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Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine
How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? - (37signals)
$10 USB Power Outlets Sound Like a No-Brainer - Usb power outlet - Gizmodo
Now this is a no-brainer! Not only does it make sense from a end user point of view, but it will save a tremendous amount of the resources that go into making the plug end of chargers that come with all phones and other electronics these days! Bravo!
This looks like some powerful stuff! Imagine being a kid with an iPad rocking this in math class… #futureoflearning
Watch out TI-82!
A proximity sensing T-Shirt… this revolutionizes oh so many childhood games. Tag. Hide-and-seek. Hell, even duck duck goose would be a funny one to watch with these t-shirts!
Worth a watch!
[and available at the ThinkGeek store ]
Quick take-away: I hope not!
I think that the iPad is a wonderful device. I do not own one but am just waiting for the second iteration to come out because a camera, better design, and a device with kinks worked out is what i REALLY want.
That being said, I have also been waiting to see if a quality, equally (or sub) priced tablet on the Android platform would emerge. Recently, on woot.com there was an Augen 7” Color Touchscreen device for ~113 incld shipping. I thought about it but in the end of the day its no iPad. And that is a dangerous place to be for Android Tablet’s.
“Not an iPad” is similar to the “Not an iPod” statement that has been said ad nausium for the past decade. All those companies making devices that play music that were well… lacking.
I like the Android platform (as a user) and think it has tremendous potential for growth and improvement. I think Android phones have avoided being classified as “Not an iPhone” BUT I definitly think the statement that a tablet is “Not an iPad” will be the theme for the next decade.
[an aside… this => I’m buying more $AAPL !]
Below is an excerpt from a well written post by Matt. This has all I have been able to think about with regards to what people have been saying about $aapl today.
BUT, maybe the devil is in the details here. More precisely, the devil is in the presentation.
While I haven’t seen the video of the preso yet, if it was presented at all like Matt put it, there would have been a wow factor.
If Tim Cook said, “we are making it so every blind person can use our device with ease,” I would have said, “Holy Shit, awesome!” He didn’t. Stock dipped. People complained. At the end of the day, you know what? Its just a device… WTFC.
The thing that also got glossed over as well is the implications that Siri and iOS 5 has for the vision impaired community. For the first time ever, they’ll have the same capabilities as those of us able-visioned people, without the need of expensive braille readout devices or proprietary apps. The ground has been leveled. And that’s huge. Apple should be commended for their contributions to society in this regard.
But what happened? We got caught up complaining that the new iPhone didn’t have an aluminum back and bigger screen, or that it wasn’t called the “iPhone 5”. Who the fuck do we think we are? Apple just presented yet another mind-blowing device with mind-blowing features. I think we’re spoiled little brats. We anticipated features that weren’t going to exist. And when those imaginary features weren’t announced, we were disappointed.
Need I remind you of the capabilities and features of a phone from 25 years ago?
Today I dropped my daughter off at school for the first time in more than two weeks, great family time.
As I was walking past 6th Ave I looked south and noticed the Freedom Tower. Wow, great progress since I last took this route way back in 2011. In the morning light, the lights in the still exposed upper floors twinkle majestically.
Crossing the Avenue, as the tower started to disappear behind other buildings I was left to wonder, “What is there left to build?”
I was not around to see the bridges of NY be built, or the Tunnels, the Empire State building, the Interstate system, or even the Twin Towers. These were all great feats of engineering. And I fear that not many of their kind will be undertaken in this country in the foreseeable future.*
The engineering feats of my and future generations lie not in structural and visible feats, but more in the digital and scientific realms.
I am an engineer of the 21st Century. Building the future of media consumption. What it is? Totally unknown, totally up to people like us to build. Media giants have no clue what the future will hold, no idea what consumers want, no idea what the next step is. Another example of the Internet being a great equalizer. This is a huge opportunity, one that I can’t stop thinking about and look forward to waking up to every single day.
* [to argue this point you could say that we are building a tremendous new Aquaduct and Su way line under New York, which is nothing short of amazing. I’ll admit that.]
