Sony Playstation Vita 3G+Wifi Unboxing (video)

It's official! The Sony Playstation Vita has launched to everyone in the USA and Europe. I got my pre-order 3G + Wifi version today. Let's take a look at what we get in the box!

BYOD: a failure waiting to happen...

Mid to late 2011, a new buzz word was running rampart in many corporate IT departments: BYOD (bring your own device).  Basically what this trend centers around is the idea that users would bring their own device be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop from home and be able to use it within their work's IT infrastructure and environment.  To me this feels like a trend we saw gain popularity but then pull an epic fail.  Keep on reading for my reasons on why BYOD is just that, a buzz word.

Tech, The Web, 2012

After a rather interesting begining to 2012, the blog is back up and online. I apologize for the downtime and lack of updates but hope to start posting more often.  Today I thought I'd post a few thoughts on some upcoming tech launches and events including the PS Vita and the iPad 3/2S/?

quickie: video on adding 3G modem to a Thinkpad Tablet

Here's a follow up video of me adding a Gobi 3000 pci-e card to my thinkpad tablet (see the blog post over here). Enjoy!

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modding: adding 3G to my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet

Its been about a week or so with my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet (TPT) and I must say that I am digging it.  The Pen/Stylus works pretty decent minus the lack of apps and Honeycomb is a nice upgrade from using Gingerbread on my previous Android tablet (Galaxy Tab).  However, one thing that I really missed on my ThinkPad Tablet when traveling was built-in 3G data.  I still believe that mobile internet on tablets is still the killer app.  Today, we'll take a look at the guts of my ThinkPad Tablet and how one can add a 3G to it.  Keep reading for the photos, notes and links!

quick look: Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet (Honeycomb) and Pen (pics)

I love Fedex; they make almost every week feel like Christmas week. Today I finally received my back-ordered Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet and Pen. This is my first Honeycomb tablet and I'm very excited to see how it compares to the iPad, Playbook and Gingerbread tablets I've used previously. Keep reading for the geek pr0n (including comparison pics next to an iPad 2 and Playbook).

design: my geek lair

Today's post is just a quick glimpse into this geek's / blogger's lair.  My setup is based on modern contemporary design combined with technology and the idea of sharing my technology with guests.  Keep on reading for the walk through pics and setup!

Random: rim, tablets and tech on the brain

Today's post is a 'my thoughts' blog on the current tech landscape.  Apologies for the uber long time between posts, the 'real' job got crazy busy.  So lets get to it, I'll discuss my thoughts on RIM, tablets and some random console thoughts.

thoughts on Nintendo... from a core gamer perspective

Well, today there won't be any pretty gadget pics or snaps.  This last week, I just sold my Nintendo 3DS and realized that at the moment I have ZERO interest in the Wii U.  Thus this post, my current thoughts on Nintendo from a core gamer viewpoint.

unboxing: LG G2x (my first dual core phone)

Well, this week has been quite the gadget week for me.  A few weeks back I purchased a used T-Mobile HTC G2 Android slider on eBay and after using for a few weeks decided that the slider format just wasn't for me (at least not when it comes to Android phones, Blackberry phones thats a whole different story).  Being the hardware geek that I am, I realized I wanted a phone that had the fastest CPU and possibly a dual core cpu.  Thus leading to my new purchase of an LG G2x Android phone.  Keep reading for the unboxing and photos.

unboxing: iCade for the iPad

Again, sorry about the lack of updates/posts my fellow readers. I finally just received my iCade iPad accessory from ThinkGeek.com that lets you use your iPad as an old arcade style cabinet.  Check out the unboxing photos!

geek experiment: Blackberry 9780 for 30 days

Well, it has been a while since my last post so I thought today I'd write out a little smartphone experiment I've been working on.  I pride myself on being in the 'know' on all relevant smartphone OS and in turn realized I was falling out of the Blackberry world and thought I'd better bring my skills up to now.  Keep reading for the my thoughts on using JUST my Blackberry Bold 9780 (T-Mobile) for 30 days.  I even added a Playbook to the mix to really shake things up. ;)

cord control: my cord management system

If your a geek, you probably have cord management issues. I know I do and finally have come up with a pretty decent solution.  Today's post will give an example of how I deal with cord management in my living room.

Unboxing: Blackberry Playbook (pics)

As a gadget freak, I don't discriminate against tablets even if they don't have any fruit logos or little green robots on them.  Here's a quick post of my unboxing shots of the new Blackberry Playbook (64GB). Some pics of unboxing were taken with a Blackberry 9780 so not as good as some taken with my S95.  More details and a review to come after a week of using. Enjoy!

Tablets: My three lessons to the industry on launching

2011 has really started to shape up as the official year of the 'other' tablets.  Last year (2010) we saw a limited release of Android tablets however they were running standard smartphone Android OS versions that were in turn tweaked for the tablet interface (ie Galaxy Tab running on Froyo 2.3 with Samsung's Touchwiz launcher/overlay, Nook tablet running 2.2/2.3 and a tablet skin).  However this year we saw the first of the real, Honeycomb (Android 3.x OS for Tablets) tablets and all the rest of the non Apple tablets.  Today, I plan to outline a few guidelines that I think Android tablet makers need to address before they even attempt to launch a tablet.