Apparently by the 23d century, we’ll have returned to flipping flip phones. We know this because in Star Trek Beyond, the intrepid crew of the USS Enterprise employs communicators with lids that have to be flipped up to operate—subspace radio gear still must be pretty bulky in 2260.
But why don’t we have smart flip phones now, especially when smartphone makers are looking for any competitive edge they can find? Read my observations here.
Some of the UHD Blu-ray player suppliers who have dipped their toes into the new format pool are taking different approaches on selling a new packaged media format in a video landscape where fewer consumers will likely show much interest. Read all about them here.
A piece I wrote for Slickdeals, which you can read here.
For VR to go mainstream, there may need to be a non-helmet, group-sharing counterpart—wider TVs with paradigm-snapping viewing capabilities. Are there any on the horizon? Find out why or why not here.
A preview of the new Bose QuietControl 30 Bluetooth/active noise canceling in-ear phones, coming in September, for a site called Gadget Review, which you can read here.
Considering the popularity of UHD TVs and the dearth of 4K content, you’d think UHD TV buyers would be snapping up UHD BD decks and UHD Blu-ray titles.
Surprisingly, not so much. Found out what this means here.
GoPro, the inventor of and leading seller of action cams, recently announced what it called a “deep loss” for its first quarter 2016. It was GoPro’s second straight quarterly drop after several years of storybook hockey stick ascent to top of the camcorder selling stack.
Not that we want to kick a company when it’s down, but we are not surprised at GoPro’s recent struggles. Considering the faddishness of the camcorder business in the last decade-plus, the whole action cam phenomena seemed just like another short-lived mania.
It was 2 am on a spring night in 1944 — May 14, to be exact. And thanks to the good fortune of suffering from insomnia, a curious observation by John T. “Jack” Mullin led to the introduction of tape recording and, by extension, the entire home media business.
Read the rest of this story here at Vox – re/code.
Another Huffington Post post on a new Wi-Fi router called Portal that I can’t wait to try out, which you can read here.
