After seeing this it seems kind of silly that no other company hasn’t thought of this already. I mean to me it’s totally obvious to combine a sweet flat screen TV with a microwave. Why not just put a flat screen on an oven so we can get real large screen action?
I can’t find any specs on this thing, but I guess all you need to know is that it cooks your TV dinners in 5 minutes flat while watching Martha Stewart teach you the proper way to prepare a roast.
– via Trendir
All too often am I asked by my friends which iPod they should get and it’s never an easy question to answer. Might as well ask me what laptop they should get…wait they do that as well. In any case I am glad I can now send them over to this Playlist article on finding the perfect iPod.
It’s good in that it gets straight to the point of what each iPod is useful for. I have a regular iPod (4th gen), an iPod mini and an iPod shuffle and I find uses for all of them, but definitely don’t expect everyone to take the same approaches that I have taken.
As is the case with any industry where technology is still relatively new, companies are always trying to get the leg up on the competition by having their technology become the industry standard. The wireless industry has been in a battle for a couple of years over what the newest high-speed Wi-Fi wireless Internet connection should be for computers and other portable devices.
Finally, industry leaders have come together to form the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which includes such giants as Broadcom, Intel, Cisco, Sony and Toshiba. The companies are looking to ratify the standard by 2006 so they can move forward and develop products because the money isn’t in making the standards, it’s making the products that use the standards.
It’s no secret that I do not like the memory options available for Sony’s PSP and wish that something better would come along. It seems that “better” has happened with Datel’s 4GB PSP drive.
4GB of storage and an X2 battery combined! That’s right double the storage and double the playing time. But wait there’s even more! Believe it or not, they are even throwing in one of their other ground-breaking products for the PSP - the Get Connected Media Cable and it’s media software.
The Swanni has some predictions for 2006. Who is the Swanni? Hell if I know, but maybe we should listen to him.
- DirectTV will emerge as the HDTV leader.
- Several more HDTV networks will launch in 2006.
- New HDTV DVD players will be the buzz of the industry.
- HDTV sales will jump in the first two months of 2006.
- The Multicasting movement will be slowed in 2006.
- HDTVs in hotel rooms will encourage more sets for their homes.
- The Plasma-LCD-DLP flat-screen TV war will spur more interest in HDTV.
Screw those fancy navigation systems found in cars today. Use your iPod to view saved map directions because you know that’s what iPods are for.
Yahoo Maps and the popular iPod Photo portable MP3 player are used together to bring you an exciting online service called iPod-iWay. What is iPod-iWay? iPod-iWay is a powerful step-by-step directions saving tool that will export online driving directions from results by Yahoo Maps and import them into your iPod Photo. It’s an easy solution for getting Yahoo Map directions saved and displayed onto any iPod Photo or Nano, and without the need of additional software!
What would you do if you needed your computer built? Hire the Lego Army of course! A funny look at what happens when you expect Lego people to do a man’s job with commentary and all.
For the longest time I wondered why you never really saw anyone walking around with an iPod in Tampa. When I spoke in San Francisco it seemed like every other person had an iPod, but of course every other person was walking around the city. In Tampa you don’t walk, you drive to your destination no matter how close it is and this made me realize that people probably just used their iPods in their cars. I know I do.
PCMag has found 6 ways to connect your iPod to your car stereo and it amazes that there are even six options.
image via Engadget
So let’s ignore the fact that Apple hasn’t officially announced a video iPod and possibly never will and focus on what will happen if they do decide to go that route. Sony’s PSP was supposed to be the portable media player that took over the world. You never hear about it’s staggering sales or how PSP movies are flying off the shelves, all you seem to hear about on the web is it’s ability to be hacked and customized.
Honda has decided it was time to cater to the folks that have to cart their dogs around all the time in their cars and created the WOW concept car. As most concept cars it is ugly, but I can see it fitting quite well in Japan for some reason.
Still doesn’t seem that safe with a dog sitting right there especially with a head on collision. I guess some concepts are better left on the drawing board.
via Newlaunches