Friday, October 29, 2004
the changing nature of market research...
In a piece here McGee comments on the potential of blogs to do bring about huge changes in the nature of market nature...
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Of iPod's black, photo and the plain vanilla...
I was really looking forward to the u2 Ipod, but having a look at it yesterday, made me drop it from the consideration set pronto. matte black woul dhav elooked good. the glossy black and ferrari red click whel, just don't cut it. with my CD collection running into hundreds. iPod mini has too little space to be of practical use... the 60G iPod is obscenely priced at $600 US. this rules that out.
So now the toss up is between the 40 Gig iPod 4G and the 40 Gig iPod Photo.
What does the Photo version have that the 4G doesn't?
Colour Screen
Photo Viewer
Carrying Case
25% more playback time
-8 mins skip protection
TV out
+.2 ounces in weight
AV Cable
The Official case alone retails for 20 USD. If they'd added the remote. the new Photo bundle would dhave been a fabulous deal at 500 USD.. they could have evn dropped the case and kept the remote, even then would have been a good deal... but right now, I just can't justify the extra 100 USD for above features. Now that the new prod hype is done. I guess the 4G is the best bang for the buck iPod.
Of course there are the other players as well.. but with no support in India (free or otherwise), it rules them out very quickly.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Hayabusa for Three
Cute, I wish I had a Hayabusa alone... never mind the trike
Yes, a high-speed motorcycle for three, and that's not only three people, but also three wheels ! Nick Dagostino converted his Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle into a trike, but not a conventional trike. The two rear wheels are behind each other (in-line) instead of next to each other. This way he can still use the Hayabusa's aerodynamics to obtain many speeding tickets.
On top of the three wheels, he also fitted an electronic camera in the rear and a 5" TV monitor into the tank.
Now, he has place to put two pillion passengers behind him on the motorcycle.
Unconventional ? Yes ! Pretty ? Yes
Click here to read more about it. (Bikernet.com via Jalopnik & Bikes in the Fast Lane)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The brothel creeper
The brothel creeper is worth a few laughs.. most enjoyed by single males, than anyone else... :)
Of all the sexual perversions, monogamy is the most unnatural.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Television Sends Out Distress Signal
Haw Haw Haw...
An Oregon man found a group of U.S. Air Force men at his door, warning him to keep his television turned off or face a $10,000 fine. It seems Chris van Rossman's Toshiba—something like this MW24FM1 model with the built-in DVD and VCR—had been broadcasting on an international distress frequency, which was picked up by a satellite and noticed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in Virginia. Toshiba claims to have never heard of the problem before, but is going to get van Rossman a new TV.
Something like this happened to me when I was 19 and passed out, knocking my bong into the stereo, accidentally sending out the international distress signal for "fire." (Thanks, Alan!)
[Gizmodo]
Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark
This has potential... I wonder what the range of th ese things are...
Tired of blaring TV sets at shops, bars and waiting rooms? A new universal remote called the TV-B-Gone lets users turn off virtually any set. A trial run in the streets of San Francisco shows the device to be quite effective. By Steven Bodzin.
[Wired News]
DVX-POD 7010
Another one for the Wish List...
Even though I am of the persuasion that portable video players should be as small as possible, even I can't deny that the DVX-POD 7010 is a nice looking beast—and I'd not just saying that because it looks like a distended iPod. A native 720 by 486 widescreen resolution is seriously hard to hate on, especially if the unit has the horsepower to decode video with that resolution (or higher). There had been talk about the manufacturer MobiNote bringing over the DVX-POD when it was announced earlier this year but something hit a snag, obviously. Now another company called Ama (ah-ma) will be bringing the DVX-POD to the US for $599 for the 20GB unit (I can only expect a larger model at some point in the future).
Since size is one of the main things I dislike about most of the current PVP and PMCs, I figure if you're going to have to carry around a bag to hold your player in, you might as well get the biggest, nicest screen possible.
[Gizmodo]
Flying Motorcycle
Woo Hoo.. Another thing on my that should be on my Wish List
The first flying motorcycle. Well, not really a motorcycle, it's more like a trike (or the Carver {link}). It's called the PALV, which stands for Personal Air and Land Vehicle.
The "motorcycle" is a slim, aerodynamic, 3 wheel unit, with the agility of a motorcycle. The rotor and propeller are folded away and can be unfolded to fly under 4,000 feet (1,500 meter).
The unit runs on conventional petrol and has the amazing speed of 200 kph, both on land and in the air. It does not take off vertically, since unlike a helicopter, this vehicle is a gyrocopter. This means it can take off and land on very short strips of land.
And if the engine fails, you can still 'glide' it using the auto-gyroscopic effect to safety. The engine itself generates 70 decibels of "noise", which is much more quieter than any other flying vehicle.
The vehicle is still in concept stage, but Spark Design are hopeful.... I for one am very interested in seeing something like this. But is it feasible ?? You will need to have a pilot's license, and those are not as easy to get as a motorcycle license.
[Bikes in the Fast Lane - Motorcycle News]
Monday, October 18, 2004
Buzzword alert - Podcasting
New Buzzword doing the round. Podcasting... damn I must really get that HDD music player soon...
You've just learned about blogs and wikis. Now you need to know the latest buzzword - podcasting, the process of sending audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player. Googling "podcasting" got 15-20 hits a month ago. On October 8 it gave you 13,000 hits. Today, one week later you get 66,000 hits. Now that's what I call a buzzword. Steve Rubel has a good roundup for PR people. Wired
[Media Culpa]
Mitsubishi's $400 Heads Up Display
This is something I want.. Way cool
[Gizmodo]
Wearable Display [MitsubishiElectric]
Friday, October 15, 2004
Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search is absolutely cool... light and fast. I've usd indexing services in the past liek Sleuth Hound Pro and others. but nothign beats this... and this is still in beta. Wow!
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