One of my favorite designers and manufacturers of bags for travel and work is WaterField Designs in San Francisco, where all of ther products are produced. The company just announced an update to one its best-selling products, the Air Porter Carry-On, a personal item underseat… Read More »A Favorite Travel Bag Gets Even Better
If you’ve been putting off upgrading your smartphone or laptop, you will want to understand the impact on pricing due to a combination of recent issues — artificial intelligence, trade policy, and memory chip shortages — issues that are pushing many consumer tech product prices… Read More »Your Next Phone or Laptop Might Cost More
The electric vehicle market is currently undergoing a recalibration. While some consider this a crisis for the industry, if you’re in the market for an EV it might be the best thing that could have happened. The landscape for EVs today looks nothing like it… Read More »Why 2026 is the Year of EV Bargains
A friend contact me this week alerting me to a dealer selling the new Chevy Equinox, a $40K 300-mille range EV, for $25K, a huge discount of it’s list price. The car has generally received good reviews and seemed on the surface to be a… Read More »GM’s CarPlay Debacle
As Lexus owner who has agreed to participate in occasional surveys, I received one this week about a possible new automobile feature they are considering. The questionnaire began by asking me how often I park my car on the street, in my driveway, and in… Read More »Car theft and privacy
Combining your phone with your wallet is an idea that’s sparked thousands of products and hundreds of variations. The concept makes sense if you want to minimize what you carry each day. In fact, with the ability to add cards and a license to your… Read More »Phone Wallet Cases that Replace Your Wallet
Over the years, my wife and I accumulated a decent wine collection—nearly filling a 300-bottle capacity wine cabinet. What started as a modest hobby evolved into something more substantial. But with growth came chaos. Our first tracking system was very low tech: wine racks with… Read More »InVintory – a clever app for managing your wine
As I was walking through the San Diego Airport, returning from a short trip, my Briggs & RIley rolling cabin bag became wobbly. When I got home I found that one of the wheel’s rubber treads was starting to peel off. I later learned that… Read More »The Best Service in Travel Comes from your Luggage
I’m in the middle of moving my family plan from Verizon to T-Mobile, and Verizon has not made it easy. I hesitated for years. We have seven phones and two watches spread across two cities five hundred miles apart — exactly the kind of account… Read More »Switching Carriers Shouldn’t Be This Hard
The companies that once sold themselves as engines of freedom—open information, empowered individuals, helping the world—are quietly becoming something else entirely. I understand only too well; I moved to Silicon Valley in 1996 to join the many that wanted to make the world better by… Read More »Silicon Valley Has Chosen the Dark Side