Improbable Insights

The State of Mobile Hardware Meaning. Smartphones now outsell all other types of mobile devices. But they also all look the same. Eric Klein, David Bryant, and Loyd Case discuss the ramifications of today's mobile hardware. Why is battery life so bad? What do we lose in the race to ultimate thinness? Do we really need 10 CPU cores in our phones? Can the creativity of designers once again be unless, or are we forever stuck with what Eric likes to call the "slabphone"? This is part one of two. In part two, we'll look into the state of mobile software. Tools. Loyd waxes lyrical about the new high performance telephoto zoom for his OM-D EM-1. Eric talks about his photoframe... but it's no ordinary photo frame. All three of us talk rechargeable batteries and the chargers that make them work best. Fun. Loyd manages a board game meetup... for fun? Well, the meetups are fun! But what does it take to run a meetup? Are there other tools? What do you need in your venue to make a board game meetup successf