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Category: Cool Tech

  • Vidyo on the Apple iPad2

    Damn this is great!   Friend Czoli from Vidyo shared this on Google+ today. I have said this a thousand times before: Video conferencing anytime, anyplace, anyone. Vidyo (see my getting old review of Vidyo here). — —

  • Barnes & Noble Introduces a New Nook

    Surfing the Internet today I spotted this article from the NY Times stating that a new Nook eReader has been introduced! Very cool. Here are some basics of the $139 eReader: It is WiFi only, it uses e-ink technology so glare will not be a problem, the entire display is touch screen, they claim the…

  • Google Chromebooks

    Google Chromebooks

    Samsung Chromebook   Acer Chromebook   Google announced today the availability of their new Google “Chromebook” laptop like computers that will be at Best Buy and Amazon.com starting June 15th. These are laptop like devices that connect to, and use, the “cloud” for everything you do. They are pricey….anywhere from $350 or so to almost…

  • Memolane: An Introduction

    Jonathan Yankovitch posted an email on the Coworking group with a link to Memolane. I clicked on the link and……saw something REALLY cool! If you have been reading my blogs, you pretty much know that I consider Twitter and Facebook as too temporary.  You post something, and somewhere between 5 seconds to a day later,…

  • Cisco Flips the Flip

    I ran across this article in the NY Times this morning and found it interesting. Why is it interesting? I’ll tell you why:  In 2007, the Flip camcorder was the latest cutting edge technology.  It sold like hot cakes, and the big players came out with their own versions. 2007 was 4 years ago.  Yikes!…

  • Heytell Push To Talk App on iPhone and Android

    Been hearing a lot of buzz about Heytell, so I decided to give it a whirl. Interestingly, I forwarded the information to Kristen and she, surprise surprise, wanted to give it a try with me! She downloaded the app on her iPhone, while I downloaded it on my HTC Aria android phone.  We both stayed…

  • QR Codes

    Ever see one of those square barcode like looking thingys? I had one hanging on my door from Google Places, but, I did not know what it was or what to do with it. It looked cool, so I stuck it up there. So what the hell is it? Well, finally getting curious I did…

  • Future of Video Conferencing from Corning

    Got this Youtube link in an email this morning….although it is a Corning glass “infomercial” it shows us (at least partly) how video conferencing might evolve in the near future…using glass. VERY COOL. We already have videoconferencing on mobile smartphones, and on large walls in conference rooms, so the vision put forth by Corning, although…

  • iPad 2 and Video Conferencing

    UPDATE January 2023: A HISTORY Lesson from 2011……enjoy! Steve Jobs (YES!) announced today that the iPad 2 will be released March 11th. I went to the spec page, grabbed the screen shots,  and tried to learn a bit more about the cameras (yes there are now two) and video conferencing capabilities. The iPad 2 will come…

  • Facebook Video Chat

    Facebook Video Chat

    UPDATE Dec 2022: A History Lesson 🙂 I tried video chat (video conference) via Facebook about a year ago…it sucked. Now…the good folks at PCMag.com tell me that the co-founder of RealNetworks, Rob Glaser, has developed a new Facebook video chat (video call) application called “SocialEyes”. Very clever name. But it remains to be seen…