Hasta La Gadget!

My brain tickles itself when something brand new gets invented, like a smartphone, and how different habits and customs form in each culture around that new smartphone and a brand new form of etiquette specific to each country is created all over the world. Maybe in some countries they call more than they text. Maybe in other cultures they use WhatsApp over SMS. Maybe it’s e-mail. Maybe they adapt to technology’s limitations. Maybe in some hellish place, phones are used openly in movie theaters.

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The Moto X is a device that will melt away into pure information. It’s capable of doing things without having to be asked. Or at least, that’s the promise. But the reality doesn’t quite get there.

One of the great mysteries of life, along with who framed Roger Rabbit and like, what’s included under the umbrella term of global warming, is why can’t we use our dang phones and other electronics on a freaking airplane. It’s as if some dimwit who was past his prime decades ago decided when cell phones became popular that electronics were devil tools that existed for the sole purpose to bring down planes. We all realized years ago that our electronics won’t do much to a plane. And yet no one has come up with a better explanation.

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Today, we’re getting our first real look at the G2, LG’s follow-up to its promising but a little self-hampering Optimus G. It’s a powerful little sucker, with a single, back-mounted button that controls, well, everything.

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The smartphone has made us all videographers. We’re constantly pointing our cameras at friends, family and cats. Well, mostly cats. The problem is that too many of us are shooting these videos in portrait mode. And it’s the most annoying …