I wouldn’t say that I’m sleep deprived. I just have a difficult time falling asleep. I’ve never consulted with a specialist because I honestly don’t think it’s a problem. Once I’m asleep, I’m out like a rock for the rest of the night. Doesn’t everyone have a difficult time falling asleep? Should I consult a sleep expert? …
Accessories & Peripherals
The Five Greatest Gadgets of All Time
For reasons unknown to me I’ve been asked to declare what I presume to be the five greatest gadgets of all time. No simple task considering the vast number of gizmos and doodads that have been feverishly churned out over the last millennia. But we’re not talking about things that have had some revolutionary impact on society, you …
FLO TV Personal TV: Being a Couch Potato Has Never Been Easier
There’s never been a compelling reason to have a portable TV on your person. Do we really need another way to rot our brains? FLO TV certainly thinks so. The Qualcomm-developed technology began appearing on a handful of mobile phones last year and offers live streaming and previously aired content from a variety of networks. The FLO TV …
The Nook: Maybe Not a Huge Disaster for Amazon
Now we have nooks and vooks, I’m going to go trademark wook and pook just in case.
This thing does look pretty cool. (And by the way, who built it? Can’t be internally developed.) I wonder whether Bezos is jumping up and down on his fedora right now. Or I mean, he is, but how hard? For the obligatory contrarian viewpoint, read …
Now That’s Abridged!
The coolest (imaginary) e-book so far
The French are totally kicking butt when it comes to imagining what e-books will look like and act like. These really make the whole Kindle thing look lame.
The end of an era
An amazing thing happened today: The battery on my Kindle 2 finally ran out of juice.
Amazing because, with the wireless connection off, it lasted nearly two months. I used it about a half hour a day. Glad I hedged in my story and said the battery would last “more than two weeks.”
The Smokeless Cig!
Finally, at long last, an electronic cigarette. Unclear if it’s still carcinogenic for the user, but the website contends that there’s no second-hand danger to innocent bystanders. Also, dig the blue “gem” that glows at the cig’s tip.
Bad Tech Blogger No Donut
This rant at Gizmodo is right about gadget-bloggers, and technology journalism in general. It’s also pretty amusing.
New Tolkien: More Morgoth
On April 17 Houghton Mifflin will publish The Children of Húrin, a “new” work of fiction by J.R.R. Tolkien:
Apparently this is a narrative he noodled with extensively during his lifetime but never completed to his own satisfaction, though he left behind a lot of manuscript pages; I think some version of it also appears in The …
Another Party I Wasn’t Invited To
People who work at Bungie are happier than you. Somehow it seems wrong that 4×4 Halo 3 matches are being played somewhere in the world, and I am not at that place. All I can do is press my nose against those smeared-out .jpegs and whine like a whipped puppy.
But remember, happy Bungie people: it’s all fun and games till somebody …
Whedon Ankles Wonder Woman
“Ankles” being Variety slang for “bails.” According to Whedonesque, and subsequently every entertainment trade outlet in the ‘verse, Joss Whedon is off the Wonder Woman project. Let’s see, how much can I legally quote?
Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different
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