Author: GadgetGenie

Do You Need a Gaming PC? If you’re into video games, a gaming computer is a must. Mind-blowing performance, a wide range of gaming accessories, perfectly suited for individualized use: what’s not to like about gaming computers? Whether you’re a hardcore or casual gamer, the performance and customization options on these machines will elevate your…

Repairing vs. Replacing With the average smartphone exceeding $1k, the question of whether to repair or replace it is a significant one. After all, if your child chucks your phone across the room or your laptop screen goes black, it’s important to know your options.  Let’s start with some pros and cons. Pros and Cons…

Amazon Home Drones A drone that films your home… all of the time. Home run? Or a hackable nightmare? There are opinions on both sides. What stands uncontended is that Amazon is the first of many companies who will be amplifying their home technology lines.  The “why” of this is pretty straightforward: because people will…

Consumer vs. Commercial Drones Drones, drones everywhere. And not just the ones being flown by hobbyists in the park or used to deploy military weapons. Somewhere in the middle of those two uses, consumer and commercial drones serve a lot of valuable purposes. These devices range in technical capacity and price and are becoming more…

Drone On  New hobby? Essential service? Around for good? Yes. Drones are taking up a lot of roles. As precision and standards improve, drones can be used to do everything from capturing aerial footage for your family Christmas video to delivering emergency medical supplies. What drone brands are out there? How do different drone brands…

Apple’s Carbon Neutral Commitment Loki, Kylo Ren, Voldemort, polluters. In this day and age, one of the most villainous things a company can do is harm the environment. Because it alienates huge sectors of the population, businesses do environmental audits and advertise lofty goals to diminish carbon footprints.  It’s not just a PR move or…

Working From Home We’ve mastered the Zoom filter, the VPNs and the screen-shares. We know how to time our meetings around the kids’ schedules, to go on mute and to use remote file sharing platforms. Perhaps most importantly, we know how to get dressed for work from the waist up (sweatpants, anyone?). If you’re like…

Hate to break it to you: your mother’s maiden name and your high school graduation year aren’t going to cut it. In this day and age, passwords protect pretty much all of your vital information. And yet, password statistics from 2020 indicate that 53% of people are still relying on memory and using the same…

Neuralink: Man As The Machine? A chip that lets you stream music directly to your brain. Sounds like a sci-fi novel. In July of 2019, Elon Musk announced that this won’t be fiction for long.  Neuralink is Musk’s latest effort to accelerate human connectivity and pace-keeping with AI. In the same way your phone is…