Results tagged “gadgets”

Amazon released an eBook reader today, it's three years in the making. They call it Kindle. Here's a big 'ol Newsweek piece about it.

Our daily drug of choice…

The best breakfast ever consists of a fried wedge of polenta, tangy black beans, a slice of avocado and a poached egg. All of these things are fairly easy to prepare; but when we come to the egg, we reach a bit of a snag. Poaching eggs seems intimidating. However, we contend that as with so many age-old processes for which we’ve invented “helpful” gadgets, poaching eggs only seems difficult because we’ve been told so.

At the risk of beating the pulp of the dead horse, Seattlest knows that many are still without power at home. We feel a little remiss in that all that we can do is sit around and post lame things about it when, instead, we should be going out there and doing something about it. Well, the problem is that we have a barbarian's understanding of electric fundamentals. Sure, sure. We can wire up 12 volt DC gadgets in our car; we can even wire some rudimentary circuits on the ol' 110 in the palatial estate. So perhaps it is more accurate to say that we have an educated barbarian's understanding of electricity.

Bill Gates made some interesting comments on Digital Rights Management in front of a group of bloggers today in Seattle. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and a room full of Mac laptop-wielding leading-blogger types got to chat with Gates on the subject of the approaching Mix Conference in Las Vegas, and one of the questions that was asked concerned the long-term viability of DRM. The Microsoft Zune has gotten a lot of criticism over its implementation of rights management, particularly in the way it "expires" previously free tracks that are transferred from one Zune to another as well as the Zune's departure from Microsoft's previous "Plays For Sure" rights management scheme.

Those beknighted souls with web-enabled cell phones will now get places faster than everyone else, because the Washington State DOT has created small screen versions of their wildly popular real-time traffic maps.

God was evidently too busy granting the prayers of this guy, or perhaps there is no God at all, as Shaun Alexander's foot is still broken.

What we wanted: a wagon. Preferably stick shift, but automatic would be OK. Remote door locks, air conditioning, leather seats (kids -- we prefer fabric, but we hear leather's much easier to clean), a CD player. We don't need lots of gadgets, but we'd play with 'em if we got 'em.

You know that five year-old Nokia candy bar we’ve been lugging around? Shocking, but it’s not Bluetooth-enabled!

It's no secret that you are likely to be recorded by security cameras just about anywhere you go in public in a metropolitan area. That's no secret, right? And it's not "the government" watching you on a flat panel display. It's more likely to be your friendly neighborhood retailers. Or the parking garage employees. Or, alright, the government.