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Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.

A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.