Palm may have wowed gadget geeks with its new Palm Pre phone but the company seems to be having a much tougher time convincing application developers to get on board. The Pre’s app store, known as the App Catalog, had just about 30 apps one week after the…
It’s 4:15 in the afternoon, and I’m standing in a conference room in my office. I’ve had more than a few beers. My normal day is a little less Don Draper, but on this particular afternoon I’m testing out the Fizzics, a quirky little gadget that promises to…
The Basic Engine is a tiny but intentionally limited computer platform designed to be like a late-1980s game console or home computer, but with some useful modern benefits. In effect, it’s like Pico-8, but hardware instead of a set of abstract and arbitrary design limitations on software. The…
The collection is hosted by the Internet Archive, with the website wholeearth.info operating as a landing page that serves as a hub and explainer for the various sections of the library. Each publication can be used page-by-page, or with pages arranged side-by-side like a book. Each issue can…