Spectacular Edition

January 12, 2017

Trust Razer to come up with something completely ridiculous that I need in my life immediately. Project Ariana is a projector that incorporates Razer's full-spectrum lighting system, Chroma. It uses a wide-angle lens to project images, but it seems there's no lengthy setup process required here. Ar...

Gadget Ogling: Floating Speakers, Neckbrace Audio, and Charming Caffeine Fixes

January 6, 2017

LG features twice in this edition of the column with two very different but similarly strange speakers. The "Levitating Portable Speaker" has as descriptive and accurate a name as the "Small Transparent Speaker" from last month's edition of this column. You can call it "PJ9" if you prefer the duller...

Gadget Ogling: Heightened Hearing, Toasty Toes, and Glass Speakers

December 22, 2016

Bose's latest earbuds are designed to help you tune in to the specific sounds you want to hear from the world around you. Hearphones are a sort of blend of noise-cancelling earbuds and hearing aids. There are several presets in the app, with names like "focused conversation," "gym," "airplane" and...

Gadget Ogling: Rolling Records, Designing Lawns, and Placated Phones

December 13, 2016

RokBlok is a portable record player without a turntable. It's a block that dashes around the top of your records, and uses both its needle and built-in speaker to soundtrack your day. All you need to operate it are your records and a flat surface. If you'd like higher quality audio, you can connect ...

Gadget Ogling: Smarter Slumber and Pod-Free Coffee

December 1, 2016

In a previous column, I revealed how terrible a sleeper I am. My mattress is old, and there's a sizable dent on my side of the bed. It's probably time to find a new mattress, so perhaps it's time to consider one that connects with the rest of my home. Eight's smart mattress gives you a little more i...

Gadget Ogling: Big Bendy Screens, Chatterbox Robots, and TV in the Cloud

November 22, 2016

A little more than four months after moving to a new apartment, I'm at long last about to start setting up my office. Goodbye, Ikea dining table. Hello, fancy new desk. When I actually have my new setup, I'd like to have a monitor at long last to complement my laptop. AOC's latest is under serious c...

Gadget Ogling: Mac's Back, Nintendo Returns, and Huawei Goes to the Edge

November 5, 2016

Apple has unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro, giving the company's core laptop its first full refresh in a few years. The design has metal on all sides, along with a Force Touch trackpad double the size of previous versions. There's a customizable OLED touch strip above the keyboard that responds to ...

Gadget Ogling: Magnificent Mics, Intriguing E-Ink, and Compact Computers

October 26, 2016

I've tried dipping my toes into the world of podcasting with a friend this year. We haven't found it easy to get together to record, but for the two trial runs we've had, I bought a Blue Snowball mic. I'm very pleased with the sound quality, so I'm fairly certain I'd be happy to have Blue's latest m...

Gadget Ogling: Google Embraces a Hardware Future

October 12, 2016

The first smartphones Google has made by itself, Pixel and Pixel XL, are the first to bear Android 7.1 and the first to have the impressive Google Assistant built in. The Pixel has a 5-inch HD screen, while the Pixel XL offers a 5.5-inch QHD display. The phones have a quad-core processor and 4 GB of...

Gadget Ogling: Streaming Merrily, Snapping Happily, and Listening My Way

October 1, 2016

Roku has refreshed its lineup of media players with lower prices, so bringing streaming video to every screen in your home just got a little more accessible. At the lower end, the Roku Express costs $30 -- $20 lower than the Roku 1 and the most recent addition, the Streaming Stick. The Roku Express+...

Gadget Ogling: Driving Partner, Hydration Station, and Flying Grabbers

September 24, 2016

After a bad experience when I was first behind the wheel as a teenager, I'm only just now learning to drive, more than a decade later. My partner and I are going through the school together, and when asked about our dream vehicles in class, she replied that she'd love a self-driving RV. Her wish eve...

Gadget Ogling: Smart Desks, New-Wave Gaming, and Roaming Routers

September 7, 2016

After a long, laborious process and a lot of scraping paint splotches from the floor, the office space in my new apartment is ready for me to move into, and I will soon no longer need to write this column from my kitchen table. So, I'm in the market for a desk. With my nascent interest in standing ...
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