TechpadinTech News I Paid Ten Bucks for Super Mario Run and I Dont Regret It (Mostly) Super Mario Run landed on iOS Thursday and the internet immediately lost its mind over the $9.99 price tag. Here's why I paid it anyway, and the one design decision that actually bugs me. December 17, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Go and My Deep Distrust of "Unexpected Item in Bagging Area" Amazon's new checkout-free store looks incredible in the promo video, but after years of fighting self-checkout machines at my grocery store, Im not ready to believe the demo just yet. December 10, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Go and All Those Cameras Watching You Shop Amazon's cashier-free Go store looks slick in the promo video, but between the self-checkout machines Ive already hated for years and the jobs its quietly replacing, Im not sold yet. December 9, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Good Luck Finding an NES Classic This Week Eleven days after launch, the $59.99 NES Classic Edition is nowhere to be found in stores and going for triple the price on eBay. A few thoughts on nostalgia, scarcity, and bad planning. November 22, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Just Bought My Headphones Samsung's $8 billion deal to buy Harman (AKG, JBL, Harman Kardon) has me side-eyeing my own headphones, and thinking about what a phone company wants with a car-audio business. November 21, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The OnePlus 3T and My Losing Battle Against Upgrade Itch OnePlus announced the 3T today, and instead of getting excited I mostly just thought about how weird phone naming conventions have gotten. November 14, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Home Ships Today and My Kitchen Already Has an Assistant Google Home hits store shelves today at $129, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out why I'd want a second talking speaker when my Echo Dot already runs my kitchen timers. November 4, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Twitter Killed Vine and Nobody Even Seems Surprised Twitter announced this week it's shutting down the Vine app as part of layoffs. A personal eulogy for six-second videos and the weird, specific creativity they produced. October 28, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Surface Studio Is Gorgeous and I Still Can't Justify It Microsoft's new all-in-one desktop looks incredible in the demo videos, but the starting price says a lot about who it's actually for. October 26, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Weekend With PlayStation VR A weekend spent with the newly launched PlayStation VR headset, including one very real bout of motion sickness and a coffee table that had to live in the kitchen for three days. October 17, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Note 7 Is Dead, Official This Time Samsung made the Note 7's death official today, and the Southwest Airlines evacuation over a smoking replacement unit is the detail that actually made this recall feel real. October 11, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Home and the Microphone I Already Own Google's Tuesday event gave us the Pixel, but the thing I can't stop thinking about is Home, the $129 speaker, and what four months with an Echo Dot has taught me about always-on microphones. October 9, 2016·3 min read
