Archive for the ‘consumer’ Category
“Cingular-only” Shock Syndrome is wearing off, albeit slowly. I’m still embarrassingly depressed over it. I’ve never had a gadget make me so emo. What makes it even more depressing is that early rumors about the Gadget-that-won’t-be-mentioned (GTWBM) claimed that Apple and T-Mobile were extremely close to inking a deal, but at the last minute the [...]
Cingular only. Words cannot describe the depth of my misery.
This is what steevak.com looks like on the Nintendo Wii: Nothing remarkable yet, but Internet on the Wii is still in trial version. I’m sure this will be exploited well by both Nintendo and other parties (like this which makes the Wii a media center). It is pretty cool surfing YouTube and Google Video from [...]
Shameless plug for my Amazon wishlist. Look at all the fun items! Remember, the Season is all about the giving! So, I’ll take one for the team and do all the receiving while everybody else does all the giving. You can send me a thank you card for that selfless little bit right there too.
I’ve mentioned several times that I’m a big fan of alternative energy, particularly in cars, and after reading about the Tesla roadster I’m even more excited: I’ve always marveled at how long the antique internal-combustion engine has survived. By 2006 standards, my car’s power plant is a noisy, heat-blasting, poison-spewing monster with way too many [...]
Last Sunday, I purchased a Nintendo Wii. The Wii is Nintendo’s next-generation console (soon to be last-generation) that is going head to head with the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Like those other consoles, anticipation for it is high, though not nearly as hyped up and overblown as the Playstation 3, so a couple of [...]
Behold, the coming future of mobile wireless technology: WiBro. My nerd juices are flowing: . . . the company showed off 4G’s nomadic speed of 1Gbps data transmissions inside the forum venue with simultaneous 32HD channel broadcast (20Mpbs) downloads, Internet access, and video telephony. Furthermore, a 3.5Gbps data transfer demonstration using 8×8 MIMO (multi-input multi-output) [...]
This sounds almost too good to be true. A British engineering firm has put together a high-performance hybrid version of BMW’s Mini Cooper. The PML Mini QED has a top speed of 150 mph, a 0-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds. The car uses a small gasoline engine with four 160 horsepower electric motors — [...]
Slate has a fun article on the collapse of the baseball card industry. (via Volokh) I thought this paragraph was insightful: It’s easy to blame card companies and “the hard-core collector” for spoiling our fun. But I’ll admit that even before the proliferation of pricey insert cards, I was buying plastic, UV-ray-protectant cases for my [...]
It arrived! Here it is next to a 15″ Powerbook: Sorry for the cruddy quality of the pics. I blame my camera phone and low light.
