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Articles posted in March 2006.

Who would want an Origami?

March 31st, 2006

The general reaction to the Origami Ultra Mobile PC has been pretty negative. The biggest point being made is that it’s a format that has no purpose in anyone’s lifestyle, especially the target market who already has laptops, cell phones, PDAs and Tablet PCs. Well, I think there are good uses for it, at least […]

Google time travel

March 18th, 2006

A Google Image Search has sent me into the future of NEC technologies. Upon closer examination, the Internet Archive shows this area of the NEC Design Japanese website was originally launched in 2003 to show “Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.”
Some of the potential products described are pretty interesting. The mobile phone and the […]

What you should know about HDMI

March 12th, 2006

Recently, people have been hearing that their HDTVs are going to become obselete because of HDMI. This article should clear things up a bit.
Visit this page for more info on HDMI along with links to some recent news articles.

This year’s Oscars and more reasons why not to see movies in theaters

March 8th, 2006

The goal of this year’s 78th Annual Academy Awards was to keep things classy and show that the award show hasn’t lost touch with today’s movie-goers. The results however, were the complete opposite: an inappropriate host, poor choices for Oscar winners and pleading to movie-goers to see movies in theaters.
Let’s start with the host, Jon […]