Tag: ipad

  • Is that a fridge in your pocket?  CES gee whiz

    Here’s a really compelling show-and-tell on how mobile technology is integrating into our home appliances.  Through your cellphone and this fridge, you can manage your groceries, use it as a remote bulletin board, operate your washer and dryer, and even stream video from your TV set.  We’re going to see the Android mobile OS in…

  • Check out my conversation with Margaret Larson about the latest and greatest apps (Alaska Airlines, GoGoKiddo, Google Currents) as well as some words of “wisdom” about the Kindle Fire and the new 5.3″ Samsung Galaxy Note (the one device to rule them all?).  We’ll be doing this on a monthly basis, so I look forward…

  • For years, I only knew of George Lucas’ 1977 cinematic sci-fi breakthrough as “Star Wars.”  Then I found out that it was part of a trilogy.  But wait, Lucas had a plan all along.  Believe it or not, this tale of an oppressed rag-tag alliance looking to overturn an overly orderly, hierarchal monopolistic political system…