Nearly a year ago, Amazon unveiled a tower like speaker box that had intentions to become your personal home assistant. A sci-fi, Star Trek like, computer that you won’t be able to live without. Dubbed Amazon Echo, the built in Alexa personal assistant had the potential to take voice commands and produce spoken information in return. With hands-free communication for music, news, weather, statistics, questions and more it appeared to be a step in the right direction for the futuristic home voice assistant. Originally, Amazon offered a unique discount to their Amazon Prime subscribers for $99 whereas everybody else was…
Author: Justin Vendette
Every modern car since the beginning has been sold with a battery that provides power to an electrical starter to start the engine. Moreover, it provides additional power to the air conditioner, radio, lights, and any other electrical component. As with any battery, they lose power when in use and need to be recharged. On a car, an alternator is used to create an electrical current that is then sent back to the battery. Unfortunately, batteries do suffer the fate of losing their ability to hold power and will one day die, making your car unable to start, leaving you…
Bob Seger recorded the song “Old time rock and roll” and with the main lyrics being “I like that old time and rock and roll” it will be as current today as it was back in 1979. The first mainstream music distribution format was the success of the record, or more formally, the Gramophone record. By introducing a small spiral groove with side-to-side, or up and down variations into a shellac, or later vinyl disc, a record could be listened to by having a small needle travel in the groove and in return, output a sound for a speaker to…
With the beginning of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) starting a little while ago and with the latest Xbox One news, you may be enquiring on whether or not to take a venture into the console gaming universe. Or perhaps you already own an Xbox One, but are looking to get just a little more performance out of it. The number one cause in decrease of computing performance is heat. PCs and consoles will work to their maximum performance as long as they stay under their Tjunction limit. If you’re like me, you may place your Xbox One in a small…
The evolution of earbuds has brought the consumer some very interesting styles, shapes, and sounds. Some wrap around your ear, others place themselves into your ear cannel. With summer approaching us, some of us will be hitting the beaches to enjoy the fresh summer air and warmth of the sun. While sitting on the beach may be fun in its own, listening to your favorite tunes can make it that much better. Since it’s bound to be hot, wearing large bulky headphones isn’t a viable option and we certainly don’t want them to get sand on them, so seeking earbuds…
The year is 2015, yet we’re still using printers in our daily lives, but let’s face it, we need them for many uses, particularly their fax functionality. If printers and all-in-one devices are here to stay, the best we can do is innovate them to be some of the best printers available. Remove physical buttons, give them insane speeds, and offer a design that is stylish for the modern office. As a world leader in printers, HP has lived off the major success that their printers have brought over the years. They offer some of the best features, have great…
On this June 1st 2015 afternoon, Microsoft officially announced that Windows 10, the latest operating system of Microsoft, will be released to users starting July 29th. If you happen to be running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you’ll notice a brand new icon in your task bar, to the left of the clock. This icon will be a white Windows logo that symbolizes your Windows 10 upgrade. What makes Windows 10 upgrade different than other Windows operating systems? Well, this upgrade is completely free, provided you upgrade to it by July 28th 2016. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will…
Have you ever wanted to visit a store that sold illegal weapons and drugs? Of course you haven’t, because such a store would be highly illegal. That wasn’t the thought for 31-year-old San Francisco programmer, Ross Ulbricht. In his youth, he took it upon himself to develop a website that served as a dark web internet store, a store that featured nearly every illegal item you could think of; passports, IDs, drugs, weapons, and much more. Back in 2014, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation took action against the site and after months of planning and hacking, located the…
Logitech is known for some of the highest quality products on the market and their G gaming division is no different. For years, the company has brought some of the most different and best functioning products available on the market, a great example is Logitech’s trackball mouse. Used by millions of users and by some of the best professional gamers, Logitech G products are all around us and we tend to find that for the price, they last a lifetime. Their newest expansion to the G lineup brings along a new keyboard, one that is out of this word and…
You may recall my most recent Logitech review, a Logitech Harmony Ultimate Home smart remote control. Ever since my review of the product, not much has changed, it still offers the same great features of controlling your entire multimedia center. With the ability to control over 270,000 devices, Logitech has expanded this number by offering a free software update to their users, allowing them to control even more smart home products. Compatible with the Logitech Harmony Ultimate, Smart Control and Smart Keyboard, Harmony Hub-based products can capture the full potential that is found in the recently launched Harmony Home Hub.…