Benjamin Higginbotham of Technology Evangelist takes a look at the Amazon Kindle after 12 hours of use. More in-depth reviews as he uses it more and more will be coming.
After our last post on the Optimus Maximus there were a lot of questions regarding how it works and whatnot. We answer many of these questions including the most important one: who would buy a $1,500 keyboard? More info at http://www.artlebede v.com and http://www.technolog yevangelist.com
Yes, it is finally here and I got to play with one! It's the Optimus Maximus keyboard and it is working... It's real... It's here... It's $1,500 USD. More info at http://www.artlebede v.com/everything/opt imus/
The hackers at buglabs.net have come up with a really interesting lego-like hackable computer. The base unit is a Linux box with additional modules that can be snapped on. Not for the faint of heart, not only is hacking encouraged, it's required!
While not shipping yet the much fabled Sling Catcher was on display with a working demo at CES 2008. The new Sling Catcher and Slingbox Pro HD will work together which will be uber cool.
Technology Evangelist attended Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton's press conference today where he announced his support for the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S.2917) introduced by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). If you find this video valuable please let us know in the comments or by linking to it. We request your help spreading the word about this important topic.
This is the second day of the 2006 Consumer Electronics show, and with it our second video update is now available. We have interesting conversations with Sanyo on their 720p handheld cameracorder, talk a bit about BluRay, and end with Wireless services for everyone via mobile WiMax.
Sling Media has announced a new Slingbox that allows place-shifting of 1080i HD content. Gone is the old Windows CODEC and now we have a Slingbox with h.264. Very cool little box, and very sleek.
Ben talks to Doug Little from Wacom Technology about their very impressive pen displays. This takes tablet computing to an entirely new level with much higher precision than previous tablet inputs. Find out more at www.wacom.com
I met with Juniper a couple of days before we went out to the truck for completely different reasons. Being that I am an IT super hero by day I actually activley work with networking gear.