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Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Better Sound From Your Laptop

Better sound on your laptop. The sound card on your laptop is probably crap. For most people it doesn't really matter, but anyone who wants to hear what they're missing should check out the 24-bit, 96KHz Indigo PCMCIA soundcard from Echo Digital Audio. Geek.com has a glowing review: "The best and cleanest sound you'll get out of your laptop." Read [Thanks, Dan!]... [Gizmodo]
9:41:54 PM

2002 PDA Review

2002 PDA Review

http://brighthand.com/article/Year_in_Review_2002

9:34:42 PM

GPS Tablet PC Multimedia Storytelling

GPS stories. The Tablet PC has only been out for a month, and already people have figuring out an interesting new use for it: geographically-based multimedia storytelling. Go to latitude 34 North and and longitude 118 West in Los Angeles with a GPS-enabled Tablet PC, where a group of artists have created a "GPS Controlled Interactive Narrative." Depending on where you are and how you move about the site, you experience the story in different ways: "GPS tracks your location and determine how the story is delivered. The landscape becomes the interface. Every version is rendered in real-time, according to your pattern of movement." Read [Via Fimoculous]... [Gizmodo]
9:31:10 PM

Picks from Best Products of 2002

Picks from Best Products of 2002

Business Week's Best Products of 2002

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_50/b3812010.htm

I checked out their list, and here are my picks from it:

the 350Z from Nissan:

http://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/ModelHomePage/0,,23261,00.html

Epson Stylus Photo 2200:

7-Color UltraChrome™ inks and individual ink cartridges
2880 x 1440 dpi resolution with ultra- fine 4-picoliter droplets
Borderless photo printing with roll paper
Roll paper holder and automatic cutter
USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), and Parallel connectivity
You can print up to 13x44"

http://www.epson.com

The Onkey Karoke Mike

http://www.imnsongs.com/431801/TopSongs.aspx

You can buy this a Walmart, and download songs to your wireless mike, and then sing through your stereo.

Think that is about all I thought was neat from the Business Week Best of 2002

9:28:59 PM