Adriana is the resident writer-slash-culture vulture who has written about everything from smartphones, tablets, apps, accessories, and small biz technology to cooking, fashion, pop culture, newsmakers and the arts. She has appeared on Fox Business News, and her work has been published in Time Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. All of this gives her a unique view on her passions, technology and modern lifestyle. You can find her where the two intersect, at TechnoBuffalo, or follow her on Twitter at @Adra_La
By Adriana Lee |
I recently tried snorkeling for the first time. I was on the Big Island of Hawaii, celebrating my husband’s birthday, when he stated he wanted to eye some fish in the clear, blue waters off the Kohala Coast. I was nervous, but agreed to his…
By Adriana Lee |
Is Google Glass hackable? Well, duh. Yes. Now, I can’t claim credit for that succinct brilliance. That’s pretty much a quote from one Google engineer’s tweet: Yes, Glass is hackable. Duh. goo.gl/HQpLC — Tim Bray (@timbray) April 26, 2013 No sooner was the developer model…
By Adriana Lee |
Some people long for small-town life — to live in a heartwarming place where everyone knows your name and your neighbors have your back. But these days, when everyone’s so connected, one could argue that the whole world is like one, well-connected community. At least…
By Adriana Lee |
Replacing a smartphone can be an expensive proposition. Many in the U.S. cost $200 subsidized, and $600 to $800 (or more) at full price. But the data on that handset? Well, that can be priceless — especially when you’re talking about irreplaceable images of loved…
By Adriana Lee |
Verizon Wireless announced this week that it’s cranking things up a few notches for its prepaid customers. In this case, “things” equals “data,” as current customers will now get unlimited voice and texting with 2 GB of data for $60 a month. Previously, the plan…
By Adriana Lee |
Inevitably, the price of Google Glass will drop. And when it does come down (like, way down), we’re bound to see it placed on small children and even pets. As it is, full-size caretakers love seeing what life is like from their littlest ones’ POV, so…
By Adriana Lee |
Did an iPhone actually interfere with an airplane’s navigation during flight? That’s the claim that went out over the Web yesterday, as Bloomberg reported on a small regional airliner whose compasses glitched-out at 9,000 feet. The incident, which occurred in May 2011, led pilots to…
By Adriana Lee |
Imagine what driverless cars could do for society. Distracted and drunk driving accidents could be a thing of the past. The elderly would have built-in chauffeurs to shuttle them to doctors appointments. And no one would ever have to slap or blast chill themselves late…
By Adriana Lee |
Google versus Apple is so over. It’s all about Google versus Microsoft now. Yes, I know that Google CEO Larry Page told I/O attendees that companies shouldn’t be pitted against each together in the press, but it’s sort of tough not to when those companies…
By Adriana Lee |
Who can’t appreciate a good burn? If you do, then you might delight in the opening comments of Daniel Graf, director of Google Maps for mobile, at the I/O conference earlier today. “As most of you probably heard, last December, we launched Google Maps on…
By Adriana Lee |
Google revealed a windfall of changes at the Google I/O conference. The modus operandi, stated repeatedly today, was to “get technology out of the way.” That’s an interesting point of view, considering Google is often the company of choice for the geek set. But this…
By Adriana Lee |
To think Google would ignore the major opportunity that music streaming presents would be foolish. In fact, pre-I/O rumors pretty much nailed the fact that the company was striking deals and developing its own music streaming service. At this point, everyone — from Apple and…
By Adriana Lee |
At Google I/O, the company has unveiled a new Android development environment today called Android Studio. Built off of the IntelliJ IDEA, the Eclipse replacement will feature things like multiple layout tools for a range of devices. Tweaks and app revisions to Android code show up in…
By Adriana Lee |
Portlandia’s Fred Armisen has to be one of the funniest people around today. Who didn’t snort-laugh when he played a tech reviewer showing off a particularly glitchy Google Glass on Saturday Night Live? (If you didn’t catch it, the video is embedded below.) The prop…
By Adriana Lee |
Global warming has been a hot-button controversy for years, but there’s a new app that could end the discussion once and for all. Novim, a research group from UC Santa Barbara, took on the daunting task of wrangling data from more than two centuries of research…
By Adriana Lee |
Cell phones are so over, says Newt Gingrich. No, not the devices, the name. ABC News reports that the former Speaker of the House is on a hunt for a new designation to describe these all-purpose devices we eat with, sleep with and even take…
By Adriana Lee |
Chances are, you’ve sung into a mirror gripping a hairbrush or lost yourself in your own air guitar virtuosity at some point. And why not? It’s easy to let the creativity flow in the comfort of your own house. And, it seems, that’s true no…
By Adriana Lee |
The news of Samsung’s successful 5G technology tests is positively droolworthy. According to the company, the data can travel at more than a GB per second over a distance of more than a mile. This sparks so many questions. How are such speeds possible? (Via…
By Adriana Lee |
The Senate began debating a new immigration reform measure recently, and it has privacy hounds up in arms. The legislation involves creating a national database of biometric information on every adult in the United States. What exactly do they mean by “biometric information”? Well, in…
By Adriana Lee |
As if there wasn’t enough to look forward to. Not only is Arrested Development heading this way in a couple of weeks, but now we’re looking at another brilliant piece of entertainment coming soon to the small screen. A new trailer for ABC’s Agents of…
By Adriana Lee |
Hooray! The wait to find out what happened to Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his developmentally arrested kin is almost over, thanks to Netflix. All the dysfunctional family fun we can handle will be hitting our screens and funny bones in just less than two…
By Adriana Lee |
When you think of bank robbers, ski-masked men seizing a bank with guns blazing might be the predominant mental picture. Oh, but that’s soooo over. Thieves no longer have to threaten tellers or ransack vaults to get their loot. But they do need tech expertise,…
By Adriana Lee |
Generally speaking, techsters don’t really like too many limitations. After all, there’s a reason why open-source, or freely available software code, has so many fans. Google and other companies have been advocates of an open Internet, doing their best to persuade closed nations and regimes…
By Adriana Lee |
Google has been taking a lot of heat over the stylistic design of Project Glass. Sure, it’s a bit geeky, but hey — who else other than geeks would spend over a thousand bucks to adopt an unproven tech so early? Still, the company is trying,…
