Recent Posts

From Korea, with love: My visit with Samsung and LG

The roaring whir of a helicopter’s blades chopping through the air. A quartet of smartphones with digital googly eyes. An in-car navigator that warns of speed traps. These made up some of the sights and sounds of a trip to Samsung and LG’s respective offices in and around Seoul, South Korea. Below are some of the smartphones I met and …

Read More »

Google Cardboard gets Street View update, dedicated Play Store page

Google Google Cardboard is Google’s dirt-cheap, increasingly popular virtual reality “headset.” Street View is Google Maps’ virtual tour of zillions of different locations. Light bulb! A new feature (actually, an Easter Egg, according to Google) in the Google Maps app turns Street View into Google Cardboard View, effectively letting you roam the streets of wherever in full VR mode. You’ll …

Read More »