I want a Kindle. I think they are cool because: You can carry around 100s of books in the space of one. I routinely carry 4-5 books with me on long trips – in my carry-on. I always carry at least two: one fiction and one non-fiction. You can take electronic notes. Notes, quotations, highlighting […]
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I’m sitting here in a house with no phone, no cell phone coverage and no tv and we’re talking on the phone and watching a movie.
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One Laptop Per Child just announced a new version. It will be half the size of the first version and look like an e-book. However, turn it sideways and one of the touch screen will become a keyboard. The new device will cost $79 and will be marketed as a text book replacement. You can
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This family tree application looks really intriguing – you get to enter in your family tree and as your relatives sign up, they can add to it. Not only can you see all the relationships, you can contact them. While I don’t usually worry too much about privacy on the web, this one actually seems
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I’ve been waiting for my cell phone and my laptop to merge. I want something much more powerful than my cell phone but much smaller than my laptop. Devices like the Nokia n80 and the iPhone are coming close. So I found this curious: a new study says that the iPhone is replacing more laptops
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I really liked my Shure headphones that Frank got me for Christmas a few years ago. However, when they broke – or rather just stopped working – I decided to just go back to the default iPod headphones. Not a good decision. The background noise on the BART train and on the airplane yesterday were
I bought an ASUS Eee PC last week. I was looking for a very light-weight and yet inexpensive laptop for travel that could run Linux well. I love it. My shoulder loves it. After having used it on a business trip, here are my initial pros and cons. The good: It’s light. Only 2 pounds.
If you are interested in digital photography and have wondered just what those digital SLR cameras are all about, then A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras is a must read! I learned a lot. But beware. The article managed to do what Frank has not been able to do for years now: it convinced
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Reading The Bookman’s Wake I stumbled across this passage where the main character is talking about a hand printing press: Here he had practiced his voodoo, making wonderful things on quaint-looking equipment, just like this. I felt a strange sense of loss knowing that someday we would attain technological perfection at the expense of individualism.
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Part of my dream computer is becoming reality. (I really want a computer that’s part of me like Peter Hamilton dreams up.) Today researchers have shown that you can add an electronic display to contact lenses. In the future people will be able to see a display hanging in the air – just like in
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