Tag Archives: gadgets
Weapons of Mass Distraction?
Fancy building a computer case that looks like an atomic bomb? Well, you’re in luck. Bit-Tech, an independent hardware review and PC modification site in the UK, has conjured a Project WMD that allows you to break free of the boxy design of traditional computer cases. Worried about the complexity of such an undertaking? Fear… Read More »
Origami: Death of the Tablet PC as we know it?
Whichever way you call it – Origami, Ultra Mobile PC or Lifestyle PC, it’s hard not to get sucked into too much of the hype generated from CeBIT. Like the Tablet PC and Pocket PC that came before it, Origami uses the pen as its main mode of input, although some prototypes are slates with… Read More »
If you are selling your iPod…
With product refresh cycles getting increasingly shorter, many users have resorted to selling their old iPods with music libraries intact. In fact, some sellers have even make a virtue of the fact, as shown in this screen capture from eBay. If you’re the type who changes MP3 players like you change mobile phones, remember to… Read More »
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot
Somehow, after reading about Steve Johnson’s six-hour ordeal with the iPod, I lost my entire faith in technology’s promise to rescue mankind from all its miseries. If an alleged Internet critic with a respectable organisation like Chicago Tribune can struggle with an idiot-proof product, what hope does the hapless man in the street have? But… Read More »
The Creative Way
After trying for almost three years to obtain a patent for the iPod’s rotational wheel interface, Apple’s application has been rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). According to AppleInsider, “Standing in Apple’s way appears to be a prior filing by inventor John Platt, who submitted a patent application for a similar software… Read More »