Griffin’s Gadgets has been quiet for an unacceptably long period of time by blogging standards - over a month! I’ve nevertheless been busy on some creative projects, at least one of which will hopefully bear fruit in the coming months. In the meantime here’s a wrap of some of the stuff I’ve been writing in [...]
Philip Baker, who worked on Apple’s Newton PDA device back in the early 1990s has an interesting blog post about the iPhone. The hype surrounding the new device which will be released on June 29, is reminiscent of that which greeted the Newton, says Baker. The Newton was killed by poor handwriting recognition. Ironically, Baker [...]
by Peter Griffin | from the Herald on Sunday
Remember the little gadget that seemingly started the whole mobile computing craze, the Palm Pilot?
It came out in 1996, had a grayscale screen, a measly 128KB of memory and no wireless connections.
But it had Graffiti - a clever handwriting recognition system that was very easy to use. [...]
This release just arrived in my Inbox from Cisco. It was clear that Apple hadn’t nailed down a deal with Cisco when Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at MacWorld in San Francisco yesterday. But most people expected that he must have made some informal agreement with John Chambers that would be followed up with [...]
I’ve covered probably 60 per cent of the stands at CES and highlights include:
LG’s stand - its large LCDs are amazing and the LG Shine is a great evolution on the Chocolate. The Blu-ray, HD-DVD combo drive is great.
Microsoft - they’ve gone all out to impress and several things do - Home Server, bringing Xbox [...]