Brian Dipert

Apple's newest handset, the iPhone 4S introduced earlier today, isn't the "iPhone 5" dramatic advancement that some were forecasting. There's no teardrop-shaped thinner form factor redesign, for example, or larger screen, or LTE 4G cellular data support (or WiMAX embrace, for that matter). The handset's improvements from the iPhone 4 predecessor are quite predictable, truth

Yesterday I mentioned that the HTC MyTouch Slide 4G's camera facilities included (among many other things) high dynamic range image capture capabilities. If you own an iPhone 4, you've got built-in HDR, too. But if you own an earlier-generation iOS cellular handset, or a latest-generation iPod touch or iOS-based tablet, you've historically been out of

I devoted an airline flight [irony intended: keep reading] earlier this week to catching up on a cache of to-be-read publications, specifically some back issues of National Geographic. One of the many articles that I enjoyed, the September 2011 issue cover story, was entitled "The Daring Dream of Personal Flight". Here's what I found to

Last week, José Alvarez of Xilinx (whose recently published tutorial video I hope many of you have already auditioned) emailed me a heads-up on an online article titled "Make Computers See with SimpleCV — The Open Source Framework for Vision". Authored by Anthony Oliver, Chief Technology Officer at Ingenuitas, the writeup definitely piqued my interest.