When you’re trying to listen to something in an environment with little ambient noise, you need little in the way of noise cancellation. Even a common pair of earbuds may provide enough of a physical barrier for adequate noise isolation. But when you’re dealing with more than a little ambient noise, what you need is …
When you need extra storage, a Micro SD card can be incredibly convenient. It’s a ubiquitous format that’s used by phones, tablets, cameras, and dozens of similar small devices. People love them because they weight virtually nothing, they’re about as small as a thumbnail, and portable to match. But at the end of the day, …
When we were kids, our fathers never had to go to the gym. All of our portable electronics (and we use the term portable very hesitantly) were heavy enough to transform our dads into hulking, memory-documenting, car phone-wielding musclemen. If you were born any later than 1997, you’ll never understand the struggle of lugging around …
If you’re using a standalone camera instead of your smartphone, it’s probably because you want the kind of features that you still can’t find on phone-based cameras. You’re looking for things like a large mechanical zooming lens, better shots in low-light conditions, a rapid shutter speed, and so forth. And anyone doing outdoor photography will …
The first few generations of 1080p televisions were nothing short of expensive. Even a modestly sized 30” screen could cost nearly a thousand dollars. Over the next decade, resolutions got bigger, screens grew larger, and prices went down. It’s taken a long time for 1080p to stop being special, and start being standard. But unlike …