Apr
26
Too Cool Not to Own
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Being a boy-type and not a very young one, I’ve played with a lot of toys. If you use a digital camera, this one is just too cool (and useful) not to own.
The concept is simple — it’s a 2GB SD card for your camera that also knows how to communicate using Wi-Fi — so when you walk into your home after a day of clicking, the card will automatically securely upload your pictures to your computer and if you like it will also put the pictures on Flickr or your favorite photo sharing/social network.
Couldn’t be better from a productivity perspective, it eliminates an annoying and time-consuming aspect of taking digital pictures.
Technorati Tags: gadgets, digital camera, wifi
Apr
25
He drinks urine, of course.
Shown being demonstrated at the Kyota Airport, he can clean a urinal in 10 seconds and save 8 liters of water.
Want one for home? He weighs 220 lbs. and costs about $1000, but would look cute sitting next to your refrigerator.
Why an elephant? Why not? Probably the trunk metaphor.
Via Gizmodo
Apr
22
This 5.8 lb Everex gbook VA1500V laptop is priced at $399. It comes complete with a 15.4″ screen 1.5 GHZ processor, 512MB RAM, a 60GB hard disk, 802.11b/g wireless and a Linux-based distribution for an operating system and all the software that Linux makes available.
This a pretty cool laptop for the entrepreneur on a limited budget. Software has become a commodity why pay for Windows and Windows apps? There are no productivity apps that isn’t available either open source or online from Google or Zoho.
The Fremont, CA-based Everex calls themselves The Alternative PC Company. They have a nice line of reasonably-priced computers based on open source software.
We found this laptop as low as $349 being resold by newegg.com.
Apr
21
AmazonMP3, launched in September, is second to Apple’s iTunes Store in selling downloaded tracks of music, but the difference between number 1 and 2 is a huge one — Apple iTunes sales were 10x that of Amazon according to market research firm NPD.
Other interesting factoids are that the iTunes store has now beat out Walmart as the top music retailer.
The NPD study shows no evidence that Apple customers are leaving iTunes for the DRM-free environment of AmazonMP3. Not surprising really — most people are going to put the music on their iPod anyway so who cares about DRM, the only real concern is how easy is it to take the song and put it somewhere I can play it. DRM or not DRM is a theoretical and boring argument for most people. When they copy music, it’s to put it on an iPod.