Pocket Surfer 2OK, I sort of felt like I should have an honorable mention category for all the things I was going to post, and that I had drafts started back in my drafts blogs in 2019, but ultimately I ended up deleting, due mostly to a change of interests.  Still, here's a list of devices that didn't make the cut in my technology retrospective:1996-2013 Windows Handheld PCs (Wikipedia, YouTube)2000

OK, I lied - this will be the last 2018 post on April Fool's corporate jokes.  The last two things come from Ikea, and from Sony.   The Playstation Board game (would love to know the heuristics and game mechanics on that one!), and the Ikea (IoT?) Toilet and Laptop.

Back  when I was a teenager I was reading about this collaboration in the gaming magazines of the time (the few that I could afford to buy from the UK when I was living in Greece) and I could only imagine! Engadget did find one of these layout around the video is below.  Pretty cool to actually see one.  The rumors behind this (and the lack of internet to verify this info) also made

Some more April fool's 2016 funnies, this time a Ghostbusters one...

What the Dedham Lechmere looked like, not in my time though Hey there!  Remember Lechmere? Well, chances are that if you did not grow up in New England you probably don't know what the heck it is, but around here it seemed like a big deal. The chain of stores went out of business in 1997, and a BJ's wholesale store was erected in the former Lechmere location When I moved back to the

When I was younger I used to inhale Apple Keynotes.  I think part of it was Steve Job's presentation style that really drew me in.  I was also a big Apple fan (well, I still am), so I really wanted to know what products came out and get all the related specs and dirt as soon as possible  Early on this meant buying MacAddict, and heading to the Boston Public library to read the