Author Archives: Adam Pichette

Netflix for Xbox

The advancements made in media delivery really do blow my mind. In the past decade, movies have become available to anyone anywhere, thanks to the Internet. Most convenient for me is the ability to stream movies over the internet onto my television through my Xbox 360 console. When I bought my Xbox 360 3 years…

Samsung Omnia

Among the most advanced technology in the 21st century is the smartphone. The advancement made in this piece of equipment has given consumers a powerful tool. Camera phones have also been tied to smartphones as users want a phone that can do everything. One such phone that brings the smartphone together with the camera phone…

Automobile Advancement

Someday I’m sure we will be living like the Jetsons, cars flying through the air and robots cooking and cleaning for us. It seems that we are still centuries away from that technology becoming available, but the automobile industry has made some very interesting advancements. Two that interest me particularly are the ability for cars…

GPS

Another great piece of technology available to us today is the global positioning system, or G.P.S. The GPS is a powerful tool that can really help anyone get where they’re going. Long gone are the days of pulling over on the side of the road to ask a gas attendant for directions, even though we…

Xbox 360

As a video game system, this is clearly an incredible piece of hardware. Having been a die-hard Sony customer for well over a decade, I wasn’t such a fan of the Xbox when microsoft first introduced it as competition to the Sony Playstation 2. Then came the next generation battle. Sony came out with the…

The New Age of Wireless

It’s amazing to me just how advanced wireless hardware has become in the last decade. It wasn’t long ago that we were filling our powerstrips with three pronged plugs that maxed out circuit breakers just to play solitaire. Now all you need is 2 plugs. One for your desktop and one for the monitor. None…

Smartphones

The latest technology craze seems to be surrounding the “smartphone.”. This is basically a mobile phone with many features one would expect on a computer. With anything from games to web browsing and even document management. The 2 major smartphones dominating the market today are the Blackberry and the IPhone. Blackberry, made by Research In…