Archive for March, 2008
Acorn Studios has finally found a way to put Mac products to good use. It would seem that after smashing a Mac into itty bitty pieces, you can actually reuse some of those pieces to make into jewelry. This three piece set comes with a “Return”” key keychain, “M” “A” “C” keys hanging from a stainless steel necklace, and my personal favorite, the “Delete” and “Help” key earnings.
For only $39.95, there really is no better way to tell your artistic girlfriend that she better go get some help or you’re ready to delete her from your life and she just didn’t grasp the iCheated t-shirt. Or, if you have a Mac tattoo, what I meant to say was, congratulations, you’ve finally got those accessories you’ve always wanted to complete your fanboyish look!
These gimmicky computers need to stop. If the computer is a laptop, then it needs to be compact while still fitting your needs. If the computer is a desktop, then all it needs to do is fit your needs and not take up an entire wall. The ZPC-GX31 is neither of those and thus, a gimmicky computer.
The ZPC-GX31 looks like a laptop that forgot to come with a screen. If all you have room for is a keyboard and screen then clearly, you meant to buy a laptop and just got confused. While the system does offer some really competitive features for it’s size, it’s half a laptop! You can’t upgrade it like a desktop!
And what happens when you get angry and instinctively bash your keyboard into your monitor?
Some where between your cell phone video camera and your average video camera stands the Flip Video. This little device has the standard design of a regular digital camera but offers a very simple and easy user interface so that almost anyone could pick it up and get rolling.
I had some hands on time when I was down in New York with Zipvo Real Estate Video Network and that’s really the field that I think this device is going to take off in the most. The two models, 60min for $179,99 and 30min for $149.99 made it so easy for us to record a property video and upload it through it’s built in USB. The only draw back is that their software is only easy for the third parties they’re working with instead of making it open source. Opening up their platform would be the smartest moves they could possibly make.
Remember those spy kits you had as a little kid? Well it looks like the guys over at ThinkGeek.com not only remember those kits, but found a product that’s got your decoder ring beat. Behold the 1.3 megapixel spy camera sunglasses!
These slick shades are equipped with UV400 polarized flip-up lens, a rechargable battery pack, USB mini interface, MP3 playback, a 1.3 megapixel camera with remote, and even 1GB of storage!
That’s a lot of features for a set of spy glasses that only cost $100. Especially considering the craptastic ones we had as kids that didn’t even block out the sun from our eyes.
Logitech’s ClearChat wireless headset is looking to make waves in the VOIP accessories department. This new USB wireless headset has been designed to specifically deal with internet calling thanks to it’s unique muting feature. If you’re tired of talking over the person on the other end of the call, Logitech has included the ability for you to automatically mute yourself if the other person is speaking.
At $100, this plug and play headset broadcasts at over the 2.4-gigahertz and gives you more than 30 feet to work with. If you do a lot of VOIP calling it’s definitely worth the investment, especially considering it’s from Logitech.
If you’ve ever bought an audio or video product from Best Buy or Circuit City, you’ve most likely been attacked by associates who relentlessly attempt to sell you Monster equipment. Personally, I don’t notice a huge deal of difference between Monster and other products and think they’re actually a huge gimmick. So when I saw the iSoniCast Wireless Audio Bridge I actually laughed out loud.
For $100 you get a two part device that will allow you to do the same thing you’ve been doing with your FM Transmitter all these years, but Monster makes it! You’ll probably get a little bit of a better sound, but be realistic, if this is how you’re playing MP3’s you don’t care that much about the small improvement.
Toshiba announced just last week that Japanese consumers would be able to purchase their 128GB SSD HD as soon as April in their line of notebooks. Apparently, Toshiba has managed to produce this very large solid state disk for well under the price of their competition and well over the size as well. Their MLC SSD’s are capable of reading at 100 MB per second and writing at 40 MB per second, which makes it significantly faster than a 7200 rpm hard drive thanks to the use of a new SATA II interface.
Let’s hope consumers are more open to Toshiba’s line of SSD as the Dell line received fairly poor reviews.
Zoolander must be jumping for joy as the Modu mini phone is expected to make it’s way over to the United States either late this year or early next. If the modular design of the phone, allowing you to fit the Modu with different add-ons specific to your needs, wasn’t cool enough, the Guinness Book of World Records has officially recognized the Modu mini phone as the lightest and smallest phone in the world.
My question is, how many bulky accessories will you need to make sure you don’t accidentally drop your Modu phone without even realizing it?
It looks like Mozilla FireFox, everybody’s favorite alternative to both Internet Explorer and Safari, is going to hit the big 3.0 come this June. Mozilla has already entered into the beta testing phase of development to let developers get a head start on recoding their extensions to interface with FireFox 3.0.
With over 160 million users, FireFox has managed to hold it’s own in the fight for web browser preference and is a fan of many open source guru’s and grandma’s alike. If you can’t wait to get your grubby little hands on FireFox 3.0 then rejoice in knowing that the public beta begins in the first week of April.
If you haven’t heard about the Eee PC from Asus yet, you’re clearly not a blogger. As someone always on the go, I’ve had the need for a smaller pc that has good connectivity, light weight, and wasn’t going to break the bank. That’s where the Eee PC came in. The 7inch laptop is more than capable of handling every need that I could possibly have on the go through built in options or modifications and with a modded version of Windows on my 4GB SSD, I’m up and running in under 30 seconds.
But just a few months after I’ve purchased this model, it looks like Asus is already finalizing the specs of their 8.9inch model. I understand their desire to compete with other laptops, but once they start offering more features and increase the price, why wouldn’t consumers purchase a different system all together? This is a poor idea and it’s going to blow up in their face.
Asus has also yet to included the attractive women accessory seen in the picture above