Sony CFD-A110 Boom Box, the final device from Sony with cassette player It’s not enough for Sony to kill off the floppy disk today. The Japanese manufacturer is also bidding adieu to another legendary format: the cassette tape. What you see here is the last cassette-playing boom box ever.
I remember when I was able to store just about every document that I ever wanted on a single 1.44MB floppy disk. That was a very long time ago and I don’t know anyone who still uses the format. Well, Sony seems to think so too, because it just killed the floppy disk. Other manufacturers have long since abandoned the file saving format, but Sony stuck around and kept making new disks… until now
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RIP the floppy disk: Sony finally kills legendary format
Apple iPod with integrated 2.0 megapixel camera For the longest time, there were only a handful of things that separated the iPod touch from the Apple iPhone. The cellular connectivity is an obvious one, but it seems that one of the other differentiating factors is also going to be removed. According to the most recent leaks spewing from Apple and out of Vietnam , the upcoming fourth-generation iPod touch will boast a two-megapixel digital camera. Up until now, the iPod touch has been lacking in the photography department, so this is probably a good change for the better
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Apple iPod touch 4G with 2-megapixel camera “leaked”
Urbancase transformer desk Life is about balance, especially if you work from home it can be very difficult to separate the work world from the play world; so it’s best if you can put work out of sight and out of mind. Urbancase can help. They have designed a clever transformer desk that can jut out from your bedroom wall.
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Urbancase Transformer Desk hides your computer
Clark Harris (aka @SilentClark ) is only speaking using social media for the month of May in an effort to raise awareness and money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of his mother. Is it possible in today’s world of social media to more effectively raise money and create awareness for a cause online versus traditional methods?
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Can One Man Communicate Solely Through Social Media for a Month?
Sony Ericsson have confirmed that an update of Apple-like proportions will bring all new functionality to their flagship Xperia X10 Android smartphone , chief amongst these an upgrade to 720p HD Video capture ! Not too long ago, we were told by a Sony Ericsson rep that a “ big update ” would be hitting the X10 in the second half of the year, bringing with it Android v2.1 and support for multi-touch. This latest news, which comes courtesy of Sony Ericsson’s official blog , reveals that Android 2.1has also been confirmed for later this year though unfortunately there is no mention of multi-touch for the touchscreen
One of the most compelling chapters [in my opinion] of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution focuses on How to Recognize The Future When It Lands On You . Long time friend of SmartMobs Jamais Cascio , who spends much time pondering upon the future, had delivered an incredibly inspiring talk at the Lift Conference last week
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#Lift10: Jamais Cascio – Wired for Anticipation
Nokia were quite late to join the 8.0 Megapixel party with the Nokia N86 8MP and whilst the Symbian slider was one of the best camera phones we’d seen, other manufacturers were already breaking new ground in image resolution and video capture. Now, once again Nokia are set to launch their first entrant in the 12 Megapixel space whilst two of their key rivals, Samsung and Sony Ericsson , have both had 12 Megapixel camera phones on the market for over 6 months. Of course, the N8 has some key advantages over its rivals (HD Video/ HDMI output/ all new Symbian OS) but how does the still camera measure up?
The New York Times has a round-up article about cellphone use today titled: Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls . It includes some details around several areas of this basic expansion of smart mobby behavior: For many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much
President Obama delivered the commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia Full text of the speech of President Obama. Notice the smartmobby remarks the President made, bemoaning the fact that “some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,” in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets: And meanwhile, you’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter
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Obama: iPod And XBox ‘Distraction’ Hard On Democracy
Whitehouse Released Open Source Code — four modules for Drupal with features the White House needed, including integration with the Akamai CDN.
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Four short links: 22 April 2010 – Whitehouse Source, Hot Android on iPhone Action, Geomapping, Open Data Fights Fraud
Measured in terms of number of titles, half of the over 46,000 (paid and free) books available that we detected as being offered through the iBooks app are from 6 categories1. Fiction & Literature alone account for close to a third of all available iBooks titles: The current set of titles is indicative of the publishers (and/or imprints) that Apple…
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A few weeks in, a third of iPad Books are Fiction
Suggestions to my previous post inspired me to normalize our metadata1 for titles available through the U.S. iBooks app. A comment prompted me to rollup iBooks publishers into publishing conglomerates2: Comments from other readers gave me the idea to map the 100+ iBooks categories to the more familiar BISAC categories.
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Actually, half of all iPad Books are Fiction
zxing — barcode library for iPhone, Android, Java, and more. Guido’s Python — how the compiler and interpreter see your Python programs. It wasn’t until I had this level of knowledge of Perl that I really know what the hell I was doing.
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Four short links: 10 May 2010 – Barcodes, Python’s Innards, Informed Elections, and Data Literacy
This post was mentioned on Twitter by toddogasawara. toddogasawara said: More testing blogging from just the iPad & digital camera:iPad Camera Connection Kit & Tilt Shift Generator App http://bit.ly/cdCW6s
Samsung Rant on Boost Mobile I’m still partial to having a true smartphone these days, but there are many other people who are more interested in cheaper messaging phones with full QWERTY keyboards. If that sounds like you, Boost Mobile has you covered with the Samsung Rant. If you’re thinking that this phone looks a lot like the Samsung Gravity , you’re not alone.
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Boost Mobile slips you the Samsung Rant
Just because you want to have an unlimited plan doesn’t mean that you have to break the bank. This comes from an unverified source, but it seems that Virgin Mobile is about to unleash one of the cheapest “unlimited” plans that I have seen for some time. How cheap
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New $25 unlimited plan coming to Virgin Mobile?
Old Schol Mac to iPad conversion Photo: Flickr Do you happen to have some old computer gear kicking around collecting dust? Do you want to find some fascinating new use for it that would resurrect it into the 21st century?
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Old school Mac gutted and resurrected with the Apple iPad
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 mobile scanner Photo: Mobile Magazine With a small but steadily growing population of the computing force being Mac users, it’s nice to see Fujitsu thinking of us by offering a serious mobile scanning hardware solution. The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 is just under $300, and will appeal not only by Mac users, but any mobile professional serious about document processing. The S1300 is silver and gray. It folds down nicely in to a compact 11.18 x 3.90 x 3.03 inches and weighs in at 3.08 lbs. It’s a little bit thick at 3.03-inches, but will fit in to larger laptop bags, perhaps even a large briefcase.
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Review: Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 mobile scanner
Plustek MobileOffice AD450 Scanner Photo: Mobile Magazine Plustek has been manufacturing digital imaging products since the mid-80s. Their latest group of scanners are part of the Mobile Office line, the one we are looking at today: the Plustek MobileOffice AD450 . An automatic document feeder (ADF) scanner capable of 600 DPI resolution and 20 sheet capacity
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Review: Plustek MobileOffice AD450 scanner