Thoughts about design and technology.

A Google Image Search has sent me into the future of NEC technologies. Upon closer examination, the Internet Archive shows this area of the NEC Design Japanese website was originally launched in 2003 to show “Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.”
Some of the potential products described are pretty interesting. The mobile phone and the […]

Recently, people have been hearing that their HDTVs are going to become obselete because of HDMI. This article should clear things up a bit.
Visit this page for more info on HDMI along with links to some recent news articles.

Considering buying a High Definition Television? There are a few key factors that you should be aware of before making your decision. This should help simplify things. I not be mentioning any pricing since cost is starting to level off for all options. Showing the difference of a few hundred bucks will only make things […]

When it comes to designing for the web or any type of on-screen presentation, the design is based on the format you have to work with. This applies to any medium really, but has been more difficult for the computer since it’s always changing.
The internet is causing even more format changes as the website goes […]

Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show defines what kind of technology we should expect within the next 1-2 years. It’s been my fifth year at the show and I’ve gotten pretty good at checking out everything that I’m particularly interested in. Some of these have been the primary focus of the show these last few […]

Some may say that these last couple of years have been rather slow for technology improvements. I would disagree. For years new hardware for the desktop computer has been developed. Since computers have come to the desktop, the challenge was always to develop hardware powerful enough to keep up with the software we wanted to […]

This will start out as a rant of my recent movie-going incident, but will lead to something I’ve felt strongly about for a while now.
Last weekend, when going to see King Kong with my family and a couple of friends at the local Harkins theaters, our ‘movie experience’ was less than enjoyable when the sound […]