Monthly Archives: September 2003

general September 11, 2003 posted by

Disney introducing disposable DVDs.

Disney is about to introduce a series of these $5 disposable FlexPlay DVDs which self destruct after 48 hours. They actually turn from a readable red colour to an unreadable black colour once you take them from their sealed packaging. These EZ-Ds are supposed to compete with DVD rentals. I’m not totally convinced. But then again, I suppose if the price is right…..

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Truck camera…

So this guy has built a camera out of a delivery truck. He’s called it Peanut. It takes negatives that are 4 feet tall and 8 feet wide. He’s going to tour the US with it soon. No I’m afraid we have no idea, we just report on this stuff…..

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Accents galore…

The Speech Accent Archive is a fabulous little site with 278 speech samples in different ethnic accents. Hours of fun, believe me.

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Play on…

Today’s Japanese cute day, OK? This little Bandai 8 Portable Record Player [warning: Japanese site] plays little 3 cm discs with 4 minutes of audio on them. Er…it has a stylus and stuff, so it sounds just like a real record player, but shurely that can’t be right, can it? [via JapanInc]

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Roller derby…

Peeps, in the interests of fair and balanced reporting we bring you – a) The Roller Coaster Database, listing over 2000 rollercoasters around the world. and b) The Theme Park Insider Accident Watch, to help you make an informed decision.

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Pelham Sloan PC

The Pelham Sloan PS1500 is a Brit designer PC which features the computer in the screen. It actually looks quite good I think. Prices start at around $1300.00.

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Windows XP keyboard shortcuts.

A couple of useful sites which offer listings of Windows keyboard shortcuts. First one here and the next one here The latter also contains shortcuts for Microsoft Office products too, which is quite funky.

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Cutie pie…

Aww, diddums. Doncha just lurve this cute ikkle Takara car mouse? And now you can also get an ikkle car as an ATRAC music player. They both come under the M ChoroQ New Beetle COX banner, which is some sort of Japanese cult toy. $223.00 for the 64MB version.

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Pay to read

I’ve been meaning to post this story on ‘pay to read’ journalism for ages, but kept putting it off. Now I’m posting it, so there. For some reason I think it’s fascinating concept.

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Matchmaker.

Blogmatcher.com is ‘a program that helps people find weblogs that match their interests and find like-minded blogs.’ Actually it’s an online service rather than a program, but who’s quibbling eh? Hmm, and I’m not sure that it’s that accurate anyway.

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general September 10, 2003 posted by

Oh Brother…

The teeny Brother M-Print portable printer has just gone all Bluetooth on us. That’s right, you can now print your stuff out using any Bluetooth enabled gizmoid. Rather cool, what? Priced at around �250.00. I must say that, as someone who is happily using an Iogear Bluetooth wireless P2P network about the place, I am getting rather fond of this oft maligned little technology. As far as I’m concerned, it definitely works as advertised.

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Kiss away…

This lady has patented the kissing shield that she is holding in her hands. Some ideas are just too fabulous to forget aren’t they? ‘ So why, in this day and age, should we be engaging in unprotected kissing?’

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2GB SD cards

Whoa, so 2GB SD cards are on their way. Fab. This is rapidly turning into a race of SD cards and the rest (OK so compact flash, but it’s not so tiny is it?). And of course the price will come down eventually, Annabelle. I mean, the ability to store over 2000 good quality digital photographs on a credit card sized digicam? Weird and awesome!

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