E-Gear Blogs: Audrey Gray

Show and Sell

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Seventeen months into the recession now, I give opinionated economists a lot of attention, watching for some prescience, some indicator that the global economic cycle will indeed roll 'round to the lifting part once again. And ...

3D, Without the Glasses

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Future anthropologists will have to be forgiven for concluding, based on photographic evidence, that sometime around the spring of '09, the human race ceased to frown or blink. The premium point-and-shoots making their debut in the next couple...

Cult Cams: The Point-and-Shoots Pros Choose

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST

It's the time of year when I tend to look to masters, studying their choices in hopes of giving the austere winter months in Philadelphia a little spark. Which chef has a can't-blow-it recipe for a Wednesday-night paella ? What's...

Haptics: I’m Feelin’ You

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

By now, your digital identity is likely to include three or more e-mail addresses, frequent “status” updates, more passwords than you can remember, and a foxy arms-length self-portrait. But have you yet considered, in the ongoing...

Toward a Peel-and-Stick Flatpanel

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT

My friend Leann, a keep-it-real techie, says she will mount a HDTV in her living room the day they come up with a “post-it approach.” No motorized or cantilevered mount installation for her. She wants to peel off a backing, press that...

Shoot to Thrill (PMA Picks)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

God, is passion humbling. I used to laugh at car and boat people, the way they’d go to “shows” (I’d have said nothing held in a convention center qualifies as entertainment), the way they’d go glassy-eyed over the...

On a Prototype High (Scenes from CES ‘08)

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

I’m about to tell you something which was probably meant to stay in Vegas. (Note to tech-biz executives: never drink with a reporter. Not only will we outlast you, we’ll infuse your drunken discourse with existential meaning.) After a...

If it ain’t fun, it ain’t progress.

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

I was climbing the stairs of my subway stop this morning thinking of what a great double-dutch rhyme you could create from the names of film directors Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Bohus Blahut . Not that jump rope classics like...

Flash for the action cam.

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

I saw him across a press-packed room, a young man with shoe-polish black hair and eyebrows, manning a small table with a small sign and a small camera, just one among dozens of vendors pitching products that night at the CES preview show in New...

For Love...and Money, While You’re At It

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

Something beautiful happened in the last 5 years, thanks to the proliferation of affordable electronic tools & toys: consumers became producers. Instead of lapping up four prime time sitcoms every weeknight, people began stealing time to...