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Standing tall, standing cheap

February 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

In the ever constant pressure to cut costs, I’m sure my company will be examining this innovation: The Hip Office:

With this, we can drastically reduce the amount of square footage per employee, as well as eliminating any need for expensive office chairs and desk systems.
I think the only issue holding up deployment is that laptops [...]

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Tags: Corporate Life · Gadgets

Innovating the obvious

March 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

I had the pleasure of renting a car that had the most useful high-tech gadget I’ve seen in a car in a long time. Or more precisely, most useful gadget on a car stereo: a line-in jack on the front panel.
You’d think that after almost a decade of portable electronic audio gear, and years of [...]

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Tags: Gadgets · Stupidity

Word of the day

March 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

zom•ber•ry (zŏm bĕ-rē‘)
n., pl. -ries.

A person who shuffles along, getting in the way of other people, oblivious to the world around them, while they use their Blackberry or other PDA.

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Tags: Funny · Gadgets

Casing it

February 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

For Christmas, my wife gave me a very beautiful Ted Baker leather case for my 5G iPod. I had been using my older iPod case with it, but it was much too big, and the viewing window in the case was too small.
At first the only issue I had with the case was the covering [...]

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Tags: Gadgets · iPod

On the small screen, the very small screen

January 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

After poo-pooing the idea of watching video on an iPod, I finally changed my mind and was the lucky recipient of an 80GB iPod for my past birthday. With the help of Handbrake and iSquint, I can rip DVDs and torrented movie files of things that Conny View definition in a new window doesn’t want to watch and consume them [...]

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Tags: Culture · Gadgets · TV