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March 18th, 2009 | Tags: CES, fun, gadgets, green, head, iphone, mac, mobodojo, palm, portable, review, storage, technology | Category: Reviews | Its not often you meet the near-perfect, much less the perfect tool. While the latter still eludes me, I’ve found and have worked with the former now for about a month. True story: The dog ran off with the first one that my PR rep sent me and dropped it down a drain pipe. She very, very, very kindly sent me another one, and I’ve been eagerly working with it ever since. In case you’re not clear on what I’m talking about, I am referring to the LiveScribe Pulse digital pen. This is no normal pen, mind you. The Pulse is a wonder of technology, convenience, function, and familiarity. It does exactly what it suggests it will do, but it also does so much more.
The key to the functionality of the Pulse is manifold, but it can be counted down to the infrared camera perched under the nib (I’m old, so look it up), the voice recording capabilities, and the special paper the pens use in order to work their magic. Now don’t go groaning over the fact that you have to buy special paper. Have you seen what a simple notepad costs at Barnes & Noble these days? Shocking to the point where you’ll think that paying $20 for a 200 sheet notebook which enables the power of the Pulse is a steal and a half. Combine that with the fact that the most recent Windows version of the software can print blank pages, and you’re on easy street.
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January 15th, 2009 | Tags: accessories, CES, green, head, mac, mobodojo, Opinion, review | Category: Reviews |  Coffee is a precious resource, rich in go juice and vitality for the day to come. Getting that coffee used to be as simple as getting a cuppa jo’ at the local diner. Nowadays, its a raucous affair, rife with pitfalls and madness in the form of 7,046,876* different combinations of a myriad drinks being served by frazzled college folk working on their PhD thesis who only speak Coffeenese, which you don’t happen to know. Its nice, now and then, to just sit down at home, turn on the TV, flip to an HD channel, and enjoy a nice, hot, freshly ground, freshly steamed cappuccino. It takes a machine, however, to do that. That’s why here, I present a review of Breville’s Café Roma espresso machine.
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June 15th, 2008 | Tags: CES, drive, green, hardware, iphone, ipod, life, mac, mobile, portable | Category: Opinionation | A sea change is welling at the source, and Microsoft is not in a good place to weather it well. Now, before you start tossing rocks in my general direction, I’m not going to suggest that Microsoft is going away anytime soon. After all, anywhere from 96-84% of all PCs in the world (depending on who you speak to for statistics) is running anywhere from Windows 95 to Windows Vista. Part of the problem, however, is that most of them are running Windows XP and Microsoft doesn’t want that. No, indeed. Its no surprise that Vista isn’t doing well, mostly because it sucks and people know it… okay, so Microsoft itself doesn’t seem to get it yet.
Where, then, does Linux come into the picture? Do you see all of these tiny little lappies hitting the market? OLPC started it with their little green bug and kicked it into gear when they started offering the Buy-Two-Get-One deal where one goes to a child in a 3rd world country and you get the other one. ASUS saw something in that and ponied up the Eee PC, a tiny little lappy with a 4GB solid state hard drive and an eensy weensy price tag. Buyers freaked and they flew off the shelves, and other fabbers took notice and made their own. They are called MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and are meant to be companions to your online life.
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December 3rd, 2007 | Tags: awareness, child model, education, fox news, green, Green Gear, human rights violations, mobile, nicholas negroponte, olpc, pet project, running water, social, status symbol, stock portfolio, three minutes | Category: Uncategorized | Nicholas’ Negroponte’s pet project, the One Laptop Per Child model XO-1, has been given the green light, and Peru is apparently jumping on board right away with a 260,000 system order. Good for them (if they can clean up the rest of their human rights violations). Right now, however, you can make a difference in the [...]
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