ATSC 3.0 — Joining the Over-the-Air 4K/HDR Revolution

In 2020, more than 6 million U.S. households cancelled their pay TV package, bringing the total number of “cord-cutter” households to 31.2 million. Meanwhile, the latest generation of televisions boast a new technology, called ATSC 3.0, which has the potential to...

Wireless Entertainment: KEF LS50 Wireless II

For years, consumer electronics companies have been pursuing the holy grail of home entertainment, the ability to provide music and video without the encumbrances of wires or tethers. It’s still largely a dream, of course, as long as we have to connect gear to AC or...

How Voyeurgasm Is Handcuffing America’s Police State

This post is based on an excerpt from Michael Tchong’s book, Ubertrends. The slow and agonizing eight-minute-and-46-second murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer captured by a bystander’s video on May 25, 2020 is the latest manifestation on an...

Apple Watch

The “wearables” field was already on fire when Apple threw its hat into the ring in 2015. In classic Apple fashion, the company reinvented the category, from interface to Apple Pay, downright to the intricacies of attaching watchbands. When Apple designer Jony Ive...

Technivorm Moccamaster

Disclosure, I was Dutch-born although now I’m a dyed-in-the-wool American, but despite that inherent bias, I will give you my dos centavos of the Technivorm Moccamaster, a highly rated and accomplished coffee maker born in the Netherlands. When I first received the...