Archive for May, 2009
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009Owners of iPhones (or iPod Touches) and Canon DSLRs have a new piece of App Store fun to eagerly anticipate. DSLR Remote from OnOne will allow you to control certain functions of your camera, including the shutter, and even send the LiveView image from the camera back to a laptop. The down side is, the [...]
E-ink: For Reading the Time as Well as Books
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009E-ink is not just for eReaders, as is evidenced by Phosphor’s nifty line of e-ink watches. They’ve introduced two new ones, a Digital Hour Clock and a Digital Calendar to compliment the earlier Ana-Digi Watch. The designs are certainly eye-catching and likely to increase your acknowledged geek factor wherever you wear them. The Digital Hour [...]
Proprietary Systems Force a Long Term View of Gadgets
Saturday, May 16th, 2009I’ve been thinking a bit recently about brand loyalty in the consumer technology world. Whether it’s purely driven by satisfaction with previous products, or by becoming entrenched in a proprietary system that makes it easier to stay with a previous manufacturer’s line than move to something new (that might better suit current needs), companies like [...]
Surveying the Fallout of the Twitter Reply Furor
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009It’s been a wild day and half over on Twitter. Yesterday, through the Twitter blog, co-founder Biz Stone announced a “small settings update” that seemed pretty large to a lot of users. The decision was made to turn off the function that makes replies sent to someone you don’t follow visible to you. Let me [...]
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