Oooo… nice ideas: future watch design winners (via Adam).
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Braille PDA
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
This thing could be very useful not just for blind people, but in other situations where looking at a screen wouldn’t be possible.
(via Boing Boing)
Cell phone unlocking
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
Via BB, GSM phone unlocking.
First try this free forum for unlock codes, and if that doesn’t work here’s a database of codes for money.
Toshiba Portege M205
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
If I needed to get a new computer, I think this is what I’d the newest Toshiba Portege. “60GB hard drive, built-in 802.11g WiFi, a 1.5GHz procesor, 512MB of RAM, and a 12.1-inch display.” I bet the Portege line will be really nice by the time I actually have to buy a […]
Blue Jacking
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
Blue jacking:
using a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. ‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’, in the ‘Name’ field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their phone, a message will popup saying “‘Hello, you’ve been bluejacked’ has […]
Rheingold on location based blogging
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
Will Location Blogging Take Off? Although his customers are the operators who sell their services to consumers, WaveMarket's founder and CEO Tasso Reoumeliotis believes his job is to enable users to create the content and the applications. My conversations with…
Air graffiti
Sunday, June 6th, 2004
The Nokia 3220 has a "wave messaging feature" Abe calls "air graffiti." As a commentor on Smart Mobs pointed out, if you don't want to wait for or spend money on this phone, you could always pick up a…
A note about the treo180
Monday, April 5th, 2004
It seems I can't use it in Germany, apparently Germany uses GSM 1800 only, and the Treo uses 800/1900. Hopefully it will work in Prague. Sauceruney: The Treo 180 is of course much cheaper than the 600, but it has…
Wearable stuff
Sunday, March 7th, 2004
I've been thinking that wearable computing, ubicomp, and augmented reality won't be very useful for existing computing tasks (designing, typing, book-keeping, data analysis, etc.) but will be useful in previously un-computerized jobs such as carpentry, bike messaging, and cooking. Wouldn't…
Another geo-tagging service
Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
Wave Market is a new location based tagging service (or "virtual graffiti" service, but I'm finding that term less and less apt). Not much info on the site, but it sounds like it will be available in the US….
Link-soup special: mobile links
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004
Various things related to the mobile web: Die Puny Humans, Boing Boing, and Smart Mobs all have winksites now. Ellis also has a fiction winksite, paving the way for my idea for a mobile literary journal. Having three of the…
Glomadic solution: Treo 180 w/ Telestial?
Monday, February 9th, 2004
I'm thinking of getting an unlocked Treo 180 and a prepaid SIM card from Telestial for my trip to Europe. I don't need the newer fancier treos (the 270/300 or 600), and certainly can't afford them unlocked. An unlocked…
Virtual graffiti round up
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
For my reference, here's a list of the various virtual graf systems that I've found: 1. Geonotes. Web site is down, and the program failed to connect to the server. This is/was a project based out of Stockholm, but it…
12 Myths of Mobile Device User-Interface Design
Sunday, February 1st, 2004
Conference on mobile user-interface design (via Boing Boing) Myth: Users want power and aesthetics. Features are everything. Myth: What we really need is a Swiss army knife. Myth: 3G is here! Myth: Focus groups and other traditional market analysis tools…
More to life than gigabytes?
Thursday, January 8th, 2004
Abe reminds us that there's more to life than gigabytes. True that. As someone in the flame-war that my post about the Dell DJ has become says: "if you're only worried about how you look, having the latest trends and…
Mobile power tools
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
Via Boing Boing: Mobile Whack, a blog about tools and resources for mobile devices. Cool things I've found so far: an app for using your Treo as a wireless modem and mobileRSS…
iPod update (updated 12/2/03)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003
So it turns out that Apple's support page has listing for a $99 battery service out of warranty. I searched for iPod batter at the Apple support page and didn't find this, but it's turned up on a few blogs….
iPod’s unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003
iPody's dirty secret. Via Adam, who's been on a roll since he got settled in NYC. Just another reason I'm glad I got a Dell instead of an iBook….
Laptop stuff
Sunday, November 9th, 2003
Just a couple things I found on Boing Boing a while back that I don't want to lose. Lapvantage Dome and RAPS….
Nokia announces the 6820
Friday, October 31st, 2003
Nokia has officially announced the 6820 (previously referred to as the 6850). I wonder if it will run Symbian… the 6800 doesn't. Anyway, it has an XHTML browser and instant messaging and an awesome form factor. The 6800s run about…