I’m Matt, and my occupation is best described as a research assistant/bioinformatics specialist, working in cancer research. I graduated years ago but I want to go back for a PhD in my specific area of interest. I have no formal education in computers, but I have been interested since the days of DOS and love to tinker. I was a Palm OS user for more than a decade, starting in Middle School, and I still keep my Palm TX handy as a PDA.

I use my eDGe to store and read large study documents and reference materials, as well as check my mail and perform medical calculations when I am working (it helps that my whole institute is blanketed in WiFi). It’s not only more convenient that lugging my laptop around, it also is part of my effort to combat the MASSIVE waste of paper in this industry. The eDGe now more or less replaces knee high stacks of printouts, as well as pen and pad for me entirely when I attend meetings. In my off time I use it to read epub and PDF books, read "homemade" epub "newspapers," I check out new titles digitally from my local library, and I watch movies and TV shows I record (capture card) and convert on my desktop PC.

Part of why I like the eDGe so much is that I like to do things my way with technology. So naturally I despise all things DRM, cellular-carrier meddling in devices, and pretty much most products and services coming from a certain “fruit company. Similarly, Amazon remotely removing a book from the Kindle by force last year pretty much sealed it for me that I would not get any product with that type of connection.