January 2010
35 posts
Names
mrgan:
Product names currently topping Engadget’s feed: (these are all real and not particularly cherry-picked)
Kula TV PMP
Optio I-10
Gateway EC14D
Alienware M11x
Projectiondesign Remote Light Source
DMC-ZS7 (Or is it 7SZ? Or SZ7? Or Z7S?)
MvixUSA Ultio Pro
Moto CLIQ
OLPC XO
Mustek MER-6T
I like “iPad”.
Neven Mrgan on the tablet.
mrgan:
One last tablet observation:
The likes of Gizmodo and TechCrunch obsess over hardware specs as if those somehow capture how a device will actually work and feel. Here’s my advice: ignore the technical limitations of the device. Pay no attention to the storage space, connectivity, ports, etc. Those can change; the UI can’t. [emphasis my own]
I realize that what I’m saying sounds crazy -...
Apple Tablet
Fake or not, this is certainly what I’ve always envisioned the tablet to look like. Why people think it will look much different than this doesn’t make sense to me.
Photos of the Apple Tablet - Hi.
“If Back to the Future were made today, Marty would have travelled back in time to 1980.”
via Kottke
stevenf:
It seems distasteful coming out of Zuck’s mouth, but I’m inclined to agree. Younger people simply don’t care about online privacy.
Or, to put it differently, people of a certain cash-strapped age view their privacy as a currency which can be traded for other things, such as a free online game — something their parents would likely be extremely wary of. To me it feels like a classic...
Hark, a marvelous jest
BONNIE: I ask this deed of you thrice now; and that which a damsel craves constantly is the service of a tongue most moved in capability. Look to my foot; I cannot reach that far. Blow, wind! THE KNAVE: I fear thy charms. Will not thy consort mind If I bestow his lady fair my wind? BONNIE: Nay, there’s naught for which Oliver carest; He mindeth not, for he’s a nihilist. BRANDT:Our court’s noble...
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
DONALD: Of what dost thou speak, that tied the room together, Knave? Take pains, for I would well hear of that which tied the room together. WALTER: Didst thou attend the Knave’s tragic history, Sir Donal DONALD: Nay, good Sir Walter, I was a-bowlin WALTER: Thou attend’st not; and so thou hast no frame of reference. Thou art as a child, wandering and strutting amidst the groundlings as a play is...
