My hunt for Sex Tech at CES 2015 paid off when I encountered Becca McCharen. With a pair of scissors tattooed on her shoulder and hands like a bunch of bananas, Becca banters with her crew of exquisites and eccentrics and it’s about as incongruous […]
These are tough times for Panasonic. Although the company’s nowhere near on its last legs, it is in deep trouble. Those of us who fell hard for the aesthetic and quality of Plasma TVs—and you’ll know I’m one of them if you read my column—were […]
A mouse is a mouse is a mouse, right? The Apple Mouse in my house is the same ol’ same ol’ thing it’s been for a decade. Time for a change? Well, worth a try. Unlike most everything else in electronics, computer mice seem to […]
If you’re into outdoor sports, you’re probably more familiar with Outdoor Tech than you know. If you’re not wearing or using something of theirs, you’re paying too much at Eddie Bauer or, worse, using a knockoff. Their cool merchandising catchphrase ‘Stuff You Probably Want®’ is […]
Now here’s a real wow of a product. Having caught a Barry Gibb concert last year, which featured a twenty-minute finale featuring the virtual return of Barry’s deceased brothers Robin, Maurice and Andy in an erstwhile Bee Gees reunion at Chicago’s United Center, the possibilities […]
Considering all the money being thrown around like confetti by the likes of BMW and Samsung, it’s still clear that all the flash-bang-wallop in the world, even if it’s sold hard by fantastic, tall German models who’ve been swimming in an Olympic pool of Channel […]
“If you build it, they will come!” It’s a cliché by now, but if you’re Elgato these truths are self-evident. Beautifully designed and engineered in Germany, this innovative American company out of San Francisco keeps it low profile and simple amidst the madness at the […]
One of the little booths at this year’s CES that left me mightily impressed was that of Silent Pockets, a company started in San Francisco in 2008 with a simple mission… To provide handsome and discreet cases meant to preserve privacy and security for every […]
I was introduced to TRUDY VINH by Daejha, an ex porn performer of my acquaintance. Tall and statuesque, Trudy is half German and half ethnic Chinese Vietnamese. A beautiful set of shiny, all-American teeth show off a beautiful mouth like a red garage. She’s pretty […]
It’s amazing how video cameras are simply getting smaller and smaller. It opens up a million worlds to those who own the imagination. One of the anonymous little ladies of the night I’ll be talking about for a while accompanied me in my cruise around the […]
Greetings from Las Vegas. The hottest thing in general seems to be the miniaturization of everything. Thousands of Corporations from mainland China have fantastic stuff, so here are some of the best and brightest so far. A.I.Q. Here for the first time out of Taipei, […]
DAY 1 Everybody arrives irritated. With an expected 180,000 conventioneers expected, it seems as I arrive five hours late at McCarran Airport that every one of them is arriving at the same time. Bound to be glitches and hassles, right? Yet with the U.S.’ East […]
If you’re like me, your days of board gaming are pretty much over. Christmas may be an exception if enough of the clan are gathered, but these days board games take up a lot of space in my sub-basement. At any rate, if and when […]
It’s all a little vague right now, but the glimmering curvy love object that is NVidia’s Tegra K1 promises a gaming future with ambitions way past Bioshock Initiative and updates of the Super Mario Brothers. This week at CES, the company offered a hands-on time […]
My youngest thinks it’s hilarious when I say old fart things like, “There was a time I remember before rumble came into gaming.” Yeah, I’m a barrel of giggles. But, really, it’s true… rumble effects changed gaming from something new and gimmicky like, say, the […]
