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27 Nov, 2006

256 GB on a piece of paper!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff| News

WOW!!! Talk about the future. You’ve got to read this article on a new storage mechanism allowing 256GB of data to be stored on a piece of paper. Read it here.

26 Nov, 2006

Halo 2 … Lego Style!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff| Fun| Gaming| Music & Video

Technorati Tags: Halo, Lego

30 Sep, 2006

Google Video Bar

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff| Programming & Development| Tutorials & Training

So you’ve seen the flickr bars for your site, allowing you to view a series of images in a row, now check out this tutorial from Google for making a video bar for your web site. Pretty cool. You can see it in action here.

Technorati Tags: Google, Video

20 Sep, 2006

Tickle Me Elmo … XTREME!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff

The new Tickle Me Elmo Ten Year Edition (X-treme) is out. Here are a couple vids.

12 Sep, 2006

Amazon Unbox … unboxed!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Apple/Macintosh| Cool Stuff| News

Amazon has now unveiled it’s eagerly anticipated “Unbox” service for viewing thousands of Movies, and TV shows on your computer and/or portable video device.  Although it’s touted as being an iTunes Video contender the service is only available on the PC.  I’m not certain how much of a contention it will be since iTunes directly links to the iPod and a lot of folks are using Macs with the iPod/iTunes combination (ugh …..  And besides, why can’t stuff come out on the Mac at the same time anyway…

31 Aug, 2006

SnowBoard + Skooter + 20MPH = BushPig

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff

Enter the Wheelman BushPig from ExtremeToysForBoys.com. I came across this while watching one of my new favorite shows, I Want That: Tech Toys (reminiscent of the old Tech TV show FreshGear) from HGTV. It’s like a motorized snowboard on wheels. What’s actually pretty interesting is that you step “into” the wheels. There’s a hand throttle [...]

22 Aug, 2006

New Touchpad Buttonless Cellphone!

Posted by: imarichardson In: Cool Stuff

So this has got to be one of the coolest phones you’ve ever seen!  It’s the Synaptics/Pilotfish ‘Onyx’ Touchscreen Phone.  It’s got no buttons or slots or sliding “thing-a-ma-bobers” - just one piece with a flatscreen touch sensitive interface.  It’s got all the coolness: MP3 Player, Personal Computing (Calendar, etc.), Camera, oh, and a phone, too!


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