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Leapfrog making a toy Blackberry

January 30, 2009 Kids

I am not sure what to make of this. I’m all for making toys realistic and all but working at Nokia, we’re all about trying to make mobile mobile devices more playful and fun. So it’s weird to see a Leapfrog making a toy phone more, um, business-like.

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5 Uses for Low Cost GPS Tracking

December 10, 2008 Web/Tech

With low cost GPS tracking devices, it is now make it economically feasible to electronically “tag” people and things that you love. A couple of examples:

Lobster Pots
Celebrities such as Simon Cowell
The baby Jesus statue in the nativity
Your pet dog
Lingerie???

But no one has come up with the most obvious application suggested to me by Yahoo [...]

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Realtime Map Tracking

August 24, 2007 Maps

Maybe it’s the air traffic controller in me but there’s something oddly compelling about watching little dots move across the screen when you know they represent objects in the physical world.
TechCrunch posts about Bill from BitGravity is streaming his driving trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles over a live video stream showing the traffic [...]

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For the Prankster’s Toolkit

July 31, 2007 Web/Tech

How would you like to edit any web page as if it were a wiki?
Here’s a little Javascript trick that has helped me mock up prototypes as well as spice up the odd presentation with improbable news headlines for dramatic effect.
Copy and paste the following line into the address bar of your browser,
javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void [...]

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Robots!

June 17, 2007 Web/Tech

At the Robogames in San Francisco I got to see Zou Ren Tii’s Body Double robot. Can you tell which one is the robot?
More photos from the day here.

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Microsoft Surface, Minority Report realized

May 30, 2007 Web/Tech

I saw and blogged about an early prototype of this device back when I saw it demoed at eTech last year. It blew people away back then and is even more impressive today. The video below shows some new enhancements such as the ability to drag photos from a digital camera to the table for [...]

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FlipFrames launches

May 4, 2007 Web/Tech

Congratulations Dave, Aaron, and Josh!

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Blades of Glory Japan Style – A Robot that Skates!

April 9, 2007 Web/Tech

Fresh out of the labs in Osaka, a robot that can skate! Check out the Akazawa Plen website gallery page for videos of Desktop Hobby Robot Plen on a skateboard as well. Bluetooth-enabled and on sale now for $2,400.
Thanks to AI & Robotics blog for the pointer.

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reinvigorate.net – shiny new stats app reborn

February 8, 2007 Web/Tech

I’m a bit of a stats nerd so I was quite pleased to see that a longtime favorite hosted stats package came back to life after going dark over a year ago. Reinvigorate.net has been reborn from the ashes and is now hosted by the fine folks over at mediatemple which should be able to [...]

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Sure the iPhone looked cool but at least you could touch this interface

January 12, 2007 Web/Tech

We all gawked at the hermetically sealed display of the iPhone at the recent MacWorld show but the Smart Board was one of the cooler things I saw. Basically it was like a huge touchscreen display that your could write on with digital ink.

I’ve seen these used on CNN and ESPN but this was the [...]

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