News flash from Silicon Alley Insider for tech freaks who grew up before there were tech freaks — only comic books. Korean electronics giant LG is going to try to sell a 3G cellphone watch next year. In the center of the watch face is a 1.4-inch touchscreen display that is used for most interaction. [...]
From the Los Angeles Times VHS era is winding down The last big supplier of the tapes is ditching the format, ending the long fade-out of a product that ushered in the home theater. By Geoff Boucher December 22, 2008 Pop culture is finally hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once-ubiquitous home-video [...]
I love the web, or maybe that should be, I lurve the web. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… First off, its big. Really, really big. Its big in the way that, according to Monty Python, God is really, really, big: O Lord… You are so big… so absolutely huge… Gosh, [...]
Catchy headline from Techdirt caught my eye this morning. (I had some browsing time since our local network was down. Again. Seems one can’t renovate a museum without that particular ritual.) “Gowers Slams Out Of Touch UK Cultural Secretary Over Copyright Extension Plan” You’ll remember the Gowers Report on Intellectual Property , produced at the [...]
Via the indefatigable Peter Brantley, a story about a father who put a QR code on his son’s gravestone, that is linked to a social web site – “The bikers shown in the video are visiting the gravestone of their departed friend so they can scan its QR code and visit a website with a [...]
Four teenagers, one grown-up – awake all night in midwinter. What kinds of things can happen? What kinds of technologies will we draw on to get ourselves through this evening? The back story on this is my son had a seizure in school on Election Day this past November. He hasn’t had one [...]
Cellphone technolgy seems headed for world dominance. Like the PC of the (near) future, or something. It seems destined to take over e-book technology, and now Wired is reporting yet another third-world-appropriate application: “…cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic [...]
As we approach the season of over-indulgence, its comforting to know that technology is working hard to support you in these times of impending weight gain. Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have led a team to fix the well-documented(?) problem of “fat fingers” – as touchscreens get smaller, its harder to hit [...]
I checked your naughty and nice wikis and didn’t find my name on either list, aren’t any of your elves working on that? To be honest, your involvement in social networking is disappointing. I checked Twitter but you’ve only tweeted once and that was to complain about some kind of reindeer international roaming surcharge that [...]
One keeps reading about how it is in third-world countries that creative use of cell phone technology is developing in ways we boring westerners can’t even imagine. Now, “Estonia has become the world’s first nation to recognize mobile suffrage after passing legislation to allow its citizens the ability to cast their votes in the 2011 [...]
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