Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Pebble. E-Paper Amazingness

April 18, 2012

I just pledged for one of these. It looks amazing. I am not getting a colour one, just the jet black, and I  feel, it is my duty to tell all society about this.

What started as a $100000 kickstarter project now has 3.5 million dollars backing and will ship come September 2012, all still with 28 days of pledging to go.

The watch isn’t touch screen like my MNML Lunatik but instead crazy functional. To the point where I just couldn’t speak, and it integrates with your iPhone (or Android, whichever your persuasion).

What’s that?, Your phone just sent an email that was important, via Blue tooth to your ‘Dick Tracy style’ awesome watch?

I just cannot get over this one. Yeah, I could go and buy Sony’s new Android watch for around the same price but this watch interacts with my phone.

It should be a goodie, I will do a full review when it ships come September. An remember there are still plenty of pledges left, so you should go and get one.

New About Pandainabattlesuit Page

January 13, 2012

This is it, I have written it as a post then made it a page, should you guys wish to refer any friends here, and they say – “well what’s it really all about? “- “who is this pandainabattlesuit?”

You can now refer them to the infromations links, and the about page.

which looks like this

Whilst it may look personal and intimate, this website site is a cleverly put together collection of personal and anecdotal experiences and reviews, of  ’non-hipster’, ‘psuedo geek’, and ‘nerd tech’ parents’ every day lives.

Included are stories from self indulgent me, stories from friends, experiences, product reviews, design high-lights, and very poorly recreated re-enactments of every days happenings, carefully constructed in Microsoft paint.

Oh and of course, features of stories from my favourite websites, and blogs from around the world.

Whilst traffic is small I do appreciate my reader ship,  and welcome any feedback, or cookies/cakes you wish to send me.

Please enjoy, take the humour or opinion with a grain or 500 of salt.

Thank you for reading, as I realise this is truly a form of Narcissism.

Kind Regards,

Luke

@pandabattlemode

I hope this is helpful. Probably not, but I figured I should provide some background.

Ron Moss, Beyond 2000… It was all true.

April 16, 2011

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I just didn’t believe it at the time. I don’t know why. Some thing about a balding ‘caesar type’ character aka. Ron Moss telling me, that’s right telling me that I would be using only a card to pay for things electronically.

Then on top of that telling me that I would be possibly getting to work on a jet pack and that we would do all work once at work on ‘personal computers’. Pffffft. What ever Ron Moss. If that is your real name. I suppose you are also going to tell me that there is no prototype hover board and that michael j fox was held up by strings. Yep. What ever.

Now I typing this on a tablet pc with more intuitive thought than most of the life guards at Sydney Olympic park and better design (totally arguable and just for emotional value and not my honest opinion) than Raymond Kappe and Frank Lloyd Wright put together actually no, I went too far. ‘Fallingwater’ cannot be beaten.

iPad is amazing. We have just purchased the iPad 2 after selling our quad core intel pentium core 2 q6600.

I am very happy with this choice.

With it went a 22″ screen. Why did we need a 22″ screen in the first place? Who knows? Prob just cause the man said and 22″ is better than 10″ right?

Now we have no wires. Not even from our modem router to the media centre (still AMD) now with six terabytes because it became surrogate for the drives donation from the HP but still ver much needed.

God help the world when apple catch up and invent a useable wireless NAS that is as easy to plug and play as me syncing photos between iPad and iPhone in 3 taps.

This simplicity is what the world needs. I don’t care that I am locked in, restricted to millions of apple only apps. Nor do I care that I can’t get turn by turn for free hacked. Nor do i care that I have to use iTunes as the host for iPhone and iPad. What I care about is when I want to use my iPhone as a phone it is just and only that. When it is a camera it is just and only that. But when you reach inside it’s magic hat of tricks the rabbit your pull out is not white. It is every colour you want and more.

I just saying iPad 2 is probably even better than I thought it would be. More functional than a pc on a non intricate level. My whole family can use it. Even the smallest 17months old. And I know for a fact her Nanny will be able to use it.

This really did turn into a rant. Wow sorry.

What I am trying to say is the rare occasion I do carry cash and the rare time at work where I do use a wire connected device to access the internet and the rare rare times I do use a skate board with wheels makes me think. Ron Moss I am so sorry. Your were just so right. About everything. We even have GPS. And it is inside our phones which are wireless. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. I just rang our children’s grandparents with a video phone last night on in electronic device not as big as a warehouse and it was with video feed and only slightly bigger than a piece of paper.

I am sorry for all the times I said “yeah right, sure Ron Moss sure well have reversing cameras in our cars”.

Technology is amazing. People should take a little more time to understand it. I think that is what is holding it back. The haters if you will. Just embrace it. I know all you “67.5ers” love those forward emails. And that’s all twitter is smaller faster versions of forward email, a current affair, a good mews channel, and the police scanner.

I have just ranted and raved and done all sorts of poor analogies and 3rd person speaking and I haven’t even mention technology’s beautiful design. That would of course be a post on it’s own.

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Simplicity. Pure Simplicity.

April 9, 2011

Maybe except for the embedded pen and the ultra post modern design it would be classifed as simple.

John’s Phone is a beautiful and simple alternative to total tech immersion that is what you get with current smartphones.

 

we are hoping to review one in the flesh now that we have seen these beautiful people.

 

Every one in our team wants to have the most up to date tech products but also along side this urge grows one to regress into our shells and use purely functional bare necessaries.

 

Either way you go yourself. this phone is beautiful in another way.

 

 

 

the model pictured is the uprated business version that includes an address book (paper) in the back and a pen that is hidden like a stylus.

truly cool.

Buy it here

When windows fails in windows

March 27, 2011

Seen this the other day.

Thought it was a bit ironic that windows had failed in a window display.

good old windows. Can’t hate on Win 7 though. It has performed well and really impressed me. Doesn’t stop me from wanting to change to Apple though.

Guess its easy to take technology for granted, (even win 3.1) and not check whether it is taking care of business or not.

So the Note to self is, check all aspects of your shop if you are rocking technology because this is a real distraction even takes away from what your place of business is sell.

 


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