Through an announcement from the I-School at UC Berkeley, I was alerted to an essay in the online magazine Bidoun. The essay, by Binyavanga Wainaina, forces one to rethink and reconsider how technology might be truly transformative by placing the emphasis on how people actually live their lives, leveraging how information is already used and [...]

I got my Kindle at the beginning of Christmas week. The holidays gave me a chance to show it to a number of friends and relatives who don’t read ebooks, don’t know about ebooks, and have never tried reading on a screen. Several of them had heard about the Kindle and were primed to see [...]

Those of us who hope for effective e-reading hardware (and don’t believe the Kindle or Sony Reader deliver on that) have been looking forward to an OLED-rich future, as it seems to be the technology that combines the fast full-color bright screens of backlit TFT LCD displays with the low-power low-weight flexible-substrate possibilities of the [...]