Geeking out on Keyboards, Part II
This is Part II of me talking about keyboards. ReadPart I for more context. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve converted to using the Kinesis Advantage on both my desks at...
Hardware
The New Withings Steel Watch
Chalk it up to bad purchase timing. A week after I decided to wear a watch and went with the Whitings Activité, they announce a new, cheaper watch in the Withings Activité Steel: basically the...
The Slightly Smart Feature Watch
I have to credit the Apple Watch. Even though I don’t think the current iterations of smartwatches make much sense—low battery life, weak apps, and mostly gaudy[1] and ugly designs—they have...
Geeking out on Keyboards, Part I
This post on keyboards had been sitting in my drafts folder for a month, but I never got around to finishing it. Here’s part 1, which should motivate me to write part 2. I’...
Kindle’s Chosen Specialization Against the Generalist Smartphone
The Kindle Paperwhite has no business releasing new hardware in 2015. It’s a stubbornly single-purpose device, one of the remaining few pieces of consumer electronics that hasn’t been completely consumed by the smartphone/...
Obsessing over Apple Watch Bands
What is it about Apple products that have people discussing the most mundane details? How much discussion do watch bands – though admittedly expensive – really warrant? The question is at best rhetorical. Apple is an absolute...