For the techno geek that has to have everything and still wants good cooking. The George Foreman USB iGrill from ThinkGeek. At $99 not bad considering it runs completely from power from you computer through the USB cable and has a program on your computer that tells it how to cook your food. from the description:
Download recipes, enter in the type of food, weight and desired degree of doneness, and the iGrill handles the rest. Did you know that a medium rare 1/4 lb. hamburger made from 80% lean beef takes 1 minute and 45 seconds less cook time than an identical patty made from 95% lean prime Black Angus? The iGrill does. As your meal cooks, the subtle glow from under the unit increases brightness and pulses faster until your meal is perfectly done.
Talking about to services I don’t even have, but though this was fairly cool. XMRadio is getting out of the 90’s one-line-text display. Their new interface has a real live graphical interface and even has previews of what on other channels so you don’t have to miss what’s going on. Also, taking a cue from TiVo, it records the past 60 minutes of whats been on so you can pause and re-listen to what was on. Fairly cool, good step forward for radio.
Actually, what they need to add to this and actually make more $, allow you to buy the song that’s playing, download it, sync it back to you computer to download and burn, much like the new iPod Touch, iPhone, and Zune. Also add a larger hard drive so you can use the device to play your own music. Hell, just make an iPod with XMRadio already.
Now there’s an answer for you. Corbis, long time photo stock company (owed by Bill Gates) has created a new service called PicApp. It’s still in beta and are taking beta applications now. You can use photos for free from them on you blog, they run an ad over the photo when someone rolls over the image. Not really a bad idea. They also pay for click-throughs to their site. More about it here.
I’ve been reading alot lately about the changing cell phones and data plans are changing. The iPhone has really gotten consumers and companies attention.
Granted, I’d love to have an iPhone. While I do have a decent phone (LG’s Vx9900) I feel it lacks what it’s really trying to do (iPhone wanna be a year before it came out). Maybe it’s because I don’t feel like paying an extra $40 a month for Verizon’s data plan. But their cheapest “Package “is still $79.99, while AT&T’s iPhone plan is $59.99, only $15 more each month then what I’m paying now, which apparently would go strait to Apple anyway. Good for me, I have Apple stock I bought at $9.78 in 2000. Though ya still have to deal with the AT&T network, maybe not for long….
The news today? Verizon is letting customers “bring your own phone” to their network. NYTimes goes into the details more then I will, but why is this such a big deal? Verizon arguably has the strongest network. Though in a few years, I don’t think it will matter. Because of HDTV taking over the tv airwaves, the UHF spectrum being put up for auction and all the cell providers and companies such as Google are looking for their chunk.
ahumm…AOL/Time Warner, get off your ass and save your business maybe and bid as well? Remember, own the lines you provide service on. Ok, I worked there, I still own Time Warner stock too, worth about crap.
Verizon and others are actually wanting the new spectrum to be opened up for everyone, though I’m sure there will be a plenty of access fees still going around, an open network this is a good thing. With a larger and faster network being open, it means you can use whatever phone you want, just choose your provider, eventually they will all be pretty much the same anyway. I.E. what Verizon has preempted with their announcement today.
So how are cell phones changing in the next few years? The internet. That’s the biggest thing to happen to the phone call since, well, cell technology. People connect in more ways then a phone call now. I communicate through emails, IMs and the internet then I ever do on the phone. I depend on the internet for my own business. I literally couldn’t do business without being online. Why not do it anywhere instead of just in my house?
Well I thought I would throw this up here since I’m going out today to buy a piece of steel to weld onto my Jeep to make it a little stronger and support my transmission better. Glad i didn’t spend $40,000 more on a Hummer.
I’m 33 today. For some reason it seems like an odd age. Kinda an in between age. not young, not old. So today I decided to go outside and read the new Douglas Coupland book Gretchen gave me. The character talks about being 32 was the last he remembers being creative. So does this mean I’m no longer going to be creative? For me, I don’t think so. In many ways I think I’m just getting started.
For me, I feel like I was creative in High School, though more so in College. Then I went to work for AOL. I was occasionally creative. too a while to really start shooting again. But even then it was more work and part creative. But it took a while for me to stop. Then I finally left. But I think creativity is slowly coming back to me, kinda takes practice. In the next few months I going to put more into creating a book for my AOL photos, going to take a bit but I might test while a few things here and hopefully getting good feed back from people I’m a few people here. Ok, I’m back to the beautiful NC, November day and reading my book on th porch.
Wow, great video if you have the time to watch it all the way through. Larry Lessig talks about how the internet is changing culture, movies, and music. Touches on the changing needs in copyright and how business needs to embrace a more cooperative creative society. Well worth taking 20 minutes to watch.
Those in the know, have certainly heard of Saul Williams and his blend of social conscious poetry and hip hop. Those who have not….will. Especially with the release of his new album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. The new album was produced my Mr. Nine Inch Nails himself, Trent Reznor, and mixed by Alan Moulder (who has worked with U2, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN’s, and The Killers). The album came out yesterday via download for free or $5.00 through Saul Williams website. I, for one, like this new trend.
I’ve had the chance to listen to the album a couple of times and I really like it. It comes across as Saul Williams fronting Nine Inch Nails with support from TV on the Radio. Which is a good thing. Here are a couple of tracks from the new album. I really like the remake of U2’s, Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Cause you know I like to make fun videos and in case you didn’t make it to the end of all my photos of our Halloween party, here’s a video of some dancing…post bar.
Though ya still have to deal with the AT&T network, maybe not for long….