Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

“Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?” ..Leia

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Danny Choo is a self propelled hype machine. How does one generate 3 million UNIQUE visitors in 1 month?! Looks like the secret is deftly mixing the pop culture past, the pop tech future, and his love for the international language of dance.
Tokyo Dance Trooper
Tokyo Dance Trooper in Shibuya
iphone 3g trooper
Joshk

unknown horror

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

If there was ever a reason to buy a Zune, this is it…..
Link via Engadget.

gadget of the year!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the [...]

vacuum tube amps conference and show

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Vacuum State of the Art Conference and Show May 24th - 26th, Vancouver, WA. As the name implies what we have here is a show that celebrates the vacuum tube driven amps over their solid state second cousins. [Audiofiles will get that last part.] I’m a supporter, give me a record deck and a tube [...]

newkrackle audio portland

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Cool stuff in the mailbox at Nemo today - that box pictured above. What I’d call the best business card yet, an audiobox from Jason Edwards at Newcrackle. Jason offers up sound design, foley and adr plus broadcast mixing. All your sound production needs in other words. More here including contact details.

TED: David Pogue medley

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

In this whimsical, satirical, and often corny medley, tech correspondent and New York Times columnist David Pogue takes on Apple, Steve Jobs, network TV, and the RIAA. Timely and funny stuff, if you can get past the aforementioned corn.

comcast movie service, the disruptive models move beyond music

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Comcast’s Fancast site
Back to business. The CES conference, brought to us by the Consumer Electronics Association, has been taking place all week in Las Vegas. It’s a gadget geek fest, no doubt. New products are rolled out to great fanfare…or not. I heard that one hit attraction was the Nemo-branded Blackbird gaming machine from HP. [...]

happy new year, where there’s hope there may be peace….

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Here’s a short story of hope and perhaps, good kharma. Last Friday I was riding at Mt Hood Meadows on a mountain that has received 10 and half feet of snow since around Christmas Eve. Conditions couldn’t have been better. I think I was on my fifth run of the day when my iPhone rang [...]