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Musical Wine Glasses, Play Notes With the Tip of Your Finger
Of course, so simple.
Intuitive LED clock by Vadim Kibardin
Vadim Kibardin created this clock containing only figures with no casing. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface. A light sensor will switch the clock to white at night time and black at daytime.
Hello Little Printer, available 2012 (by BERG)
Almost 21st Century version of those vacuum tubes department stores and banks used.
Lytro Light Field Camera, Photos Can Be Focused After They Are Shot
Absolutely incredible that this exists, just blown away. Reminds me of the Esper photo analysis machine Deckard uses in film Blade Runner.
![Joby GorillaPod Micro 250 / 800 [model number references camera weight supported]
Click through to see the folded view, unbelievably small and unobtrusive. Want.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lshtt4S8SY1qzqp7lo1_500.jpg)
Joby GorillaPod Micro 250 / 800 [model number references camera weight supported]
Click through to see the folded view, unbelievably small and unobtrusive. Want.
Engadget on the death of HP's webOS devices
My take
In some ways I get the announcement HP made this week, if your phone hardware sucks [which it does] give up. It still however, left me with a feeling of disbelief.
All you had to do was make one good phone. A solid phone. The OS was golden, just take the torch from Palm and just package it in something good.
However HP followed Palms lead of launching subpar hardware, the day before Apple announced something which moved the goalposts yet again.
In the same vein, don’t announce products months before you are due to release. If you do, dont then miss that deadline. When my Twitter stream went off this week that the Pre3 was onsale - I thought it had been out for months, I couldn’t believe it. You have to follow Apples lead, announce then launch shortly after.
And what the hell was the Veer? Who was that really for.
Ok, HP may not have sourced the Pre/Pixi keyboard but they didn’t have to carry it on. I expressed my displeasure for the keyboard previously. But despite all the tweaks they made to the Pre3, sleeker design, bringing it up to average build quality, they KEPT THE SAME DAMN KEYBOARD - salvaged from an 80s carphone bin of leftovers I suspect.
You even had the drop on Microsoft, who for a long time were flapping around, even they have managed to haul together a competitive OS and claw in some nice hardware design in the Nokia deal. You could have been sitting pretty at #3 in the OS stakes.
Rant Over
I quite fancied getting a WebOS device but I couldn’t get past that damn keyboard, yesterdays specs and the horrible build quality. As said in the article and in analysis all around the web, what is going to happen to WebOS? It’s parent company cant make it work who is going to take it on. Its going to rattle around with Symbian.
The whole thing smacks of corporate mismanagement and a “that’ll do mentality”. They bought something without fully knowing what to do with it. A $1.2B dabble in the mobile space, but hey you’ve got some patents so that’s, uh, you know, something.
How Back To The Future II predicted the future, what it got right and what it got wrong - pocket-lint.com
I wouldn’t have guessed we’d have managed to tick so many boxes before reading this article. I’d still be a little happier if we had managed the fruit bowl from the ceiling, hoverboards and self fastening trainers/sneakers.
