Posts tagged with Hardware
Why It's Hard to Replicate the Kindle Experience
There are rumors that the entire Amazon Kindle lineup will be refreshed this year: more memory for AI, plus removable batteries to comply with EU regulation. Hey—more Kindle hardware is good news. Yet, the reading experience on Kindles has…
A Requiem for Video Game Discs
Etched in my core memory, from my teenage gaming years, is The Offspring's All I Want: It's the intro loop from the arcade game Crazy Taxi. The core game and its sequels haven't seen…
E-ink Didn't Die; It Got Interesting
I called it two years ago: E-ink was stuck. It was a niche display technology, without the same R&D or manufacturing volume as conventional LCDs, and therefore lagged in both price and quality. If the increasingly slow…
The Differentiation Premium
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps, poorly-planned home layouts,…
The Vision Pro, an Unintentional Trojan Horse for AR
We just passed the second anniversary of the Apple Vision Pro. At launch, it was—and is—an amazing piece of technology. I initially reacted with excitement to this new device category. But the Vision Pro also faced plenty of…
Year of the Linux Console, Steam Edition
A few weeks back, Valve—the company most famously behind the Steam platform for PC games—announced a trio of hardware devices slated for an early 2026 release. Adding to their already-excellent portable-gaming console, the Steam Deck, they&…
