Tokyo is arguably one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world. It has world-class public transport, is home to many of the world’s most innovative tech companies and Akihabara is arguably mecca for nerds. So why can’t I connect to the ‘net using my phone? More »
Last night, as geeks all over the country congregated in major cities, queuing up outside mobile phone stores in the hopes of buying the new iPhone 4, there was a hidden undercurrent of people acting like douchebags. And none of them were actually in a line. More »
I was reading through the latest issue of my old flame T3 magazine last night – it ‘s their Hot 100 Issue – and found that I profoundly disagreed with some of the products they had in their top 10. So rather than bottle it up, I thought I’d vent here on Giz, and try and see whether you agreed with me or not. More »
Wii MotionPlus will make the Wii better. Sony’s very impressive motion control demo will be better than Wii MotionPlus. But Microsoft stole E3 and may have already won the motion control wars with the announcement of Project Natal.
I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.
