Apple tracks your iPhone usage?
It looks like Apple is keeping good track of what kind of applications you use on your iPhone as they send your iPhones individual IMEI nu,ber when you use applications like ‘weather or stocks‘. I honestly think that this is just some kind of debugging information that Apple is sending along with the requests to track down eventual problems, but you never know…
Panasonic DMC-L10 - review
Five days ago we unboxed the DMC-L10, and now I have spent some more days with Panasonics new digital SLR DMC-L10. The camera is meant to compete with the Canon EOS 40D and the Nikon D200 in the mid segment, and technically the camera is a pretty good choice.
Electronic paper from Seiko Epson
There has been a lot of buzz about electronic paper for the last couple of years but no products have been produced in any significant volumes. That might change with this new thin display from Seiko Epson which measures 6.7 inches and has a resolution of 1600 x 1200 which equals a 230 dots per inch (about 3 times higher than a traditional LCD screen). The panel is only 3 millimeters thin and can show 1400 pages on a single charge.
Free WiFi in midtown Manhattan
Thanks to CBS you can access free wireless Internet in midtown Manhattan. To be able to use it you have to go through a CBS landing page and that is why they are trying this out. If it’s a success we will see a dramatic increase in free WiFi in the near future.
TuneBuds - now in six colors
My favorite earphone in the budget segment is Griffin’s TuneBuds, the earphones are simply put very good value for your money ($19). I just got the information that they will roll out the TuneBuds in six new colors: red, light blue, light green, blue, silver, and pink. The TuneBuds are shipping now so they should be available in your local store within a week or two.
Measure the temparature via USB
If you are interested in monitoring the exact temperature somewhere via a computer you might be interested in this USB thermometer from Brando. The unit can read temperatures between -20 to +100 degrees Celsius and you get a monitoring program that logs the actual temperature in a set interval that you choose (from every second to everyy 12th hour). The price tag reads $19.
Cool down your warm beer in seconds
Homer Simpson would kill for this new invention created by the 22-year old Kent Hodgson. It can transform a warm beer into a freezing cold beer in just a few seconds. The product is currently just a concept product, but it works and Kent is trying to get it patented in as many markets as possible and get it into production. With a bit of luck I guess that Kend Hodgson doesn’t need to do so many more inventions in his life to live a happy life…
Turn Warm Beer to Ice Cold Beer in Seconds; Without Ice!
Where the sun don’t shine…
If you ever been wondering about what places on earth have sunlight at any given point, you shall remember this cool site. They provide you with an instant world sunlight map where you can see where the sun is shining. Nice!
Nokia N82
I really hope that Nokia will stop calling their phones multimedia computers because they are pretty far from being what I consider a multimedia computer, but the new Nokia N82 looks like it can be a pretty good phone. The phone features a 5 megapixel camera with optics from Carl Zeiss and a xenon flash (no optical zoom yet though), GPS and Wi-Fi. The price in Europe will be €450 (roughly $650). More photos and press release inside.
Sandisk Vaulter Disk
Vaulter Disk is a new integrated storage-solution without moving parts from Sandisk. It is meant to tag-team with the hard drive to give you better performance. The new disk will be available early next year in a 8GB- and a 16GB-version. They don’t say what kind of performance increases you can get from the Vaulter disk though. Full press release inside.
