Steve Jobs action figure – Boing Boing
This looks so realistic. I kind of want one. Is $100 too much? It’s not 100% perfect, but wow, it sure does look realistic. It would go well on my bookshelf in my cubicle!
Category Archives: Technology and Science
History of Hard Drives
Timeline: 50 Years of Hard Drives | PCWorld
Over the past five decades, hard drives have come a long way. Travel through time with us as we chronicle 50 milestones in hard-drive development–from product firsts to new technologies, and everything in between.
Fascinating read about hard drive advances from 1956 to 2006. It was brought to my attention by a forum member who worked for them back at the beginning!
I Was Framed
Woz Gets Samsun Galaxy Nexus
First Proud Owner of Galaxy Nexus in US is Steve Woz!
Steve Wozniak visited Google to receive a Samsung Galaxy Nexus recently. Looks like he got to pose with Google staff and the ICS statue as well. I like that he seems to really love technology and not just Apple.
Dreams vs. Reality
Last night, I had a dream in which I upgraded my computer. I got a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and graphics card. It was glorious, and I was quite happy. I awoke to find my room awash in soft blue light.
This damn screen was on my monitor.
Panoramic Ball Camera
Panoramic ball camera gives a full 360-view of you nervously throwing it in the air (video) — Engadget
Is that not the coolest thing ever? This ball contains 36 phone cameras pointed in different directions. When you throw it in the air, each camera takes a photo at the same time at the peak its arc. Using special software, you can then view the full panorama.
If it streamed the video somewhere, that’d be even cooler. Overlooking cost, what if you dropped it off a cliff or something. How awesome would that be? Or you could throw it around at a concert. Hell, you could just throw it at your roommate’s head. I want one.
Amazon’s Tablet Announcements
Live from Amazon’s tablet event in NYC! — Engadget
Exciting news for mobile computing fans.
Kindle Touch – Seems to be designed to compete with the Nook Simple Touch. No keyboard but touchscreen and definitely appears to be e-ink. It’s $99 for the regular and $149 for the 3G version that works in 100 countries. Time to enable 3G, Barnes & Noble? Also, people can choose to pay $40 less for the same thing or $10 more for 3G compared to Nook. That makes me sad. Price drop time?
Kindle – This seems to be an entry-level device. It has no touchscreen but, of course, has buttons, and only costs $79. I don’t see why people wouldn’t want to drop an extra $20 for the Touch, but whatever.
Kindle Fire – A Nook Color ripoff! How surprising! It’s a 7″ Android tablet for $199. There wasn’t a mention of how much of the Android OS you can reach. In other words, really a Nook Color ripoff! Again, it’s cheaper though, so I suspect we’ll see a price drop from Barnes & Noble. I look forward to their response!
Stupid Algorithm Prices Book
Digital Life – How a book about flies cost $23.7 million on Amazon by Rosa Golijan
The book was priced at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping)!
Two competitors on Amazon used algorithms to price books based on competitors. Unfortunately, the algorithms weren’t very smart, and the books became priced in the millions.
The Scale of the Universe
HTwins.net – The Scale of the Universe
Very cool interactive flash page showing the scale of everything in the Universe.
iPhone Alarms Fail 1/1 and 1/2
iPhone alarm not working leads Apple fans to oversleep post-New Year’s
Apple fans started the New Year with a bit of a hangover after a software glitch caused the iPhone’s alarm function to stop working.
Now I know why my alarm didn’t go off this morning at all. Apparently after the New Year, alarms stopped working on the iPhone. Apple claims they’ll work starting on the 3rd, and that it was a problem only with the 1st and 2nd. Weird. Too bad I didn’t read this last night, because I was about 20 minutes late to work today after oversleeping by an hour and a half.