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Anand Agarawala BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess

Video: TedTalks via YouTube

Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, possibly the next evolutionary jump for the user interface, instead of a mundane 2D desktop we may have a more visceral 3D desktop.

With a pinch of Newtonian physics, icons can be easily resized and the options of file organization becomes more practical, in a sense more ‘real’… I like it.

Delete Cookies

Photo: jeremygaddis.com

The Cookie Monster is really the inventor of the http cookie. He stores them on everyones machne and then hacks into your computer to eat them.

Website: Delete Cookies at jeremygaddis.com

Vista True Info Video

Video: Metacafe

This is so funny, but what is not so funny is that it is so close to the truth that it’s not so funny after all. I think I just said funny too many times. Oh well, getalookat the video and see if you think it’s funny too.

David Pogue When it comes to tech, simplicity sells

Video: VideoEgg

A phrase we’ve all heard is ‘Tech support’, but it’s support for techs, not the average Joe or Joeann… if your not tech savvy they seem to be speaking in tongs, you sort of recognize most words, but it’s like they pulled them out of a hat or something, and then, just to make sure you’ve got no chance of understanding… they send you to India or the Philippines, forcing you to speak to someone who’s accent is sooo bad, you got no chance of understanding their basic English, yet alone their technobabel.

Now considering you were probably suffering from ’software rage’, before you resorted to the last resort, they then put on hold… don’t you just hate that. What ever happened to KISS? Why do they get geeks to explain geeky things in technobabel? What ever happened to plain English? What ever happened to Service? You bought their software, surely decent service is not too much to expect? But no, if you ring Microsoft, the first thing they ask for is your credit card number, a sort of wham bam thank you mam, no foreplay no pillow talk just give us ya money, and this from one of the supposed riches companies… and who else but Microsoft would call their off button ‘Start’?

1GB Camcorder Pen

Photo: geekalerts.com

Need to do some surveillance work? This “secret agent pen” may be just what you need! The pen has a built in camcorder and can store the video footage with audio on it’s 1GB of flash memory.

The pen can easily sit in your shirt pocket and is perfect for recording confessions, interviews and secret rendezvous. Just what every aspiring James Bond needs for their repertoire.

Photo: geekalerts.com

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R2-D2 Digital Projector & R2-D2 Wireless Webcam

Video: YouTube

Well I don’t know about you ‘guys’, but I love it.

R2-D2 Digital Projector

PROJECT ANY DIGITAL MEDIA

Project any digital media up to 260 inches onto wall or ceilings. R2-D2 lets you play DVDs,&CDs with his own built in player. You can connect external devices though video directly from memory cards, USB Flash Drives, or using an iPod dock R2-D2 supports the following formats: DVD-Video, DVD, DVD/R/RW, VCD, SCVD, Audio CD, CD-R/RW, WMA, mp3, mp4, DivX3.0-5.03 and jpeg.

BUILT-IN 20W SPEAKER SYSTEM!

Stereo and surround sound can be enjoyed through R2-D2’s built in 20W speaker system. R2 also has wireless FM out, so you can transmit sound through your home entertainment system.

PROJECT TO CEILINGS!

This amazing droid can even recline to project to your ceiling! Just move him into position, and using the Millennium Falcon remote control, you can adjust R2-D2 to recline and project to the ceiling.

This product ships only in the Continental U.S. Due to extra shipping charges, HI and AK customers must phone in to place order at 1-800-776-4556. Price $2,900.00

R2-D2 Wireless Webcam

The R2-D2 Wireless Webcam with Skype can be activated from anywhere in the world via the internet, and is fully functional: R2 can go forward, reverse, and turn 360 degrees.

The 2.0 zoon leans has a 62 degree vertical adjust. Using the IP address interface controls, you can move him around in your home and check things while your away.

What a great idea for a Nanny-Cam! R2-D2 even looks like a toy you would have in a kid’s room.

Imagine checking in on the nursery anytime you want, from anywhere you have internet access. You can even talk to the kids remotely using the built-in speaker on R2.

R2-D2 can also record video and take snapshots. He will store them in a designated folder on your hard disk for viewing later.

Lightsaber IP Phone!

R2-D2 comes with Anakin Skywalkers Lightsaber, which is the remote control for home use. But, not is the Lightsaber R2s remote; it also is an IP phone using SKYPE software.

Website: Nikko

Embarrassing internal Microsoft Vista video

Video: YouTube

This attempt to use Bruce Springsteen’s name to enhance the popularity of Windows Vista is so embarrassing. Microsoft should stick to making their software and doing a better job of it, maybe they will start doing this right for all of their customers.

Transparent Screens

Photo: Flickr Set by w00kie

Transparent Screens like these have been around for a while now, Beam suggested the idea to me a few years back, I must get around to taking a photo of my desk so that I can try this on my laptop. Anyhow until I get around to it I just thought I’d post these here for anybody who hasn’t seen them before. For those of you that don’t know, the idea is to take a photo behind the screen and then adjust the size to suit so that it can fit as your desktop wallpaper and give the effect that your screen looks like it is see through.

Photo: Flickr Set by w00kie

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Scientists build first Memristor: Missing fourth electronic circuit element

In an exciting breakthrough, scientists from HP Labs have built working prototypes of a new electronic circuit component called a ‘Memristor’. The device may lead to instant-on PC’s and analog computers that act in the same way a human brain does.

Until recently the Memristor had only been described using mathematical equations written back in 1971 by engineering student Leon Chua. Although Chua knew this circuit element should exist, he was unable to come up with a physical manifestation of the component.

“Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to electrical circuit theory, one that will join the three better-known ones: the capacitor, resistor and the inductor.”

The researchers believe this discovery may be integral in the production of Instant-on PC’s and more energy efficient computers and even computers that act in the same way as the human brain.

See the full story at the website link below.

Website: Memristor

USB Cooling Fan

Video: Metacafe


Bummer, one of my pleasures when dealing with computer DVD writers and their planned obsolescence, is to take to them with a hammer when they die. Oh well, now I guess I’ll at least pull the motors out of them first… somehow I don’t think that will be quite as satisfying.

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