Kindle Fire Review

Following last week’s slightly screenbreaking review of music, it feels right to continue the trend and review a “screen.” I recently purchased Amazon’s Kindle Fire. In trying to decide if I should purchase the tablet, I found a ton of cruelly unfair or obviously biased reviews. As a Screenfix writer, I’m not one to let that stand. I’ll try to answer a few of the questions that I asked when I was looking to buy.

Screenfix does not recommend holding your Kindle Fire like this EVER

Deciphering Eve 6's Return

Though it’s admittedly a stretch of our clever moniker, we here at ScreenFix do keep our eyes—or more appropriately our ears—on the world of music as well as film, television, and interactive entertainment.  This week, we’d like to bring your attention to the resurgence of an alternative rock band that is releasing their new album, “Speak in Code,” next Tuesday, April 24^th: Eve 6.

Radio Musings

I never used to listen to the radio. Not for any grand moral convictions about the state of radio or the music industry at large, I have just always managed to live in places with horrible reception. It’s a bit hard to get pumped up to clean some dishes to static.

Well now I am the proud owner of a 90 min commute home (on a good day) and car with a radio, we need to have a talk. I like you radio, I really do, you entertain me and have been the cause of quite a few impromptu dance parties in the car. Without you radio, I would have listened to the same iPod songs over and over again and would most likely have been murdered by my coworker and car co-captain, Scotty. Despite how this sounds, this is not going to be a giant rant about everything that is wrong with radio, more general observations of five things the radio has exposed me to.

Future Screens

When we think about life in the future and what it might be like, one of the first things we always bring up is how we will communicate, consume media, and generally interact with digital information. Whether it is a 3D holo-shark jumping out to scare Marty McFly or Neo jacking into the Matrix, the ultimate evolution of our display technology is frequently the starting point for a future world’s technological motif. In this past week we heard from Google about their secret Google[x] Glass Project and LG started to hype their paper-thin e-ink display. This got me thinking about how we might consume media in the future. Here is my list of six pieces of screen-tech that ScreenFix would like to see made real.