Monday, September 22, 2003

Wireless power pads.  Nice if there were any products that supported it.  I have broken, not one but two, power cord connections to laptops.  The power connector is merely soldered to the laptop's motherboard which can easily break.  Of course, the laptop manufacturers don't have that low cost part available for replacement.  Imagine a powerpad on every desk you own, built into airline drop-down trays, or on conference desktops.  Nice.  One less item for the tote bag. 10:33:36 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

WSJ.  Wow.  For the first time, sales of cellphones with cameras outsold those without cameras.  Camera phones also outsold digital cameras.  Sales of camera/phones grew from 4m to 25m since last year (during the first half of the year).  Sales of conventional digital cameras grew from 10m to 20m (during the first half of the year).  Of course, most of this action is going on outside the US. 9:28:12 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

What does Scoble want to do with the Skype guys? 9:20:23 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Stanford.  Principles for step-by-step assembly instructions.  Nice.  Now some other smart people should help this team cut these methods into software. 9:11:47 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

I watched HBO's new series "K Street" last night.  It was kind of fun watching these out of touch politicos (who have demonstrated image manipulation skills) attempt to understand a college student's desire to use KaZaA.  They did propose an intersting idea as part of their fake "brainstorming session."  What if uploading (downloading isn't easy to track) was treated like a parking ticket.  $300 an offense.  Nothing over the top, just continuous hand slaps.  It could even be automated. 8:58:08 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

NYT.  The battle of Debecka Pass.  "Two guys turned an organized Iraqi attack into chaos. They halted an entire motorized rifle company." 8:41:02 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Anthony Wood, formerly of Replay TV, has started Roku.  A wireless HDTV connection device for music, and pictures stored on your PC.  It doesn't do movies yet which means it hard to justify the $499 it costs.  Conversion kits for HDTVs that aren't PC ready cost $200, but they can handle wired video (BTW, Sony HDTVs can handle PC content without a converter).  I do like the VGA output, although it is only pass-through. 8:24:22 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Antelope Technologies.  Modular computing cores (3"x5"x1").  Basically, a mobile processor, memory, and storage device that lets you tote the guts of your computer to any shell (monitor, keyboard, mouse, and cd drives).  Of course if the shell is wireless, then as soon as the core gets close enough, it would autoconnect.  7:55:19 AM    Comment_ Trackback []