The Next iPhone

Gizmodo scoops the next iPhone, it comes with a front camera, higher resoltion display, bigger battery and looks better than the older iPhone 3GS.

More information here.

Pong Clock

Now thats a clock I'd love to have.

MONOCHRON - open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo.

Too bad they sell it in Kit form and you need to solder bits together, more from their site here.

iPad Addons I want to see

The iPad is out. I wont repeat all its lovely features, you can always check them out at the Apple web site. I personally like it, a lot of grumbling is going on about how closed it is. Gadget geeks compare it to a laptop which it isn't and complain about its closedness and no multitasking. These critics are missing the point, the iPad is an appliance, that does all the functions it offers in an intuitive seamless simple way. When you buy a TV, you don't expect to hack it. The same applies to a washing machine, you don't want to tweak its spin cycle. The iPad will apeal to the greater non technical masses and I feel it will be a big success especially at the very reasonable price point of around $500.

There are some add ons that I would love to see on the iPad, among them are powerful but tiny speakers, the sort Bose excels at. The speakers in Apple laptops are ok, but I need a powerful bass and high decibels of sound for my music.

It would be great if my iPad can act as my master remote, I got my TV remote, receiver remote, DVD system remote, satellite receiver remote all lying next to me. I want to get rid of these and just have my iPad be my remote with a simple interface and some TV programs pulled of the web to not only select the channel I want to view but which programs I want to see.

A high powered projector would be awesome too, I can display the movies I play on the wall with the high powered speakers blasting away in 5.1 emulated surround sound.

I want a printer on the iPad. I even figured out a way of putting one on it. You place your specially treated sheet of paper on the screen, and then the screen blasts the paper with laser or ultraviolet and it imprints on the paper. Voila, instant software printer. (If anyone takes this idea and makes it a product, I want my cut)

I want a scanner on my iPad. Again the concept is simple, just place your paper on the screen and the paper is scanned in your iPad. Now how to do it is slightly tricky, but I am sure the geniuses at Apple can figure it out.

Put in a Camera for all the Internet geeks complaining and crying for one. I personally can't see myself or other taking the iPad and pointing it at something or someone to take a picture, it would look very silly, but the masses have spoken so give them a camera.

One thing I do want is the iPad to be waterproof, so I can read it while floating in my swimming pool, or in my bathtub. I also need the iPad to be buoyant, so in case I let go of it, I don't want it to sink to the bottom of the pool and have me diving for it.

Evolution of Storage

This graphics shows the evolution of storage, very impressive, for the bigger picture showing storage for data, music and photos, go here.

My Macbook Air got eGO

My Macbook Air is here

I just received my Macbook air. Here are a few pics, now I got to go play work on my new Macbook.

Smile Crisis

There is a serious crisis in this country. People are not smiling. Girls look like they are smelling something bad, boys look like they are going to kill someone.

Smile people, life is too short to have a constant frown.

If you need help smiling, this little mouthpiece from Japan can help you:





According to the instructions

The Beauty Smile Trainer is basically a mouthpiece, but it's designed specifically to make your smile wider and more amicable than the one you already have. It's even endorsed by a cosmetic dentist (the woman on the top left.) In addition to improving your smile, the product promises to reduce facial sagging, making your countenance more firm and petite.

Discovered here from TOKYOMANGO.

Television in Bed

I have a television in my bedroom. When I wake up I watch music videos, when I get back from work I watch movies and before I sleep I change channels to a news channel with someone droning monotonously about world problems to help me sleep.

My TV set is around 8 years old and I need to upgrade it. I was thinking of a nice new flat panel that I can hang on the wall, but after seeing this TV setup here, this is exactly the type of TV I want.