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Category: Toys

  • Good enough, Near enough, again

    Back in April, I posted about a PCWorld article talking about how the future of computing might very well be “good enough” rather than working with “top of the line”. Today, I spotted an article, this time in Wired, talking about how the makers of the Flip cameras used the “good enough, near enough” model…

  • Giving up the hashtag

    A little while ago, I wrote about my hashtag, #yegruns and today I’m thinking that it’s about time to retire it. It was more work that it was worth to get it to be used by anyone and for a while, we had a couple of users, but that stopped over the summer. In that…

  • ‘net TV doesn’t have to look like the ‘net

    I remember at the start of the year saying that there would be many more “appliance like” electronics that would roll together many functions into one coming this year, and it seems that it is coming to pass. Either through the appliance (Samsung‘s TVs) or in the case of Verizon, through the network itself. Some…

  • Simple tech for the simple exercise

    The popularity of running seems to be increasing again – it seems to go up and down through the decades. One of the things that is likely helping out this time is a little bit of technology from Nike and Apple (or you can get the non iPod version of the sportband). Wired has an…

  • 3D projection comes to the classroom

    One of the ways that Hollywood is trying to fight piracy is to start making movies in 3D. These movies require specialized projection and of course those funny glasses. Thankfully the technology for the projection side of things and the glasses have both come a long way. Far enough that there is now a projector…