CES is forty-five years old
The first CES conference in New York City in 1967 attracted 17,500 dealers looking for the next CE products. Last year, just wobbling out of a recession the show had a surprising 126,641 visitors and ...
Your butterfly moment
Last week I gave a presentation at the Congress Of Future Engineering Software (COFES) in Tel Aviv on the Opportunities For Innovation In Design And Sustainability. I was the token hardware person at a conference ...
How many different ways can we watch TV?
Modern up-scale TVs have as many or more holes in them as a PC. A TV now offers the usual LRV RCA jacks, Composite jacks, S-video, an OTA and/or cable ready F connector, IR audio, ...
My screen is my computer
This is the year of the tablet, big and smaller, the e-reader, big and smaller, and the all-in-one desktop computer—all screen and no box. This is more than a packaging evolution, this is a usage ...
Benchmarking—it just ain’t fair
This editorial is dedicated to one of my heroes—Lewis Black. If you don’t who he is or what he does, start here. And then go to whatever city you have to in order to see ...
The more you get—the more you need
Watching SD after living with HD is like drinking Yellow Tail after having Pauillac Bordeaux. We adapt, it’s our design, and once we do we learn—and you can’t go back—why the hell would you want ...
I don’t want to look like a dork—and I’ve got work to do
I was brainstorming with some friends/clients about what a workstation would look like five years from now, and I said, “You’ll wear it.” You will. My model can be built now, well almost. But that’s ...
Tension at the inflection point
This week the world was introduced to the next, and possibly most significant, inflection point in the PC industry since dual-core—the embedding of graphics processors with the CPU. There has been an inevitable march of ...
The problem with crystal balls
Twice this past week I was confronted with soothsayers, magicians, and fortune tellers—you know—industry analysts and company guidance managers. One of the problems with having grown up in this industry (but, I’d like to point ...
The data’s there, why not use it?
Every day we (or at least I) read about an augmented reality (AR) application or installation somewhere in the world. Maybe I’m just sensitive to the topic since it fulfills one of my fantasies about ...
Leading edge, bleeding edge, or just edgy?
Siggraph is enigmatic, sphinx like, all knowing, all seeing, and unknowable. Is it a trade show, an academic conference, a big R&D lab, a screening room, a job fair, an artist’s colony, or a gathering ...
The art of testing and other esoteric sidelines
We test a lot of things here at JPR and at JPA before that. We’ve been testing stuff officially and unofficially for 30 some years—you’d think we’d know what we’re doing. Hell, we thought we ...