Category: Gadgets

  • How getting stuck in a Parisian elevator with a world famous war photographer last week prepared me for CES

    I was jarred by the familiar Apple chime from the table adjacent, as I sat down for lunch with my wife in the shadow of the Pantheon in Paris last week. Across the street, was the scene of the crime from two decades past: a place where I attended a single mind-numbing class in European…

  • Tech gifts not to miss: screens, screens everywhere!

    Ah, my monthly opportunity to use the latest gadgets to promote my graduate program (and Four Peaks TV program). I did two separate segments today with KING 5 (which also syndicates Four Peaks on NWCN every weekend): one for Evening Magazine, the other with my friend Margaret Larson for New Day Northwest. You can watch…

  • Sorry NBC, I’m watching the opening ceremonies live

    NBC’s Olympics coverage has been a decades-long exercise in frustration for me. I’ve never enjoyed their saccharine production values, and have always been annoyed by their tape delays. I know they’re trying much harder this year to make coverage available live online, but once again, NOT the opening ceremonies (to the overwhelming exasperation of the…

  • On cameras, resolution and hobbits

    I’m playing around with the very highly rated, perennially back-ordered Olympus OM-D EM-5 micro 4/3 camera, shooting photos of my kids today on a hike on Whidbey Island. It’s an amazing piece of equipment (and very small compared to an SLR), best known for its very fast auto-focus and excellent “5-axis” image stabilization system. This means…