20 years ago this month, a small company, formerly known as “Cadabra” renamed to “Amazon”, sold its first book, Douglas Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. This marked a huge turning point in how we buy, sell, consume, price out products, and […]
The Amazon Fire TV is one of the few Amazon hardware products I absolutely love. With it, I binged on four seasons of Suits (a great TV series..) in two weeks. In addition to being an incredible streaming media player with a voice search remote, it also plays games. You […]
The Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader in existence, or so we thought. Amazon’s new Kindle Voyage is its “most advanced e-reader ever.” The 6-inch display is now tack sharp with 300 pixels per inch and the glass screen is “micro-etched” to make glare nonexistent. Whereas the Kindle Paperwhite had […]
Forget everything you think you know about Smart TVs and the awful software that powers them. Samsung, LG, Sony — every major TV producer sells smart TVs. But they’re all really dumb; that is the software is slow, the interface are terrible, and the content selection limited. It’s terribly sad […]
Everybody’s favorite one-stop-shop online retail Amazon officially debuted its Fire Phone yesterday. The Fire OS-powered smartphone joins the company’s Kindle e-reader, Kindle Fire HD tablets and Fire TV set-top box. Fire Phone features a 4.7-inch IPS screen with a 1280 x 720 HD resolution, 2.2GHz quad-core processor, Adreno 330 graphics, […]
Spring season means camera upgrade season. As companies push out their new cameras, the old ones, which are plenty good get heavily discounted. Today’s camera steal is the Sony NEX-6. It has a DSLR-class APS-C image sensor, 16-megapixels, a bright OLED electronic viewfinder, super fast autofocus, a tiltable 3.0-inch screen […]
Amazon’s entering the living room in a big way. Competing with Roku, Apple TV and Google Chromecast, Amazon’s Fire TV is a one-stop hub to all of your favorite videos including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant video and more. You’ll also get access to music streaming apps including Pandora, iHeartRadio, […]
