Tag: HYPE

Since long before Switched was even a twinkle in the Internet's eye, we've been making the annual January pilgrimage to Sin City to pay homage to the tech gods. And every year -- sometimes days, sometimes weeks, or sometimes months after the fact -- we realize that we done got played. We inevitably find that, at some point, amid the hustle and bustle, the lights and music and product pitches, ...

The hype machine is a cruel, cruel beast. It builds us up, only to let us down. For every piece of technology that's taken off, there's another handful that failed to live up to the buzz. To honor these fallen ideas, CNET UK has compiled a "Whatever Happened to..." list of the past's most remarkably unremarkable tech. Remember Sony's MiniDisc? Yes, the colorful plastic cartridge promised that ...

What it is: Those who still think a vacuum's a vacuum have yet to encounter Dyson. The funky-looking, English-engineered line of bag-less, suctioning masterpieces is a far cry from the clunkers lining the shelves of Bed, Bath & Beyond. (You'll even find several in modern art museums around the world.) The DC22 Motorhead is the newest addition to the line of Dyson canister models. It takes ...

Apple caused a bit of a stir among Macintosh users this week when it seemed to say users would be wise to install "multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent." But wait, aren't Macs supposed to be virus free and virus defeating right out of the box? It's the Windows users who have to be constantly vigilant against viruses, spyware, Trojan ...