For all the reasons that CDs are greater than cassettes, tapes were arguably better for portable playing. They were self-contained, didn’t get scratched as easily, and made for smaller form factors in music players. Plus, cassettes were a heck of a l…
On "January 13, 1946":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy#Evolution_of_the_strip, Chester Gould gave Dick Tracy a two-way wrist radio and adolescent boys across the country became transfixed with the idea of miniature portable communication devic…
If you've ever dabbled in music performance, particularly electronic music, you're probably familiar with the thrill of creating responsive, interactive soundscapes in a live setting. It's an intoxicating and energizing experience that seems it would…
The term “hack” and “hacker” have been dirty words for as long as anyone can remember. Whether it’s "Julian Assange":http://motherboard.tv/2010/12/7/cheaters-whistleblowers-broken-mechanics-what-wikileaks-crackdowns-say-about-the-game-our-governments…
Okay, we've been here before. When you hand over your personal info to a large company in exchange for a service, we've all come to the agreement that you are assuming a certain degree of risk, right? But when that company happens to have a history o…
Pick up a CD, if you haven’t sold all of yours already. Ever wonder why the diameter is 4.7 inches? This was specified by Norio Ohga, who wanted to make sure that the entirety of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony—all 75 minutes worth—could fit on every stan…
Foxconn's workers, in general, don't dislike their jobs significantly more so than workers anywhere else, Frederik Balfour cheerily reports in a cover story in "Bloomberg Businessweek":http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_38/b4195058423479.htm…
