Geekfoolery

Mr. Alex has been traveling on business for the last two weeks, and there’s nothing like business travel to test the limits of one’s always-on wireless connectedness to the virtual office and online network of cow-orkers.
I had with me on my two week trip:
An IBM laptop (work).
A Mac laptop (personal).
A Sprint wireless broadband card for […]

*headline stolen shamelessly from the Philip K. Dick story.

Pleo is toy dinosaur made by a company called Ugobe that is expected to hit store shelves sometime next year. I’m sure if the marketing people had their way, it would be in stores in time for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, with visions of Cabbage […]

First, despite Microsoft’s claim to have sold more than a million Zunes, a figure that’s worth about 10% of the hard-drive based player market, I have never, ever seen a single person using one in public. I began Zunewatch on Jan 1st to see if it would be worthwhile for me to get a Zune […]

Today’s Geekfoolery post comes from a good friend of mine, Ed Flores who writes his own blog at Scorpion Sandwich. Ed’s been a lot of thing in his life, but all we need to know right now is that he knows a good gadget when he sees one. Here’s his take on The Prybaby.

I once […]

During the full moon this Saturday, I was reminded of how from time to time, the gadget gremlins conspire against us.
Back in November, 1969, Apollo 12 landed on the moon, the second time mankind had made the giant leap. The first time around, four months earlier, the whole world watched as Neil Armstrong hopped around […]

(Apologies to Aretha Franklin. And apologies to my high school English teacher who would insisted that it’s “Who’s Zune-ing whom,” but then, he would have preferred to listen to “You aren’t anything but a hound dog” and “I can’t get any satisfaction,” so what can you do. But I digress.)
Zunewatch 2007 update, no Zunes sighted, […]