Tech Archive

In some ways, the smartwatch boom has come and gone. When these iconic wearables first hit the market, every new generation of products came with tons of added functionality. Today, innovation has slowed down a little bit. Vendors and manufacturers are starting to find their stride, producing simple upgrades to platforms that are already popular. But the tech industry never rests, and it was only …

Sure, Sony’s e-reader division might be dead. But the technology lives on in their digital paper system. Digital paper was designed for students who are sick of carrying around a binder full of messy notes, businessmen who want to keep their meeting minutes organized, and anyone else who is looking to upgrade our most basic form of technology. The DPT-RP1 is a tablet sized device …

“Make sure you drink 8 glasses of water per day!” We’ve all been told that before. Sometimes it was our mothers, other times our doctors. But it seems that no matter who it is giving us a friendly reminder, we just can’t seem to follow their advice. After all, it’s a pretty big grey area. Exactly how big should each glass be? And should we …

Ever worry that your phone line is tapped? Wonder if the government could be spying on your conversations? The NSA leaks made it pretty clear that there is a lot of data being discreetly collected, but the ability to eavesdrop is certainly not limited to large national agencies. When you think of somebody being “bugged”, it’s easy to imagine a James Bond style agent pulling …

The Amazon Echo is a pretty impressive little device. When we first tried it out for ourselves, we had one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” moments. Internally, there isn’t much there. A little computer, a microphone, and a speaker. But it’s the way these components are integrated that really make it a powerful system. All it takes is a simple utterance. “Echo”, …