Books I have co-authored

Amazing ways to interface with your computer

Eventually the mouse and keyboard will be replaced as our primary way of interfacing with the digital world by something else. Voice input, and pen/finger based touch screens are the most well-known candidates but there are several other more advanced technologies being developed.

One example is I-Tech’s Virtual Keyboard (introduced in 2005) with a red laser [...]

The Google Phone coming out in January?

Google has the Midas touch and never fails – right? What if they made a Google Phone (gPhone?) and disrupted the global phone market? They already have a smartphone OS and aggressive plans for the market.

Rumors about a Google Phone have been floating around for some time but gained momentum yesterday with tweets claiming that [...]

Flawed design in Sony Ericsson’s Satio camera phone

Satio smartphone with camera

All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves [...]

Do customers really want super glossy PC screens?

Despite decades of talk about being “in tune with customers” and huge budgets for market research I wonder how well the major corporations in the tech sector really understand their customers.

During the last two years, the leading vendors of PC and Mac have decided that users only want glossy screens. They have obviously missed that [...]