Kensington is a company known for its staple, innovation-free products. There is nothing wrong with that per se. They make cheaper versions of much needed devices, sparing the frills to deliver cost effectiveness. So imagine my surprise when Devin Coldewey pointed me toward Kensington’s new Ci740 keyboard. It features a low-profile design to reduce its desk footprint, but more importantly, it offers two USB 2.0 connectors with cable routing. The downside? It’s flat as a 2×4, meaning its lacking in what they call “ergonomics”. So in summary, looks pretty, probably performs well, will give you carpal tunnel syndrome. I’m sticking with my Logitech Wave. Tags: technology, DVD, equipment, speaker (Read the full post about ‘Kensington Ci740 keyboard doesn’t suck’…)
Put together a couple of crystals, some LED lights of different colors, a bracelet, a watch, and a crazy designer. What do you get? Result: The Real Crystal LED Watch, designed by Illya Yakovlev. For now it is only a concept, but maybe we’ll get the chance to see a real version in the future. The LED lights display the time, and you can change two settings - luminosity and color. via Tags: CD, digital, gizmos, hi fi (Read the full post about ‘The Luxury Wristwatch with Crystals’…)
Virginia was first with a law requiring public schools to teach classes on Internet safety. Hear, hear. Texas and Illinois have both followed suit. I totally agree. The Internet is something that has taken hold in the general public in the blink of an eye, relatively speaking. Its uptake has been rapid as compared to say, television or radio.
As an IT person who understands a fair amount of computers, technology and the Internet, I still maintain that computers are complicated beasts, and it is downright scary how little people know and understand. This doesn’t stop them from trawling the Internet, happily clicking away at things they don’t understand.
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The most impressive company that had a booth at Comdex back in 1996 was Drive Savers: They had a Museum of Disk-asters in which they showed the burnt, dropped and drown computers from which they were able to rescue data. Disk Savers still exist today. You can see their website here: Data Recovery by DriveSavers | Hard Drive Data Recovery - Home Here is a link to their Data Recovery Hall of Fame: Data Recovery by DriveSavers | Hard Drive Data Recovery - Hall of Fame I remember being so impressed that they helped save an episode of The Simpsons. They are still touting that accomplishment almost twelve years later. So many companies from back then have disappeared. (Read the full post about ‘Comdex 1996: Day 3′…)
Philips GoGear SA28 is the first mp3 player that features its own Fullsound technology. The SA28 was first introduced during the CES2008, and now, it is available at China mainland. The 2GB SA28 is sale for RMB399 (approx US$57) with built-in FM tuner. Fullsound is a digital audio algorithm patented by Philips that refines audio output by performing 10 million operations per second to analyze and re-compute the music signal before it is sent to the speaker. This means that FullSound brings out the best of any audio system and delivers more life to the music. (Read the full post about ‘Philips GoGear SA28 for $57′…)
USB flash drives have led to the death of the floppy disk drive. Unfortunately, they’ve also introduced some risk when it comes to business data being placed on unsecured flash drives. In fact, it seems that many IT executives and managers don’t realize how much unsecured flash drives are being used. According to a SanDisk survey, 77% of corporate end users indicated that they have used a personal flash drive for work-related tasks. IT executives and managers surveyed only estimated the use to be around 35%. Naturally, such wide use of personal flash drives to store work data increases the risk of such data falling into the wrong hands. (Read the full post about ‘SanDisk survey warns of personal flash drive use’…)
We published an article about Zipidee launch back in October. They are now announcing that eBooks will be included to the list of digital goods categories they are offering. Since eBay restricted Digital goods trade to the Classified-Ad format on March 31, 2008, frustration was growing among eBay sellers. It seems that Zipidee is taking advantage of the situation to attract digital content publishers unhappy with the new eBay policy. There are other sites similar to Zipidee like lulu.com and I did not get the time to compare the competitors. I got a demo at the time of the launch and I was impress by the flexibility (pricing, DRM option etc…) and the ease of use of the platform. (Read the full post about ‘Zipidee Enables eBook Sales… thanks to eBay!’…)
by Paul Miller, posted Apr 10th 2008 at 10:32AM Canon’s building on its well-received XL H1 prosumer, interchangeable-lens video camera with the new XL H1S and XL H1A. The primary addition shared by the new cameras is the updated 20x HD Video Lens III, but there are also improvements to the image and color settings, audio input capabilities and an external lcd monitor output plug. (Read the full post about ‘Canon’s new XL H1S and XL H1A prosumer HD camcorders’…)
My mother taught me not to open my mouth if I don’t have anything good to say. Well, needless to say, with the Bullshit button, I don’t even have to open my mouth at all.
The Bullshit button can rile up anyone with five snarky sentences:
- (Beep) That was bullshit!
- (Siren) Bullshit detected, take precautions!
- (Siren) Bullshit level defcon 5!
- Oh come on now, that ain’t even bullshit, that’s horseshit!
- Warning, warning, bullshit alert!
All you need to do is load the gadget up with two triple A batteries and you’re on your way for some nasty pranking session.
