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I have a Qualcomm QCP-1900, so I'm more worried about damaging the floor if I drop it...

Sigh. If only I could fit my cell phone into my pocket.

You just need the right size pockets.

As someone who carries his phone in his pocket instead of his purse I disagree.

Sigh. If only I could fit my cell phone into my pocket.

I can one-up you. I did tech support on the real original iPhone seen here. I sometimes wish I kept the demo model I had from back then for nostalgic purposes. Wonder if anyone still has one that works?

And people scoff at my 14 year old Qualcomm QCP-1900. I'd send them all an SMS of Death, if my phone could send text messages... (sigh) Still. Try defending yourself from a mugger with a Droid or iPhone - hah!

You know, I purchased one of these made by Kensington a few years ago for $0.75 at a retail store (not a garage sale), new in the box. Only because I thought it was the most ridiculous mouse I have ever seen.

I had forgot all about it until I read your post..... I'm going to have to go look for it and hook it up for a good laugh

it was InfoGear, who were later acquired by cisco, who later used the same trademark to launch another, unrelated product under the linksys brand. There's a whole blurb about it on the iPhone's wikipedia article. While I never bought any of the products in question, they all seem to have been available from the usual channels at their time of launch.

A search for "iPhone" turned this up: http://web.archive.org/web/20010207002902/www.uioa.com/productcatalog/

Here's the description:

"The revolutionary iPhone is a fully integrated telephone and Internet device with a built-in touch screen to bring the world of the Internet into your home or office with the touch of your finger. It includes exclusive services and all the most popular telephone features like caller ID and call blocking, along with an Internet dial-up using PPP and e-mail access with multi-user mailboxes.

What can you do with an iPhone?

• Send and receive e-mail
• Make phone calls
• Shop online
• Surf the Internet
• Read the news
• Check the weather
• Review sports statistics
• Access movie information
• Trade stocks
• Bank online

And all of this can be accessed with the touch of your finger, while talking on the iPhone."

Sound familiar? Apparently this was the 2001 iPhone.

Here is the original iPhone. Infogear was purchased by Cisco in 2000, hence they inherited the iPhone name. I used to do tech support for these iPhones back in the day so I did feel some nostalgia when the name was revealed for Apple's new product. Infogear iPhone

Well, the InfoGear iPhone was a $299 phone that could web-surf using a dial-up ISP. Maybe you'd like a page that has a picture of the device: 7.4" black and white touchscreen with a pull-out QWERTY keyboard. Oh, and it cost $4.95 a month to use with your own ISP, or $24.95 per month with a provided ISP. Search Google for "InfoGear iPhone" for even more. This was the device for which InfoGear registered the iPhone trademark. Cisco's re-use of that trademark for such a wildly different product (a Skype phone) is desperation: trying to capitalize on the buzz around the name "iPhone" which was generated through rumors about an Apple product, not the original InfoGear iPhone. Apple simply didn't have a choice to trademark iPhone ahead of time, because (AFAIK) you must use a mark in trade (i.e., offer a product for sale) before you can file for a trademark.

Yesss!!! The Art of Electronics is all you need to start with, in fact is "All You Need" (r). From there on just play yourself, experiment, read, burn capacitors, have fun!.

There are tons of more or less detailed projects in internet, ask Mr. Google

For a starter's microprocessor kit, I'll go fo Arduino it's cheap (22 euros plus shipping), all included (no need for a programer), and it's Open Source (well, that's slashdot, what else could you expect?;-).

If you're after audio look into DIY Audio & Video the cricket amp is a good starter project, and sounds nice (provided you do have an electric guitar). Or may be you prefer to assemble your own mp3 player or this other .

If you're after radio applications, ARRL is your place to go.

If you like robotics, the list is endless, try Kronos Robotics, DIY robotics (in UK), BEAM walkers , etc.

And for lots of ideas,as well of lot's of references, read Make , or just keep reading slashdot ;).

Stock cue VISUAL: cliptage, splitscreen, cut in bridge-melder, Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere depthunder (today MAMP, Mid-Atlantic Mining Project), spaceover (today freefly-suiting), transiting (today Simpson Acceleratube), digging (today as everyday homimage with autoshout).

Like in Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner (1968)? Hmm, nope, not yet. Wake me up when it's news.

Overall, between the PS2 and the Dreamcast, there is not as significant a difference in graphics quality as you might expect. Sure the PS2 can handle more polygons on paper, but when you actually see games side by side, the difference is not what you'd expect given the hype ... and the price=2E "How do you explain this?" you might ask. Well, just like an Apple running faster at 450MHz than a Pentium III running at 700MHz, it's the way the system is using the processing power that matters, not just the raw numbers. You can't simply count polygons, memory, or megahertz, since each system uses its resources differently, and much of the efficiency comes from the way that programmers utilize these resources. Apparently, the PS2 is not that easy to program, while the Dreamcast has proven to be a big hit with developers. Titles for the PS2 will clearly get better in the long run, as programmers exploit more of the system's resources, but here and now, it's almost dead even.

