Tablet PC Makers Embrace a Dying Art: Handwriting
The New York Times has a great piece about tablet PCs and handwriting. The article discusses the general decline in handwriting skills, something I’ve noticed in myself these past few months. I can barely write by hand these days.
Faking Out Tourists to Promote a New Cellphone
Sony Ericsson, a joint mobile phone venture between Sony and Ericsson, are hiring actors to hang out pretending to be tourists at famous landmarks like the Space Needle and the Empire State Building and ask real tourists to take their picture with the T68i, a cellphone that has a built-in digital camera. The Wall Street … Continued
Yet Another Storage Format for Digital Cameras
Olympus and Fujifilm announced a new storage format for digital cameras yesterday, called xD-Picture Card, which can hold up to 8GB and is less than one inch square. Of course the first ones will only be able to hold up to 128MB, which makes me think these will have a tough time catching on in … Continued
Disposable Cellphones Coming Soon
They’ve been talking about disposable cellphones forever now, and supposedly they’re about to hit the market. CNN has a piece about Hop-On, which has apparently just won regulatory approval to sell barebones mobile phones, $40 for 60 minutes of air time. They look like crap.
From the Clapper To a Universal Remote
I swear I never realized just how important the market for these universal remotes has become until today, when the New York Times ran its second piece about universal remotes in just three days. Maybe I should start Universal Remote Magazine to capitalize on what must be the massive interest in these gadgets.
Not an MP3 Player in Your Pocket. An MP3 Player is Your Pocket
There’s been talk about wearable computing for years now, but with news of a recent deal by Infineon to create chips that integrate into ordinary fabric, maybe we really will see MP3 players built into t-shirts. CNet has the story here. From the story: The most sophisticated prototype Infineon has created is a 1.25-inch-square MP3 … Continued