iphone dj mixer

Digital wheels of steel? Nothing compares to spinning vinyl but these look cool.

ravage USB

Ravage (of the transformers) has been reinvented into a usb flash drive. My favorite transformer as a kid was Soundwave and all of his transforming cassettes - including the dog ravage.

nintendo nes controller mouse

this needs to go into production

1970s Japanese electronics

Check out the spaceage tv set. I love looking at old electronics.

celebrity twitter ecosystem

Pretty cool graphic in NYT.

tesla model s electric sedan

This is a nice looking electric car. Plus it has a huge touchscreen in the dash. Interface is a little clumsy but I like the features.

twouble with twitters

adidas urban art guide for iphone

Featuring the city of Berlin. Cool if they expand into other cities. Preview video here.

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont is a cool iPhone app that can identify fonts that may allude the internal font library in your brain. Ok, maybe that's just me. But I've had an interest in typography since childhood. All you have to do is take a photo of the font in question and the app will recognize individual letters and identify it. Its most effective when the text is clear with high contrast definition.

apple evolution

30 years of Apple products. I remember my dad buying that old Apple IIc.

wii hacked

Johnny Lee hacks a $40 Nintendo Wii controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. Mostly by adding a $10 piece of hardware to it. Amazing stuff!

coffee table NES

bobbing for Apple

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format wars

Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks just announced that they will support only HD DVD format and dump Blu-ray. Many insiders had thought Blu-ray (with backing from PS3 and Fox) was winning the format war until this announcement. Both will probably be rendered obsolete by online downloading anyway. Remind anyone of that VHS vs Beta war of the 80's?

















Betamax was actually technically superior but lost the war because of marketing, licensing issues and tape length. While its quality was inferior, VHS marketed its longer tape lengths (3hrs vs Beta's 1hr) as the premier advantage in recording TV programs and movies. The VHS format was cheaper to manufacture and its backers moved faster to secure licenses and released more movies to capitalize on the rental tape boom. Beta moved too slowly on these fronts and conceded defeat in the late 80's.

So our household was left with piles of useless Beta tapes filled with sporting events, concerts, music videos and movies taped off of SuperTV (remember that bootleg form of cable TV?). Maybe experiences with Beta and SuperTV left my dad gunshy with trying new technology. When I helped him buy a new home computer a couple years ago, I suggested an iMac. But he was fearful that Macs would be obsolete and were only good for artists and teachers. This was in the middle of the iPod boom and Mac resurgence. It was '05 not '95. I relented and got him a serviceable PC ... at least I finally got him to use a digital camera last christmas!

I love seeing old and obsolete electronics and gadgets. Last year while cleaning out the house, I found the first cellphone that I ever used. So ancient and so cool! I would love to see an actual exhibit of old cellphones, VHS/Betamax players (top loading decks were charming), game systems, 8-track players etc. I've wasted way too much time on the internet looking up old technology like this.

iphone-mania

I don't have $600 burning a hole in my pocket. And I make it a rule not to buy first generation gadgetry. So I'm not infected with iphone-mania. Can't believe people are waiting overnight and all day outside a store for a phone. Check out Mayor John Street of Philly camping out in a lawn chair outside a store waiting for his iphone at 5am!! Forget addressing the record breaking murder rate in the city, he's getting his iphone. At least he's not butting in line - he's waiting with the common folk. That's a real mayoral look.

internet love