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Look Ma, top of the world…
Hell, this getting to be a regular thing. And its getting to sound like we know what we’re talking about.
I know its only our opinions, and they’re as biased as anyone else’s. But it feels good to get that opinion out there. So, never mind the quality, feel the width.
This week the stories that have been vexing us are…
CD’s are 30 years old – The venerable Compact Disc has reached a milestone that Blu-ray, hell any other physical media, seems unlikely to reach.
Mobile phone ‘botnets’ coming to a mobile near you – The hackers are after your smartphone, well the Sybian ones for now, and they won’t stop until they have them. Faced with this dire threat, we discuss what it means for the iPhone, I mean come on…
iPhone software 3.0 – It was the obvious next thing to talk about, so what the hell, we did. What’s coming, what would we like to see coming?
New iPod shuffle – It talks to you through the headphones. How long till you’re massacring your family Amityville style?
Mimi switch. – It reads your facial expressions to control your devices. Wink to play a track, wink twice to skip a track. Wink three times and become real friendly with the big guy in the corner.
Brain scanners that know where you’ve been – At last some research with an instant practical application. You’ll never lose your keys again.
Windows 7 IE may use ‘multi-touch’ – Multi-touch is everywhere, it will be interesting to see if you can use your own fingers. Or if you have to use MS standard fingers?
Adamo by Dell – Having reached the for lowest price, damn the quality. Dell go after the ‘unibody’ Macbooks. They may be in the gutter but they’re looking at the stars. Failing that Mike could sell the company and give money back to the shareholders.
What is Wolfram/Alpha? – Is it a nascent Skynet, will it become self aware and launch its missiles. Or will it live up to the hype, and turn out to be really useful. Its not a search engine, its an answer engine. Got a question, don’t Google it, and do all the boring research yourself. Wolfram/Alpha will go through the knowledge on the internet and give you the answer, maybe?
Battery that charges in seconds – Those clever MIT guys are at it again. This time they’re going to save our wonderful mobile devices from the hours they spend chained to the power socket.
And so you have Episode 3 of Killing pixels…
