I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a home body. I’d rather be home than anywhere else in the world. Sometimes I think that I would be perfectly happy as a hermit. Of course I’m not a hermit and I don’t keep myself barricaded in my house 24/7. I go to work every day, go [...]
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If you have a house with multiple TVs, you’re faced with providing content for each of them. With my cable company, I have to pay for extra lines, plus an extra charge for a cable box and remote control for each line. I’ll need to buy DVD players for each, too. With the the MyWirelessTV [...]
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With the playGo USB, you’ll be able to wirelessly send music from your PC or Mac to your powered speakers, stereo receiver, or even your headphones. The playGo USB transmitter plugs into your computer’s USB port, and it uses its own wireless protocol to send music to the receiver up to 75 feet away. It [...]
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Everyone occasionally wanders into a situation where they want or need to have an extra set of eyes watching their stuff. There are a number of ways to do this by setting up a webcam, but getting a webcam where you need it can be difficult, and not everyone has the patience or know-how to [...]
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A good headset makes an already incredibly useful device – the cellphone – even more useful by adding hands-free features. The new SoundID SIX Bluetooth headset has several interesting features that promise even more usefulness.
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There’s a lot of web-based multimedia content that you can display on your TV, but different services usually require different set-top boxes. While an individual box might be inexpensive, buying a collection of them gets really expensive. With the VStream Wireless USB PC to TV system from DIAMOND Multimedia, you can stream a variety of [...]
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Doesn’t everyone have a few USB Memory Sticks or a USB hard drive that they want to share their content with their family and friends? Personally, I have a 500GB USB hard drive and a couple of 8GB Memory Sticks that I and my children constantly move from computer to computer to share content. [...]
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Powerline Ethernet may be the least understood and used technology for networking. It’s a shame because it’s so easy to use and is more reliable than WiFi. The good news is that there are more vendors offering products in the space, Intellinet being the latest. Their Powerline AV500 Ethernet Adapter provides a true plug and [...]
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Do you check the local weather on your smartphone or computer before you leave for the day? Or maybe you turn on the TV to watch a meteorologist’s broadcast. Have you ever wondered why weather people called meteorologist’s? They don’t study meteors… Anyway, most of us like to know what it’s like outside so that [...]
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I have been a mouse guy my whole life. I have had a contentious lifelong relationship with the touchpad on my laptops and have always gravitated to the mouse. I tried several trackball devices over the years thinking that perhaps I was missing something. But the mouse always tugged at my heartstrings and pulled me [...]
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You’ve got a ton of mobile gear – tablet, smartphone, laptop – that’s supposed to unchain you from your desk. You should be able to do business anywhere you find yourself with all this mobile equipment, but there’s one small problem. You can’t do anything without an internet connection. Buying service plans for each and [...]
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The Pantech Breeze III and Persuit II phones are two low-end GSM phones available on the AT&T network for under $100 (currently and often just under $50 with rebate) for new customers with a 2 year term. While both offer decent (and different) functionality, they have significant limitations when compared to current and last generation [...]
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Would you like to extend the range of your wireless network? Do you have WiFi dead spots around your house? Do you have an Internet capable TV that only has an ethernet port and your computer is in another room? Maybe you don’t even have a WiFi network in your house and need a way to [...]
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Researchers have used rapid pulses of light to transmit information at speeds of over 500 megabytes per second at the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin. Dubbed Li-Fi (not to be confused with Light Fidelity) is this a viable competitor to conventional wifi ? “At the heart of this technology is a new generation of high-brightness [...]
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I live out in the ‘sticks’ of Brown County, Indiana. My only option for broadband has been satellite or a T1 line. I opted for the T1 line a few years ago. What happens though if you’re an Alaskan crab fisherman out in the middle of the ocean and need internet connectivity to check weather [...]
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For those long-time readers, you might remember my rant/question about Comcast charging too much for their multimedia services (i.e., HDTV, phone, and internet) last year. Well, I am finally getting around to cutting the cord. We will be keeping Comcast high speed internet but our household is giving up cable TV and switching home phone [...]
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Not all of us are lucky enough to have a home that’s wired for Ethernet, and for many of us who have to depend on wireless for network access within the home, there are places where our wireless signal just doesn’t quite reach. Wireless network extenders solve this problem, and are nothing new, but most [...]
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Samsung has recently released 23” and 27” SyncMaster displays as part of the Samsung Central Station series (which was first introduced in CES’11). The Central Station uses UWB wireless technology to connect to a laptop, like the Samsung Series 9 that comes with built-in UWB. If your laptop doesn’t have a built-in UWB support, you [...]
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