My old and faithful Minolta DimageX died about two weeks ago, her digital soul leaving this material world and starting its journey to camera heaven (or landfills I think they’re called…). You will be missed, although not for long. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘gadgets’
Kodak V1253
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Watch lighter
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
I’m not really a smoker, but here is the one gift that can convert me in a flash: a handsome water resistant watch lighter. Now you know what I want for my birthday (b/way and 28th has them… I snapped the pic while waiting in line for my daily iced coffee).
Not a collectors item, but damn it’s close.
iLove
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007I followed Wired’s liveblog coverage of Steve Job’s presentation all day today…
New iPod with touchscreen = Love. Just gotta wait for it to have real storage, another year perhaps?
Free your phone
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
A few months ago, before Steve Jobs told us about the iPhone, an open source Linux-based free-from-your-lousy-provider phone was shown to the world. Openmoko, a Taiwan based company released on July 9th the developer’s version of their open source phone. The mass-market version (read: the rest of us idiots who don’t know how to program Linux, or anything else for that matter version) will be out in October.
The device itself isn’t as sexy as an iPhone, I agree, but it comes unlocked and its functionality promises to go beyond it.
Say what?
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The White House declined to say whether the CIA currently had a detention and interrogation programme.
But it said that if it did, the agency had to adhere to the guidelines.
Read the BBC news article on Bush’s ‘banning’ of torture for prisoners here.
$100 laptop to enter mass production
Monday, July 23rd, 20075 years after the proposal, the laptop for the masses will enter mass production.
“The laptop needs an order of magnitude less power than a typical laptop,” said Professor Bender. “That means you can power it by solar or human power.” Will we see in a few years a whole new class of bicycle-power apparatuses developed around the re-charging of these laptops in the developing countries were they’ll be deployed? You bet.
Read the BBC news here.