Gadgets

• February 5, 2007Gadgets, general, Hardware

  “The Last Mile” on the cheap

  The Last Mile problem is a well known issue in wireless broadband circles. Running between, say, cities is easy… getting it the last mile to individual houses is hard. Most […]

• January 21, 2007Gadgets, general

  Virtual Chumby

  Some Sunday fun while I am editing the audio. I came across the Virtual Chumby which isn’t going to hold me over to the physical product in the spring quarter, […]

• January 15, 2007Gadgets, general

  Apparently John Dvorak Agrees With Us

  If you listened to this week’s podcast, you heard us talk about CES and MacWorld. John Dvorak reached the same conclusions we reached in our discussion. This, of course, means […]

• January 14, 2007Gadgets, general, Navigation

  Pocket media player

  It appears that in general there is a new device type that is running on Windows CE that is built for media. Sandisk’s Sansa® View features a 4 inch screen […]

• January 10, 2007Gadgets, general

  World without ‘mobile’

  This week’s happy moment brought to you by the letters M, L, and W. We now have access to great mobile devices such as the OQO Model 2, the ‘soon’ […]

• January 9, 2007Gadgets, general

  Multitouch on a phone and maps

  Ed has already posted on Geophoto. But even better is the iPhone, which is cooler than I could have suspected. Completely touch screen, full OS X (more or less), great […]

• January 8, 2007Gadgets, general, Navigation

  Pharos GPS Phone 600

  The folks over at Pharos are showing the GPS Phone 600 which looks nice, but there wasn’t too many details on the CrunchGear post, and I haven’t had time to […]

• January 8, 2007Gadgets, general

  OQO Model 02

  I have drooled over the original OQO since before the term UMPC existed. Now with the announcement (and video over at Engadget) of the OQO model 2 I am going […]

• January 7, 2007Gadgets, general

  Our first CES note for 2007

  Welcome LG to the location based party as they release 4 GPS based navigation systems. Just the tip of the CES iceberg I am sure. CrunchGear » Blog Archive » […]

• January 7, 2007Gadgets, general, Hardware

  Starting MacWorld early

  Other World Computing put out a teaser for their product the ModBook that will be announced Tuesday. It is supposed to be a slate style tablet solution that will even […]