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You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…”
Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just a bad product. Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see if we cannot repeat these errors again.
Oh yeah, why 16? Well because we could.
The Computer Watch: Whether it was the Ruputer, the MSN Direct ‘Smart’ Watches, the Timex Data Link Watch or another gadget watch – BTW – I remember having a “Transformers watch”. It was awesome!
Still, the Dick Tracey style communication watches, the “Computer on a wrist”, never really hit it off. I even remember a watch that gave you directions. You would put in the paper tape and turn a little dial to indicate where you are and where you are going.
2 Comments »How would you like to pump data from one source to multiple receivers? How would you like to do it and receive zero latency from it? How would you like to see this from a wireless perspective?
Andy McCaskey talked with the folks at Cavium Networks to discuss their technology for wireless HD viewing and multi-casting – ultimately eliminating the wires to go from your Blu-ray to your HDTV. Most importantly: Do all this with zero latency and high quality picture.
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No Comments »When do you think the first Solar powered vehicle was created? Well the reality is that a lot of you (even I) was not born yet. It took twelve selenium photoelectric cells and powered a small electric motor that turned the driveshaft.
That, the first Coca-cola, the Satellite Act, Michael Vick’s dogfighting, Blu-ray Disc Association and a whole ton more is in this weeks’ episode of “This Week in Tech History”. So take a listen – you might just learn something new. Or old – however you want to look at it.
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1 Comment »That’s great, it started with video tapes, movies in the home at 8, Lenny Bruce is still not afraid. I remember when we got our first VCR. It was a Betamax and we had some of the coolest movies. Of course, the Beta went the way of the do do bird. Then it was VHS. Come and almost gone.
Now it’s the DVDs turn. Earlier in the year the big question was “Who was going to replace DVD’s: HD DVD or Blu-Ray?” Now we know that answer – but does it matter? Blu-Ray players really haven’t been selling like hotcakes and if you have one, you know that it’s not the fastest thing on the planet. The ultimate irony is that Sony owned Beta and lost to VHS. Now Sony won with Blu-Ray, but will that only be a small win as alternate formats are entering into the market?
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Events covered:
First Blu-Ray Player
IBM 360
First SpaceShuttle Spacewalk
Atari Opens it’s doors
Synthetic Rubber
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Google Sky up. Is it wrong?
No Blu-Ray for XBox
The Dirty Jobs of IT
You mean that’s not Brittany?
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Another Sub Laptop?
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On this Day:
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company on NASDAQ
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Site Changes – Flash Drive Winner – Vocalo.org – Special Report this week – I forgot to
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CES:
Bill Gates Keynote
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Buglabs.net
832 gig SSD
8 Core Mac Pro
Spammer Arrested – CNN
Quantum Computers? – National Post
OLPC and Intel Part – NewYorkTimes
RealPlayer Security Flaw – PCWorld
Microsoft fixes Critical flaw – Cnet
Apple Bullying Microsoft? – CNNMoney
On the Geek
Comcast Open-cable Platform – Cnet
Network Solutions Hoarding – DomainNameNews
CompUSA Sold – PCWorld
Hollywood goes BluRay – Wired
Microsoft Stands Behind HDDVD – BetaNews
Yahoo on Mobile SDK – Ars Technica
Yahoo Rebuilding – eWeek
Copying CD’s made legal? – BBC
Mozilla’s new CEO – InfoWorld
The Queen Wii – people.co.uk
Of Note:
Laser TV
1 inch thin Plasma
Hack your XBox Fan
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No Comments »“Don’t Tase me, Bro.” is being heralded as the top quote of 2007. Who would have guessed that? Well, some tried to in early 2007. Predicting the future is not just a psychics’ job. Then again, we are not predicting – we are analyzing – Seeing trends in the last year to determine what is coming out next year.
I went through some of the predictions of 2007. Some were dead on. Social Networking and Apple devices seemed to top the list in this subject. Other predictions – well, not so much.
Now we are fast approaching 2008. There is a lot of technology that was debuted in 2007 and since they are still in their infant stages, we will see them ramp into tools that change the way we compute. 2007 was also a year of rethinking. Going Green is one of the ways we rethought things. We definitely had some good progress and will continue the trend.
So what is in store for 2008? I paneled my fellow techies at http://www.techpodcasts.com/ and we came up with some items to think about for this New Year. So let’s go through the list.
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