Category Archive for Tech
September 7, 2004
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Chinni
My good buddy Joe will go nuts.
The good people at TiVo and the industrious sorts at Netflix have put their noggins together and come up with this idea:
Netflix and Tivo ushered in an age of couch-potato bliss. Netflix lets its customers browse through its huge movie catalog on the Web and rent DVDs through the mail without having to worry about late fees. TiVo lets people digitally record their favorite shows and zoom through the ads. But now couch potatoes are perched on the cusp of true paradise. Soon they won't even have to stand up to trudge to the mailbox; fat broadband pipes will let them directly download movies over the Net to their television.
Man alive, what's a poor techno-geek to do?
read the full story here.
Posted by Turfdigger at 2:11 PM
June 18, 2004
Cleaning With Light?
Also seen on the Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools blog:
Fresh2 makes fluorescent compact light bulbs coated with a titanium dioxide film. The fluorescent UV light causes a chemical reaction with the film, and the resulting oxidation eliminates odors. I know it sounds far fetched, but the things really work.
Posted by Turfdigger at 9:48 AM
Big Sound, Little Package
Seen recently on the wonderful Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools blog is the iPAL:
This is a weatherized, rubber-coated radio/speaker that accepts an iPod (or any other music device with a mini-plug). The tiny PAL has an amazing rich and deep sound. You plug an iPod in, turn up the volume, and it uses its internal rechargeable battery to play your musical playlists longer than your iPod battery will last (I can get 8 hours on the PAL in one charge). Clear, marvelous sound from a small, rugged box that has survived rain and being dropped into a pool.
Posted by Turfdigger at 9:47 AM
December 8, 2003
Laser Delivery
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Posted by Turfdigger at 11:34 AM
June 30, 2003
1st Amendment Rights Extended to Online Publishers
from a Wired News story by Xeni Jardin
02:00 AM Jun. 30, 2003 PT
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers...
Read the full Wired News story | BoingBoing
Posted by Turfdigger at 4:18 PM