It didn’t come as early as the 1970’s, but we NOW have wearable phones, if you count bluetooth headsets like the Jawbone pictured here. I personally don’t “wear” my phone, but there are plenty of people who do now. I used to look at the views of the future and be so excited about what my future would bring, but it never turns out like it did in the newsreels. Now that the future is here, I find myself looking at it and saying, “Meh…”
This headline might make you think that this is the perfect ringtone, but it isn’t. Here you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to make your own perfect ringtone for the iPhone.
The Gadgets Page sponsored a geek-together in Salt Lake City, called CodeAway. You can see the photos here:
We were able to try out the new MarioKart Wii. It turned out to be a fun game, even for people who had never played before and a challenging change for those old pros who had never played with the Wii Wheel.
A special thank you to Rocky Mountain Pizza for allowing us to invade their banquet room for four hours and play video games and eat lots of pizza!
NakedJen was so nice to come to the party. She’s a recent transplant to Utah from Santa Cruz. Kevin Fitzgerald just came to Utah from a small town near San Luis Obispo, so I sat him next to Jen so she could give him pointers on getting adjusted to Utah.
Here’s a self portrait of me with Jen.
Toward the end, we received a visit from our favorite tech recruiter, Robert Merrill!
Scott Lemon was streaming some of CodeAway live using his Nokia 75. It’s a great demonstration of Qik and the Nokia. The audio is kind of scratchy, but it gives you a good idea of the fun we were having:
Sheri took some photos as well. You can see them here:
If you live in the Utah area, you can find out about fun geeky events like this at CodeAway. It looks like the Gadgets Page is going to be sponsoring CodeAway for a while, so you can find out about all the fun after the party here!
The MacBook Air is pretty, it’s sexy, but it ISN’T a computer for me. I’ll stick with my plain ole’ MacBook until they can figure out how to make a MacBook Air with a DVD (or Blu-Ray) drive and maybe even a Express Card slot.
It looks like someone made this commercial for the Lenovo ThinkPad X300. With the same 64GB SSD drive, the Lenovo beats the price of the MacBook Air by about $400, but it’s processor is only 1.2 GHz instead of the 1.8 GHz that comes with the MacBook Air. It has 3 USB ports, but no optical drive, so it’s in the same category as the MacBook Air.
The commercial is a little misleading because they have so many things connected to the MacBook Air. Even the Lenovo ThinkPad would need a USB hub for all of those things. This commercial is funny, but the Lenovo isn’t much use in this case. Either way, you’re carting around a stupid USB hub and a bunch of wires.
Here is an advertisement for a company called Radiation. It’s from the sixties and suggests that in the seventies, you’ll be able to wear your phone.
It didn’t come as early as the 1970’s, but we NOW have wearable phones, if you count bluetooth headsets like the Jawbone pictured here. I personally don’t “wear” my phone, but there are plenty of people who do now. I used to look at the views of the future and be so excited about what my future would bring, but it never turns out like it did in the newsreels. Now that the future is here, I find myself looking at it and saying, “Meh…” 
