Not exact matches
Laws that would force
gadget -
makers to release repair manuals and tools are starting to win support, but meanwhile
consumers are taking a DIY approach
But
consumers are in for a rude awakening if technology
makers fail to find a way to shrink memory components enough to continue packing more of them into ever - tinier
gadgets.
Scientific American Previews the 2012
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) The venerable PC will try for a comeback against upstart tablet technology; automobile
makers will demonstrate even more ways to transform their vehicles into
gadgets on wheels; and content providers will talk up ways to further wed social media and television
Apple was recently found tracking the location of its iPhone users, but it doesn't appear to be the only
gadget maker consumers using its devices.
The difference between Shuttle and other PC
makers in this genre is that this company has realized the importance of coming out with an integrated
gadget that deals with the hardware as well as software aspirations or demands of the
consumers.
The iPad is the latest in the «i» series of
consumer electronic
gadgets after the iPhone and the iPod Touch and one that promises to take things to a new high, both for its users as well as its
maker Apple.
Google plans to use the event to take a more prominent role as a phone
maker, all round
consumer gadget brand, while taking greater control of Android.
Solar - connected
Gadgets: Companies that make solar power
consumer electronic will be all over the place, including: Voltaic Systems,
makers of solar - powered backpacks (we have 2 Voltaic backpacks among the GigaOM crew); Meraki Networks,
makers of solar - powered Wi - Fi gear; and Freeplay Energy, which makes solar - powered radios.
Even at the micro level we frustrate our innate contentment mechanism: the latest thing to catch my eye in this regard is a piece by James Surowiecki (of Wisdom of Crowds fame) in the New Yorker in which he points out that
gadget makers continue to increase the number of features on devices,
consumers continue to prefer
gadgets with more bells and whistles, but once buyers turn into users the greater «wealth» (my term) only makes them unhappy.