Optimizing Mobile Internet Access When Traveling

A few weeks ago, we were traveling on a road trip for our annual vacation, far from home and computers. We didn’t take laptops, but we had our iPhones. Perfect, I thought. My little computer-in-a-pocket. I’d be able to access the Internet and email and everything else with that handy device. Which was true. However, [...]

Think Outside the Computer: Touchscreens, HTML5, & Flash

Touchscreens are here to stay. Computers as we know them are gone already. Really. It’s time to fast-track the planning for delivering docs and content to these types of devices. Forget a laptop or netbook. I have a computer I can fit in a pocket. That would be my iPhone. I look at it as [...]

Might We Become Walking Computers?

What do an article in Wired magazine about attaching a sensor to your running shoe and uploading it via iPod for data analysis, a camping trip, an article about wearing video screens, a scientist husband, a discussion about wildlife parks, office work, and work by a W3C working group have in common? If you can [...]

Use of Flexible Screens in Documentation

Lately, I’ve come across two articles about flexible screens. One is for small touch screens, the other is about video. What’s particularly interesting about the video flexible screens is that the article in Technology Review states that there is a possibility that such screens could be “worn on wrists, and plastered on clothes.” Now imagine [...]