Shira Ovide

I’m hunting for people reusing tech gear in surprising ways. The stranger the better.

Are you reusing VR headsets for hermit crab shells?

Do you make collages from 1950s punched cards?

Do you harvest Xbox parts to power cars?

I made those up, but I'm ISO ingenuity.

The combined time of Apple's staged product events since 2016 is the equivalent of 9+ viewings of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 "Hamlet."

Google AI in search could be great. Can't wait to try it.

But it could be a Band-Aid on a structural problem: The internet is full of garbage.

And Google isn't great TODAY at sorting the treasure from the trash.

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

How will we feel about generative AI if the killer use case is churning out one zillion ads for Facebook and Amazon?

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Your periodic reminder that IDC estimates 22 million foldable phones will sell globally this year out of ~1.2 billion plus total phones.

These devices are currently not popular at all.