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I’ve been hearing a lot about “open hardware” lately, but I have not been seeing many actual products. There is the OpenMoko, which I think qualifies, and a few other project, but I have seen a lot more headlines than results.
The one I am really waiting for is Bug Labs. I have talked to someone [...]

Like so many other web workers I have had to deal with communications “bankruptcy” (not my term, but one I’ll use for now). I’m not at the point when I am going to delete all my emails and start over- I’m not nearly important enough for that anyway- but I can see my email habits [...]

I finally broke down and bought a Wii. I’ve been going back and forth on it for a few months now and I had the chance to get one so I decided to go ahead and do it. I am not 100% sure why I bought it as there are not many good games out [...]

Straight from the UK, the Pico-ITX motherboard arrived on my doorstep today. I’m rounding up the parts now, hoping to have a complete system setup within the next week or so.
Now to find a case…

http://upnext.com/
This is something I have been meaning to write about for a couple of weeks now. It’s a new NYC-based startup that features a 3D mapping application. It’ is basically a 3D map of Manhattan where each of the building can be clicked on for a description. You can find your favorite restaurant and some [...]

Just a quick note- I have been noticing a lot of portable dictionaries from Japan and Korea lately a number of them look incredibly cool. I can’t see why anyone would need something that is just a dictionary now, but a lot of them look just like a UMPC that I would like to own. [...]

Media Temple’s two main hosting services, for the past few months, have been the Grid and Dedicated Virtual (dv) hosting. The Grid is their cloud system that takes the place of shared hosting, but is super scalable and can theoretically host any size size. The dv is a virtual system on a shared server, but [...]