by Mark Mason | Jan 31, 2010 | Gadgets, Video
Back in January 2010, I was at the Niche Affiliate Marketing System (NAMS) seminar in Atlanta, and the event had the kind of energy that only happens when a room full of internet entrepreneurs get together in person. One memorable moment: Lynn Terry finally opened the...
by Mark Mason | Feb 3, 2008 | Gadgets
In early February 2008, I wrote a post asking a simple question: is anyone actually buying the Amazon Kindle? The device had launched just a couple of months earlier in November 2007, and despite Amazon's enthusiastic marketing, I had never actually seen one in the...
by Mark Mason | Jan 27, 2008 | Gadgets
I love gadgets, but I am an electrical engineer with years of experience playing with technology, so it takes a lot to impress me. In January 2008, Drobo impressed me. What Drobo Was Drobo was a “data robot” that offered fault-tolerant data storage for...
by Mark Mason | Jan 10, 2008 | Gadgets
In January 2008, I was looking at the new Motorola RAZR2 Luxury Edition cellphone and could not believe my eyes. The special edition RAZR2 had gone completely over the top with 18-karat and 24-karat gold-plated accents on a black metal finish. It had pin stripes on...
by Mark Mason | Jan 10, 2008 | Gadgets
During the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008, the Today Show featured a product that caught my attention: the GlowCap. It was a smart pill bottle cap made by a company called Vitality that could communicate wirelessly with the internet to report when it was...
by Mark Mason | Jan 7, 2008 | Gadgets
In January 2008, I was watching the Consumer Electronics Show coverage from Las Vegas and wishing I was there. CES was the annual tech spectacle where companies showed off their most impressive hardware, and that year Panasonic stole the show with the world's largest...