Steve Tilley
Last Updated: April 15, 2011 12:00am
Spring to life
As leaves begin to reappear on trees and grass starts to push up through previously snow-sodden ground, another springtime phenomenon is blooming: the full-on, all-out tablet computing craze.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: April 8, 2011 12:00am
Framing it right
There is no sharper a double-edged sword than the one wielded by high-tech gadgetry.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: March 25, 2011 12:00am
The great update
You say you want a revolution. But will you settle for a moderate makeover?
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: March 25, 2011 12:00am
Free your iPad 2 from bulky cases
It’s a source of ongoing irony that Apple spends incredible amounts of time and energy designing devices that are slim, sleek and beautiful, and then we turn around and hide them inside bulky cases.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: March 18, 2011 12:00am
Getting in on the action
There are a lot of words you could use to describe the soldiers vs. aliens shoot-em-up Battle: Los Angeles.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: March 11, 2011 8:15am
Pure Google
There's something to be said for stripping away the fat and flash to get at the purest possible essence of a thing. Like organic whole foods versus processed, packaged junk.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: March 8, 2011 11:33am
Dyson vacuum put on a diet
Garbage on the floor. Broken glass in the carpet. Nasty-looking hairy stuff smooshed into the couch.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: February 25, 2011 12:00am
Best supporting objects
When we watch a really good movie - an Oscar-worthy movie, say - we can't help but empathize with the characters.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: February 18, 2011 12:00am
Man versus machine
Food and water supplies, check. Grenade launcher and electromagnetic pulse rifle, check. Guard dog that can detect the difference between human beings and cyborgs, check.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: February 11, 2011 2:00am
The great Valentine's Day gimmick
We like to say technology is sexy. Oooh, look at that sexy plasma TV! Yowza, that's a sexy tablet! Oh my goodness, is that a sleek, stylish and sexy smartphone in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me?
Jesse Michaels
Last Updated: February 4, 2011 10:53am
In charge
In these lean and green times, consumers are more aware that the gadgets they use on the go and around the house use a lot of electricity.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: January 28, 2011 12:00am
Penning a classic
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But there's always room for improvement.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: January 21, 2011 12:00am
Dimensions of scale
Forget the special effects extravaganzas that will be melting your eyeballs at the local multiplex this year.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: January 14, 2011 12:00am
Cool gadgets from CES 2011
The annual orgy of high-tech hotness that is the International Consumer Electronics Show has blown through Las Vegas for another year.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: January 7, 2011 12:00am
Quick brews
The first week back at work in the new year is always brutal. If your batteries are supposed to be recharged after time off, why does it feel more like they've been removed entirely?
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: December 31, 2010 12:00am
Working in a gadget wonderland
Like the late Charlton Heston with his rifles – may he rest in relative peace – you can have my gadgets when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: December 24, 2010 12:00am
Overstocked
All Dr. Evil wanted were sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: December 17, 2010 8:57am
More than just gimmicks
You may scoff. You may snark. But go on, admit it... on some level, you want this stuff.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: December 3, 2010 12:00am
Plugged in to presents
You know the drill, so let’s cut to chase: the holidays are imminent. Malls are getting more crowded by the day. You don’t know what to buy for the gadget-lovin’ folks on your list and you need help.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: November 26, 2010 12:00am
Pint-sized power
One of my favourite things to do when visiting Japan is to spend a day in Tokyo's famous Akihabara district.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: November 19, 2010 10:21am
Samsung's Galaxy Tab has versatility on its side
Apple CEO Steve Jobs probably has an Olympic-sized swimming pool filed with $1,000 bills just from the sales of the iPad alone.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: November 12, 2010 2:00am
Windows Phone 7 shows promise
If you’re going to be extraordinarily late to a party, you’d better be ready to make a dazzling entrance.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: November 5, 2010 8:12am
Bundles of fun
Kinect for Xbox 360, as its name suggests, is not a standalone unit.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: November 5, 2010 8:12am
Kinect may trick you into working out
This is a very difficult story to write.
Steve Tilley
Last Updated: October 29, 2010 2:00am
Sony Readers take it to the next level
Remember when books were made with... oh, what was that stuff called? Flat. Crinkly. Comes from dead trees. Oh yeah! Paper! Remember when books were made with paper?