Category: Gadgets

Don’t let the glossy brochures fool you; a printer with fifty different “smart” features is often just a collection of expensive points of failure. I spent thirty years in a…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom, and if there is one thing I learned, it’s that people love to sell you “magic” when all they are actually selling…

I was hunched over my workbench last Tuesday, the smell of flux and old solder hanging in the air, when I realized I’d been played. I had bought what looked…

I spent thirty years in a physics classroom trying to strip away the mystery from the universe, so it absolutely grates on me when tech companies wrap a simple piece…

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my jeweler’s loupe at the delicate escapement of a 1920s pocket watch, when I realized how much the tech industry…

I spent thirty-four years watching teenagers try to convince me that a shiny new textbook was better simply because the cover was glossier, and I see that same nonsense happening…

Stop looking at those shiny, glossy boxes in the electronics aisle and believing the marketing fluff about “gigabit speeds” and “next-gen coverage.” Most of those manufacturers want you to buy…

Stop letting those glossy marketing brochures bully you into buying a router with more antennas than a satellite array. I’ve spent thirty-four years watching people get mesmerized by “gigabit speeds”…

I spent three decades watching teenagers stare blankly at physics equations, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that people love to hide a lack of substance…

I spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching students try to focus on a chalkboard while a cheap, grainy camera projected a blurry mess onto the wall behind me. It…