Teagan (11) received an Air Hogs helicopter at my wife’s corporate Xmas party. Those things are fun!
Now, of course, if you’re into really cool flying gizmos, you owe it to yourself to head over and drool on the iOS-controlled Parrot A.R. Drones, with their augmented-reality video game et alii. See video embedded after the break.
Wowwee also has quite a few fun flying toys.
I have to admit that when I first saw the new Dell Inspiron Duo (pictured below, US$549.99), my first thought was “this should have been an Apple first”…
Others have had their own forays into the hybrid market, but to be honest, the thought of running Windows and the usual flimsy construction or poor implementation has so far kept me away from making the move, despite loving the concept. And Linux distros like Ubunto for Netbook haven’t done a much better job at wooing me either (though we run it on the household/kids’ netbook).
But now, Apple has patented a new design which might indicate their entry in the market, hopefully in the near future. I can’t wait, if so.
To be noted: I’m not sure how comfortable those side rails would be though….
I’m about to retire my original iPhone. My now friend, Matt, had bought it for me back in October 2007, when Alex, Doug and I won an improvised WordPress/iPhone competition. So many things have happened since then, such as my now working with Automattic, this device is actually emotions laden.
The 1st-gen iPhone was never available in Canada, so I’ve had to stay on top of all things jailbreak/unlock so we could even use it. So far, it’s gone through myself until around April 2009, then my wife until about August 2010 when she got her iPhone 4, and finally my oldest son until a few days ago when I received my iPhone 4 and gave him my 3GS.
It’s in perfect working order, but is now unfortunately stuck in the past as it does not support iOS 4 and later.
Our 9 year-old has an iPod Touch and is too young for a phone with voice/text/data. Our 4 year old is just plain too young for it. So it’ll go to sleep for a while, until our youngests are ready for it. If nothing else, it makes for a great iPod, when jailbroken (so it doesn’t require a functional SIM card).
Until then, sleep tight good friend. We shall see each other soon, when you make your inescapable come back, star that you are. 🙂
I’ve just acquired a 500GB Iomega Prestige Compact external HD to backup and have extra space for my 15″ MacBook Pro.
My internal drive being 320GB (~135GB used), I partitioned the drive in two: 340GB for incremental backups using Apple’s Time Machine software and the remainder (~160GB) for extra/portable space when I need it.
I quite like the stylish black brushed metal enclosure design. For lovers of the Mac Pro design, it also has the tell-tale cheese-grater effect in the front. 🙂
The drive only requires USB to be powered, and as shown in the picture above, its cable sports two USB connectors. Plugging both at once gives you twice the power, and therefore allows for maximum USB2 transfer speed of 480Mb/second. Plugging in only one will save on power, especially useful when the laptop runs on on battery power, but will reduce the transfer speed to around half its maximum. This, to me, is perfectly acceptable and is a great feature. Having no extra power adapter to carry around is a big win.
Inside is a 2.5″ Samsung HM500JI SATA drive. Time will tell if this is a good thing or not, but so far, the drive is both very quiet and fast (read/write). It also is not showing signs of overheating, despite having just written 135GB to it at high-speed (1,655,488 items). This is also very important in a fan-less enclosure design (quieter).
So far so good, very happy with my purchase. At CDN $79 with free shipping, I couldn’t really go wrong or afford to not have full backups of my cherished laptop.
The Liquid Image Summit Series is the world’s first snow goggle with an integrated digital camera. The goggle contains a wide angle lens to capture all the action while skiing, boarding, sledding or snowmobiling. The hands free unit has a 5.0 MP (2560 x 1920) camera mode and a video mode that records D1 video (720×480) at a rate up to 30 frames per second with audio.
And they don’t look half-bad either!
This new add-on sounds pretty sweet. Mmm, I predict an eventual third monitor in my future on the iMac. I’ve got just the spot for it. 😉