Mat Honan is at CES. Do not miss this stream of consciousness post about his day. Gadgets!
Don’t you wish you had this list before you went shopping this Christmas? Easily one of my favorite sites of 2011. Wirecutter is the place I go first for researching stuff I might buy.
I am seriously not into wands 'n shit, but I love the creativity behind turning a wand into a remote control by programming gestures into the thing so you can control your TV.
[via fresh arrival]
Leonard writes the sort of update I wanted to write after my time with the Android phone. Unfortunately, I didn't make it that far with the Android G1, but now I'm thinking of giving the Pre a chance.
I had switched to a Google G1 "Dream" phone for a month. I felt like writing about it.
I give up. I thought it'd be fun to see what life was like on a different platform but I think I've seen more than enough on this hardware. The device is definitely too slow to get anything done and I have found myself not going to the phone when in a situation where I used to check my mail and catch up on Twitter. I stood in line at the ATM and just didn't bother.
I have switched to a Google G1 "Dream" phone for a month. I feel like writing about it.
My friend Omar pointed me to an excellent review of the iPhone and Android keyboards side-by-side. It's a great examination of the differences and the conclusion is spot on.
I have switched to a Google G1 "Dream" phone for a month. I feel like writing about it.
One thing I didn't anticipate having with the G1 and Android was the ability to run arbitrary applications in the background. The iPhone runs a few select applications behind the scenes: email silently synchronizes, your calendars and contacts can synchronize with Mobile Me, and of course there's the new feature in 3.0 that allows applications to push data to your phone in the form of alerts. Really good stuff, but it would be nice if some of my most used iPhone applications didn't have to unpack their previous state every time I switched to the app.
I have switched to a Google G1 "Dream" phone for a month. I feel like writing about it.
Before the iPhone arrived I was a very happy Ericsson k750i user. It was fast, I was pretty good with the number pad, and Google Reader worked really well on it. The coolest thing it did was in-camera photo stitching (example 1, example 2) and the damn thing had a 2MP camera that also shot video. Oh and computer tethering worked right out of the box. This was early 2007.
Finally, a cotton candy machine for your home! I have no idea how cotton candy machines work, but this one takes hard candy and spins it into cotton. Unbelievable. [via ohgizmo]
Finally, video of the Optimus Maximus keyboard functioning.
Entirely useless product, but terribly cool.