Where the Dreamcast really breaks away from the PS2 is with the modem and Net access. Right out of the box, the Dreamcast not only acts like an Internet appliance capable of surfing the Web, but it's also capable of head-to-head online gaming. I connected over the Net using SegaNet (but any ISP will do). SegaNet is a full ISP you can use for Dreamcast or PC for $21.95/mo. Within 10 minutes out of the box, I was playing NFL2K and Quake III Arena against randomly chosen opponents without a hitch. Even at 56K, the games were incredible. I lost, naturally, but I enjoyed losing so much I kept going back for more. Anyone who buys a Dreamcast and plans to play online should get Quake III Arena - it's no fun alone, but over the Net, it'll get your blood pumpin' faster than Dick Cheney on Election Day=2E

--They also forgot:

o The SparQ 1GB drive
http://www.streettech.com/archives_hardware/SparQ. html

CDs don't play in a tape player, even though both mediums contain the same music. should we crack the CDs so it will play in a tape player too?

Yes! We should. Here's one way to do it.

i've often thought about how societal acceptance of the levels of modification could take place. what seems a likely initial vector would be quality of life issues. from there it could/would snowball. why not rewire some of your bodies reactions, capabilities, etc. or even sprout wings

other works in science fiction have touched upon future worlds/societies where those with unmodified genes were considered inferior and or puritans. some kind of singularity would probably occur. isn't this one of the things post-humanity is all about?

Been there, done that

MacPerl may be needed for pre-X Mac OS, but what's the point of running a port of perl to a legacy environment? The "real" perl runs on Mac OS X without any porting. Why anyone would waste time and resources running it under Classic is beyond me.

The point is people will be using Classic for years. I know musicians who are still running OS 8. Heck, I know schools that are still running System 7.

I have X, but I can't stand using it because:

• It's slow, even on my 733 Mhz G4. Try organizing files in Finder's list view. Yuck. I can't believe Apple added so much eye candy (for purely marketing reasons) that their new OS is slower than the old.
• The dock. Enough said. There's lots of articles on why the dock is less powerful than ye old application menu/Apple Menu/tabbed folders, etc.
• I have lots of apps that won't run natively on X. I have lots of other apps that would require expensive upgrades to run natively on X.
• I have a fairly new printer, but there are no OS X printer drivers, and likely won't be.
• I find OS X's interface patronizing. Everything takes up more screen real estate. It's bright with stripes and huge child-like candy buttons. It's not very customizable--you can't even change the system font.

Just booting into X, I feel like my Mac's turned to molasses. I can do everything I want in 9 more efficiently and faster. I'm a big proponent of the "select an operating system that's STABLE, rather than bleeding edge.... come up with a suite of Pretty Good Software.... Do NOT come back for at least five years" meme. I hope X does get better, since I do want the power of Unix. I just don't want to make so many sacrifices to get it.

But I can't find it!!!

Not in ebay, not in yahoo, not in amazon... heck, I even found a review here,but the company they link to, Aimslab Inc seems to have banished... and they were the manufacturers!!! Maybe they didn't sell enough of those? :-)

So, before you fork the money, make sure you can actually get the thing... and tell me where you found it :-)

And... no, I don't have an "real" TV :-)

If you got the money to spare (probably still at least $300) the Stokke Variable might be something for you. You can read more about the chair in this Stokke Variable Review.

I had the oppurtunity to use one in a part time job which at times involved a lot of data-entry work and once I had gotten used to the chair I really came to like it. You sit in a semi-kneeling position that keeps your back straighter and also has the added bonus that you don't have to scrunch up your intestines (yes, it matters :).

Unfortunatly it's a bit pricey for me so I have to make do with excercise instead and I really need it since I'm prone to get bouts of sciatica (because lacking curvature in the lower spine). Of course the best excercise is the one you keep on doing but apart from that swimming is really good since the only stress you put on you body is the one you generate yourself and it really gives you an all round excercise.

Gareth Branwyn's Street Tech site has reviews of a few of the programmable remotes. No rip-n-read press release fluff, but real, "I used this and here's what's good and here's what's bad about it" kinds of reviews. Most of the ultra-programmable remotes are indeed rather expensive, but I know I've probably spent that much on just random remotes looking for just one that'll let me program my VCR again.

Here's what Street Tech had to say about the Webzter Jr, the cheapo PC by Microworkz.


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