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Category Archives: Tech History
A/V In ’18: 5 Foundational Changes & 11 Newsmakers
Traditionally, A/V product categories don’t tend to be very newsworthy outside of the latest updated versions of existing products and technologies. But 2018 unusually saw five major foundational changes in audio and video. See the rest of this 2019 recap … Continue reading
Posted in headphones, IFA, music players/speakers, smart home, Tech History, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged 5G, 802.11ax, 8K, A/V, AR, ATSC 3.0, IMAX, IMAX Enhanced, LG, smart speakers, Sony, TCL, true wireless, VR, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 6
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Flashback 1998: A Compressed History of the Digital Music Player
A momentous occasion in the evolution of recorded music occurred 20 years ago when a California district court ruled to allow the sale of a curious new portable music player in the face of opposition from the Recording Industry Association … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, music players/speakers, Tech History
Tagged Apple, Diamond Multimedia, digital music, iPod, iTunes, Jukebox MP3, MP3, MusicMatch, Rio PMP300, RioPort, Sonic Blue, Sony
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The Precarious Cyber Security Regulatory Balancing Act
What to do about hacking and the misuse of major social media platforms by foreign actors in U.S. elections? Much of the sturm und drang over potential cyber security solutions boils down to one compound question: should the government step … Continue reading
Flashback 1948: Ampex Unveils First Magnetic Tape Recorder
Our modern AV world arguably all stems from a single product: the Ampex 200A, the first successful commercial magnetic audiotape recorder, which debuted 70 years ago this month. Read the rest of this post on Sound & Vision here.
Posted in Tech History
Tagged Adolph Hitler, Ampex, audio tape, Bing Crosby, Jack Mullin, Magnetophon, Ray Dolby, RCA, Sound & Vision, stereo, tape recording
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Hedy Lamarr Finally Gets Her Spread Spectrum Due in ‘Bombshell’
A review of a new documentary on Hedy Lamarr, movie star and inventor of frequency hopping, aka spread spectrum, the technology that makes all wireless communication possible.
Happy 161st Birthday, Nikola Tesla
My greetings to Nikola Tesla, with some additional museum and movie news, on Huffington Post.
My Original iPhone Reviews, 2007
Me and my still-working original iPhone from 2007 Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple’s iPhone going on sale. Back in June/July 2007, I waited online overnight at the Fifth Avenue Apple store in Manhattan for my original iPhone, then … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, Consumers Digest, DVICE, Laptop Magazine, Tech History
Tagged Apple, iPhone
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CES at 50: Lessons Still Not Learned
CES at 50: Lessons Still Not Learned
50th Anniversary of CES
The first CES took place June 25-28, 1967, and I wrote numerous (admittedly similar) pieces about it for: TWICE – CES Turns 50 Sound & Vision – CES at 50: From Humble Origins to Global Showcase Dealerscope – CES: The Summer … Continue reading
Posted in CES, Digital Technology Consulting, Huffington Post, Tech History, TWICE
Tagged Admiral, CES, Grateful Dead, Hitachi, Jack Wayman, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop Festival, Panasonic, Philco, Philco-Ford, RCA, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sharp, Sony, The Beatles, The Who, Toshiba, Wink Martindale, Zenith
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